An unexpected close call at this year’s Canberra Balloon Spectacular in Australia, sent a couple of kayakers into the water. Watch here.

A young man spotted a struggling dog in a freezing-cold pond behind his home in Chesapeake, Virginia, and he jumped into action.

A couple of kayakers had an unforgettable experience in Shark Bay, and now a half-million people and counting are enjoying it, too.

A kayaker became wedged in some shallow rocks, and it was in that moment that he caught a glimpse of a wolf peeking out from the trees.

A kayaker in Alaska’s Resurrection Bay had a close encounter with two killer whales when they approached him, then nearly ran right into him.

Some kayakers in Costa Rica had a front-row seat as a whale launched itself out of the water and came crashing back down. Watch here.

Young Indigenous paddlers have completed the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River since the removal of four dams.

A whitewater kayaker went over a huge waterfall, Palouse Falls, on purpose, dropping nearly 200 feet. Watch the footage here.

When a kayaker saw a 14-foot alligator enter the water and move toward her boat, she wasn’t sure if she was terrified, excited, or both.

A kayaker and angler had one of the “wildest experiences of his life” when he came upon a 13-17-foot mystery fish. Watch here.