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July 25, 2015 by Joseph Simonds

One of our personal favorite “Boating Strong” videos was “How To Dock A Boat Like A BOSS” (must watch here if you haven’t seen it).

And ever since then, we have been looking for a boating video (and a captain) that could match it…

Well, I think we found him.

This guy somehow managed to find himself in some nasty surf near San Francisco.

Here are the details:

This video was shot by Pete Koff in San Francisco Jan 19th 2013
The boat was a 35ft Donzi boat, the hull did get damaged and there were some pretty serious injuries on board. The owner just put $500 of work into the boat.
The wave is approx 15ft, so you could imagine how hard it came down the back of the wave. The boat stalled out for about 2 min after the jump, then jammed back into SF Bay like a champ.

Check it out!

Related Video: “$500,000 Catamaran Goes Extreme Surfing” (watch it here)

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Original video here: https://vimeo.com/58283259

July 21, 2015 by Joseph Simonds

When I first saw the thumbnail to this video, I really did think it was an oil spill. I had just never seen anything like this on a beach (or anywhere for that matter).

But no, this is the largest bait pod of anchovies ever!

Here is the info from the video:

An aggregation of anchovy amassed near Scripps Pier at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego in La Jolla, Calif. on July 8, 2014. Footage from Scripps Pier by Scripps staff and underwater by Scripps graduate students Julia Fiedler, Sean Crosby and Bonnie Ludka

Pretty cool where you can actually see either a shark or a human in the middle of each circle in the huge pod.

Kind of reminds me of the Florida mullet run.

If you never saw that video, “The Craziest Mullet Run Ever Captured On Film”, you must watch that one next here.

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July 9, 2015 by Joseph Simonds

These guys are WAY too calm to be standing up on paddleboards chasing a great white shark around!

I think most people would have been laying down on their board and looking for the closest beach.

But thanks to Courtney Hemerick and the Current Crew team of extreme paddleboarders, we all get to experience what it would be like to be just a few feet away from a great white shark while standing up on a paddleboard.

And like I have said numerous times this week, it’s almost as if the sharks know that it is shark week!

Well done sharks!

Related Video: “Great White Shark Gets Photobombed By Another Great White On Film!” (watch it here)

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June 10, 2015 by Joseph Simonds

This paddleboarder’s famous last words…

“It’s going to be real interesting when this thing gets up to the surface…”

Yep, we couldn’t agree more. Which is why you will only see me catching inshore catching snook, redfish, and trout from a paddleboard.

And for those of you that have never tried paddle-boarding before, know that it isn’t that easy to paddle board out in the ocean without losing a little balance every once in a while, let alone fight a big thresher shark (probably why this paddleboarder sat down a few times).

But he does stand up on his Hobie paddleboard a few times while fighting this shark, so color me impressed.

Note: The paddleboarder in the video is Jared Lane, of Fastlane Sailing Center. He is using a Hobie SUP, and this footage was near La Jolla, CA.

Jared, you are certainly Salt Strong my friend.

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April 12, 2015 by Joseph Simonds

Can you imagine going out for a nice boat ride off of California (This was filmed off the coast of California, between Ventura and Anacapa Island) and coming across a 30ft whale carcass?

I think just seeing that alone justifies a pretty wild day on the boat.

But then imagine that while you are checking out the large whale carcass, a Great White Shark appears out of nowhere…

Talk about a wild experience!

Thankfully the crew from Ocean Defenders Alliance and Partial Pressure Productions had their GoPro with them to take this amazing footage.

After the Great White circled the whale a few times, it finally came in to get a few bites.

We call this “Fast Food” in nature…

Great White Shark = Salt Strong

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