April 22
Surfer Dan Moore (left), 48, won the Billabong XXL award for the 68-footer he rode at Jaws last December. After a wipeout Moore said he felt like a gecko "when a person steps on it."
May 22
Robert Miller's Mari-Cha IV (left) will chase a 100-year-old record (12 days, 4 hours) in the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge, which started at New York City and ends at the English Channel.
May 29
The third Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon, the highest 26.2-mile footrace in the world, starts at 17,149-feet at base camp and descends nearly 6,000 feet to Namche Bazaar.
June 3
Opening nationwide, Lords of Dogtown, the fictionalized version of Stacy Peralta's 2001 documentary, features Heath Ledger (left) as the mentor of a group of scraggly skaters during the 1970s.
June 12
Some of the world's largest great white sharks gather less than 30 miles from San Francisco Bay, but that doesn't stop 1,500 athletes from swimming there in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon.