The open ocean has always made room for imagination. For centuries, sailors swore they saw monsters bigger than ships, smarter than people, and hungry enough to pull a crew straight off the deck. No ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

Everyone loves a good sea shanty. Wonderful songs of alternating solos with a chorus. This well-recognized genre was initiated by sailors who helped pass the time during incredibly long voyages by ...