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American Summer

Issue No. 25

American Summer

Saltwater Inheritance: The Beach Traditions That Shape Who We Become

Editor's Picks

The stories worth stopping for.

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Water Bound

Water Bound

A lifeguarding injury ended one career and a GoPro started another. John Starrett on springs, sea turtles, a rare rainbow snake...

Lulu Gribbin Stronger Than the Tide

Lulu Gribbin Stronger Than the Tide

For millions of people, the beach is a place to feel alive. It's estimated that more than 143 million people visited Florida...

Eglin: The Giant Next Door

Eglin: The Giant Next Door

Aircraft overhead. Longleaf pines beyond the bay. A look at Eglin Air Force Base and the community woven into Northwest Florida...

Hooked for Life

Hooked for Life

From a first tug on the line at four years old to the world's most-watched fishing show, Josh Jorgensen built BlacktipH into an...

Where Legends Ride

Where Legends Ride

Eighty surfers, one 300-yard stretch of reef, and a name that came off a construction sign. Inside Pipeline with a lifeguard, a...

Through the Lens of the Sea

Through the Lens of the Sea

A mining injury ended one career and started another. Ray Collins on shooting waves at their apex, why Hawaiian water behaves d...

Finding His Voice

Finding His Voice

American Idol passed. The Voice put him on Team John Legend. Then the pandemic sent Jared Herzog home to 30A — and a text from ...

A Conservationist's Eye

A Conservationist's Eye

Marine photographer Ben Hicks on sea turtles, microplastics, and 25 years of telling the ocean's story with as little processin...

Oceana's Crusade for Coastal and Oceanic Preservation

Oceana's Crusade for Coastal and Oceanic Preservation

Balloon bans, offshore drilling, and 350 remaining right whales—inside the largest advocacy group devoted solely to the ocean.

Sunken Treasure: Wendy Mignot's Shipwreck Coin Jewels

Sunken Treasure: Wendy Mignot's Shipwreck Coin Jewels

A family that raised its kids at sea, a Spanish galleon lost in a 1641 hurricane, and the leather-and-pearl jewelry that ties t...