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  • 1 week ago | paddlingmag.com | Maddy Marquardt

    There are plenty of very real and very frightening shark and kayaker encounters caught on film, but these recent viral videos aren’t among them.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Maddy Marquardt

    'I thought I was going to die': Londoner's shark attack terror as she flies home from Caribbean holiday for emergency surgeryRachel Smith, 26, was left needing plastic surgery after the horrifying attack A Londoner has spoken of her terror after she was mauled by a shark in …

  • 1 week ago | hellostranger.substack.com | Maddy Marquardt

    I’ve been logged off lately — between work and the weather getting nice, I’ve been spending most of my time outside of work reading, writing with a pen and paper and typing it up later, going for long walks or short runs, propagating my plants, and out on the water paddling! It feels like summer has really actually started and come next weekend I’ll be in full summer swing! I’ll be going part-time in my job at Paddling Magazine, making more time for some classic Midwest travel and focusing on...

  • 2 weeks ago | paddlingmag.com | Maddy Marquardt

    When most twenty-somethings set out to travel Europe, they do it with a backpack in hand, trainhopping while visiting museums and bars. John Coyne and Liam Cotter set out with a different kind of European odyssey in mind. Departing from Dublin, Ireland on September 5, 2025 and finishing in Istanbul, Turkey on the Black Sea on April 25, 2025, the pair kayaked from Ireland to Asia, joined by Ryan Fallow in Germany.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Maddy Marquardt

    3 hours agoTürkiye: CCTV captures dramatic traffic accidents in western TürkiyeSHOTLIST: KUTAHYA, TÜRKİYE (MARCH 19, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. CCTV FOOTAGE OF TRUCK AND MINIBUS COLLISION THAT KILLED ONE PERSON 2. VARIOUS OF AFTERMATH OF COLLISION KUTAHYA, TÜRKİYE (MARCH 12, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 3. CCTV FOOTAGE OF TRUCK AND PASSENGER BUS COLLISION 4. AFTERMATH OF COLLISION (TWO SHOTS) KUTAHYA, TÜRKİYE (RECENT, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 5. CCTV FOOTAGE OF CAR HITTING PEDESTRIAN 6.