There was nothing ordinary about 17-year-old Maya Merhige’s recent swim in New Zealand. In March, the American teenager swam the 13.7 mile-long Cook Strait, which separates the north and south ...

Just as he found the teenager, who, exhausted, was struggling to hang onto his own board about 75 yards from the shore, Lyu saw the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter cross the mountains towards Cannon ...