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A conceptual image of what Bertish will be crossing the Pacific Ocean on. Image: Tom Servais
Chris Bertish is about to do something that could be viewed as crazy. He’s going to cross the Pacific on a hydrofoil board with a wing. Alone. If all goes according to plan, he’ll leave the coast of California from Half Moon Bay in June, wing across the Pacific, and end up on Oahu in July. He’s estimating it’ll take him around 50 days, completely unassisted.
Bertish is an incredibly accomplished human being. He’s done more in his life than most, and he’s done those things because he simply refuses to quit. It’s an old cliché, but the saying “failure is not an option” could have first been uttered about him. He’s a champion big wave surfer, a stand-up paddle world-record holder, a waterman par excellence, an author, a motivational speaker, and a staunch environmentalist.
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a hydrofoil and you know under two hours hour and a half and the cooperation with cuba is so fundamental to u.s. security from everything from narcotics trafficking to environmental concerns and across a number of other issues and so that has been i think very positive over the last couple years to actually have us in cuba thorstein down and talking about issues that affect both countries as part of the announcement last night the secretary torsen and i was that the u.s. will no longer be sending official delegations to cuba as well so any of these talks if they re going to continue to occur must now occur even in either washington or potentially in a third country all right times there are changing jason marsac he s the director of the latin american center at the atlantic council thanks for talking with us today. german police are hunting
bill: something went wrong, miller, with the drones. i will tell you one thing about the drone, it voted for bernie sanders. i saw a press conference with the drone this afternoon. and he said that footage was fake news. he said that the reporters who were present made that footage up to make him look bad. here s another thing, billy, that is a foreign-made drone.s.t this is a job american drones won t do anymore. i have started a protest site, #notmydrone. and i am wondering, how far down the road have we gone with ups guys, they must really hate running that 8 feet up to the front door with a package that we have now gotten to the point that we are taking the ups truck, in the middle of the delivery, it converts over to the hydrofoil out of this james bond film, like thunderbolt. i m walking up to the door. you mean we have taken the powers of modern technology and we have gone back to carrier pigeons? bill: i like my ups and fedex guys. i don t want there to be drones. come on