A Hawaiian man completed what is believed to be the first ever crossing from the Big Island to Kauai on a stand-up paddleboard. It took five days alone at sea on his surfboard to cross the 300 miles of open ocean. He survived on dried foods and freshwater strapped to his board and slept on an inflatable mat that he’d tie to the top of it, occasionally getting awoken when a wave flipped his board and mat. He was treated for infected blisters on his feet, but was otherwise in remarkable condition. He wasn’t even sore - the hardest part, he said, was the mental anguish of spending five nights floating in the middle of the ocean on a surfboard.

An armada of stand-up paddlers circumnavigated Manhattan on Friday to raise money for autism. Each of the 150 paddlers had to raise at least $1000 to donate to the cause, which attracted even a few Hawaiians to fly halfway around the globe for the event. No word yet on how many of the paddlers contracted hepatitis in the crystalline waters of the East River.