Dispatches

After the start of The Ocean Race was delayed until 2021, due to Covid-19, the 11th Hour Racing Team decided to relocate their new IMOCA 60 sailing vessel from France back to the team’s home base in Newport, RI. Outside TV rides along on their transatlantic voyage.

5min

In the rarified air of the world’s wildest mountains, alpinist Graham Zimmerman has seen firsthand the effects of human-driven climate change on the world. He has seen glaciers recede, winters become shorter, and weather patterns become more volatile. As his eyes have been opened to the irreversible damage that humans are doing to the planet, he has been forced to acknowledge that he is complicit in the destruction of these places that he loves​. Despite his own carbon footprint, Graham decides that he must take action and joins Protect Our Winters, an advocacy group that enlists him in the fight against Climate Change. In doing so, he starts down the path of advocacy in an increasingly turbulent world. A world that will challenge him in many ways, not least of all by asking if he can accept​ his imperfections to become an effective advocate.

21min

For the last three years, Ben Gravy researched and chased some of the smallest and most obscure waves in the country with one rule: it had to be a wave other people could surf. He surfed rivers, lakes, pools and oceans, and on August 12, he surfed the Alaska bore tide, checking off his 50th state. When Ben first started surfing novelty waves, it wasn’t his mission to become the de facto novelty wave guy, he just had a good time doing it. The search and ensuing excitement of standing up on waves in obscure places is what fires him up. But as he surfed more of them, he saw his same elation reflected throughout the surfing community. Ben had stumbled onto something he loved and wanted to pursue, and the surfing community rallied around him. So he decided to surf a wave in every state. Along the way he met like-minded surfers, helped spread the sport to new places and filmed it all on his daily vlog. Chasing waves is nothing new for Ben. He has been interested in two things his entire life: surfing and filming. Even before reaching the age of 10, Ben was filming himself, his brothers and friends doing Jackass-like stunts, skating and surfing. Ben grew his home movies into a popular YouTube channel coined NUB TV with almost 200,000 subscribers. The channel culminated in a 10-episode MTV show that was picked up, and then canceled just before filming started. At the same time, Ben seriously injured his knee filming a stunt and it served as a reality check for how he was leading his life. He became sober, started a daily vlog which has continuously grown over the years, and decided to focus his energy on spreading his love for surfing by bringing it to communities all over the country. Ben’s goal is to inspire others to follow their dreams and to show it’s possible to achieve exactly what you want. But he doesn’t want to just show the highlight reel. For Ben, it's important that he is honest and transparent with his fans. Ben is living his dream but it still has highs and lows. He shows it all on his Vlog. He documents his daily life for others to see how he achieves his goals, and to hopefully inspire those watching to achieve theirs as well.

8min

What does it mean to be connected to our food? What is the balance between taking life and giving life? Based on the North Shore of O’ahu, IMPRINT is the story of two souls, whos lives have intertwined with the ocean. Shane Hamamoto, who has lost the ability to spearfish and dive, from barometric trauma now expresses his passion for the ocean through Gyotaku - the traditional art of Japanese fish printing. Alishiya Holland, young spearfisherwoman from the Big Island of Hawai’i, has taken her love for the ocean to support her family and as an outlet through nature. She recognizes that she is growing up in an age of abundance and grocery stores - the aching unnaturalness of modern amenities has had her resort back to the thrill of the hunt. We follow her life as she navigates the taboos and rewards associated with spearfishing.

9min

Two former Special Ops Marines leverage their water survival skills and combat experience to help big wave surfers increase their physical and mental capacity by putting them through intense underwater training.

10min

Canadian fly fishing guide Ken Bibby invites his wife on a remote steelheading trip for their anniversary.

5min

Evil Knievel saw something special in the snake river canyon that runs through Twin Falls, ID. He attempted to jump the canyon in 1974. At over 1500ft the gap was preposterous. Needless to say he didn’t make it and deployed a parachute shortly after leaving the ramp. A little over 10 years later 3 former paratroopers decided to test the parachute capabilities off the Perrine bridge which at 486ft high, spans over the Snake river. They did static line jumps using military surplus parachutes. Now BASE jumpers from all over the world flock to Twin Falls, ID to jump this bridge, the only legal base jumping bridge in the United States. It is because of this reason that Sean Chuma calls Twin Falls home. He started a business here teaching BASE jumping and offering Tandem BASE jumps to anyone willing to strap themselves to him.

5min

A tough and spunky northern Minnesotan woman sets out to finish the Arrowhead 135 winter ultramarathon, one of the top 50 hardest endurance races on earth, to prove to herself and her daughter that Type 1 Diabetes can’t keep them from achieving their goals. Will she be able to manage her blood sugar, keep her insulin pump from freezing and finish a race that less than 200 people have ever completed on foot?

10min

When a group of women from across the world meet in the small coastal Icelandic town of Ísafjörður to sail to Greenland for a ski expedition, they never would have expected what would happen while out to sea.

10min

In today’s episode, we’ll catch up with ultrarunner Coree Woltering as he attempts to break the fastest known time running the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin. But first, champion freediver Kimi Werner was seven months pregnant and apprehensive of the effect motherhood would have on her career. She took a trip to the island of Jeju in South Korea to meet her heroes, a group of freediving and fishing women often regarded as Korea’s first working mother’s whose culture dates back centuries.

10min

Little 500 is the largest intramural event in the country. Each year 25,000 students gather to watch 33 student bike teams sprint 200 laps around a 1⁄4 mile race track in Bloomington Indiana. The students and coaches that participate in this event train year round without professional facilities, equipment, scholarship or salary. This begs the question, “Why do they do it?” This short documentary would aim to answer this question by exploring the drive and desire through the lens of one team. . . the Cutters.

10min

Seven months pregnant and apprehensive of the effect motherhood would have on her career as a professional freediver, Kimi Werner took a trip to the island of Jeju in South Korea to meet her heroes, the haenyeo – a group of freediving and fishing women often regarded as Korea’s first working mother’s whose culture dates back centuries. Expecting her first child, Kimi will explore how the haenyeo represent feminine strength and resilience as a self sufficient sisterhood of diving mothers and grandmothers. As Kimi transitions from a solo underwater adventurist to a mother cultivating a family, she longs to learn from the haenyeo elders - many of which are well into their 70’s and continue to dive. Join Kimi on her journey in Lessons from Jeju, where she gains a deeper understanding of what it means to pass on her own legacy and learns motherhood for a professional athlete isn’t a roadblock but instead a path forward.

13min

Paul ‘Bas’ Basagoitia won the inaugural Crankworx and grabbed a top ten finish at the 2014 Red Bull Rampage, Paul was pushing the edge of freeride mountain biking. At the 2015 Red Bull Rampage, his final ride at left him paralyzed. Trey Humphrey served our country and stepped on a IED in 2010, losing both of his legs. Having discovered the freedom of riding e-bikes on their own, Paul and Trey met on the trails of Lake Tahoe and now advocate for e-bikes as adaptive gear and trail access for riders.

6min

An all-female team sets out to reduce its impact on the human-powered adventure. Taking place in one of the most beautiful locations in the world. No fossil fuels. Human-powered BASE jumping through the heart of the American desert.

10min