PURAKAI Surf Clothing Blog

The Connection Between Blue Whales and Organic Cotton Clothing

The blue whale is the largest creature to ever roam the earth. They can weigh up to an astounding 330,000 pounds, which is as much as 24 elephants, and can grow to be longer than 100 feet. They are...

Freediving with Sperm Whales in Kona, Hawaii

The past two weeks I have had some of the highlights of my freediving/underwater photography career. It started with interactions with multiple pods of Sperm Whales over a few days. Then with two c...

An 11 Year Old Embraces Change - Unlearning What We've Learned

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...

Labor of Love - Freediving with an Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal

Meet B1819, he’s a five-year-old critically endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal born on the Big Island of Hawaii. Back in 2010 he had just turned three when he arrived in Kealakekua Bay.

Witness to a Tragedy: Finding Beauty in the Death of a Blue Shark

I went out fishing with my friend Colin Cornforth and his eight-year-old son Cameron. We took my 17’ Boston Whaler for rigged with everything from spear guns and fishing poles to my land camera and...

Five Reasons to Support Organic Agriculture

This article is in response to the article by Amy Waxman titled, GMOs May Feed the World Using Fewer Pesticides, she along with many others subscribe to the theory..

The Story of the Tiger Shark, Mahi Mahi Carcass & The Freediver

Returning from a morning snorkeling trip we entered the harbor at around 1:30 pm, when a lot of the other morning trips were returning. There was a gathering of people on either side of the harbor ...

My Patriotic Fourth of July Clothing and US Flag were Made in China?

It's truly amazes me that here on Fourth of July 2013 PuraKai Clothing has a project on Kickstarter to create Made in the USA clothing grown from USA grown organic Pima cotton.

5 Reasons to support Made in USA Organic Cotton Clothing Kickstarter

When we set out to create clothing "For the Love of Water" we didn't realize how relevant that tag line would become. The Love of Water came from the love of surfing, spearfishing, stand up paddlin...

Living the life you should be living, less time taking, more time giving

It was a year ago today that I had a Conversation with a Seal, picked up the book The Responsible Company, thought to myself " I may not be living the life I should be living, that I should be spen...