TransparentSea, an awareness campaign highlighting coastal environmental issues, recently embarked on the first phase of their California journey from Santa Barbara to Baja, Mexico. The group focuses on cetaceans - whales and dolphins - and the waters they inhabit. Their current mission traces the southern migration of the California Grey Whale along said route. more ›

16-year-old solo sailing adventurer Abby Sunderland arrived home to Southern California today, and held a news conference in Marina Del Rey. "Sunderland recounted the terrifying moments, talked about what she had learned and responded to criticism of her parents during the hourlong news conference," according to LA Now. more ›

Abby Sunderland's unsuccessful attempt to circumnavigate the globe solo aboard her sailbot, Wild Eyes, and her Indian Ocean rescue have raised criticism among the public that her parents had ulterior motives for their 16-year-old daughter's voyage, and that they were foolishly endangering their child by allowing her to pursue her ambitious goal. more ›

Ashore and expected to be reunited with her family in a few days, 16-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland has talked to the press regarding her thwarted attempt to circumnavigate the globe solo. Sunderland told the AP that comparisons of her to other teens are unfair: "I think that a lot of people are judging me by the standards they have for their teens and other teens that they know … and thinking 'she's exactly like them...They don't understand that I've sailed my whole life and I do know what I'm doing out there," (via LA Now). And that spirit of exploration still has the Thousand Oaks teen enthralled: "I don't know when or how I will, but I'm pretty sure I will one day sail around the world." more ›

Recently, Abby Sunderland endeavored to cross the world on a boat, her voyage cut short, she said, due to "one long wave, and one short mast." Shipwrecked 2,000 miles off the coast of Australia, the 16-year-old Sunderland was saved by a French fishing boat who snatched her out of the Indian Ocean, delivering the young explorer to safety. more ›

"Crazy is the word that really describes everything that has happened best," wrote 16-year-old Abby Sunderland in a blog entry composed on a French keyboard aboard a fishing boat on choppy waters in the Indian Ocean. more ›

16-year-old Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks has been rescued from her disabled boat about 2,000 nautical miles off the coast of Western Australia, according to the LA Times. more ›

The 16-year-old Thousand Oaks teen trying to sail around the world alone was spotted and found to be in good condition. While in the rough seas of the Indian Ocean yesterday morning, Abby Sunderland set off her emergency beacons, prompting a search and rescue missions while the world awaited news of what happened. more ›

16-year-old Abby Sunderland apparently set off her emergency beacon this morning, prompting a search for the Thousand Oaks teen who is attempting to sail around the world solo. She was in the Indian Ocean -- the place she was warned to be the most difficult -- when she lost contact while talking to her parents over the satellite phone. An hour later, the Coast Guard called the family to say her beacon was set off. Sunderland's last blog entry from yesterday was titled A Rough Few Days. She departed from Marina del Rey in January. Her brother Zac completed the journey last year. more ›

After many weeks of struggling with problematic equipment on board the Wild Eyes, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks announced she will be making a much-needed stop in Cape Town, South Africa, which will bring to an end her attempt to be the youngest person to complete a non-stop, unassisted solo-circumnavigation of the globe by sea. more ›

He did it! 17-year-old Zac Sunderland left Marinda Del Rey on June 14th, 2008 (he was 16 then) to journey across the world only to make it home today. That's a 28,000 mile trip for the Thousand Oaks native who saved up $6,000 for his 36-foot Intrepid sailboat. Although he has beaten records, a younger sailor is already trying to beat him with a faster boat, but Sunderland shrugs it off knowing someday his record will be beat. Next up? "I'm hoping to set off on my next adventure soon — Mt. Everest or down to the Arctic Circle," Sunderland said. KCET's SoCal Connected has been following him with web cam interviews throughout the late spring. more ›

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We rely on the kindness of strangers to show us their version of Los Angeles. Today, via Outdoors Club, we met a member of the Fairwind Yacht Club (a very cool organization if you like sailing, but don't own a boat) who took out a group of folks on a breakfast cruise. And here is what we saw... more ›