Year: 2021
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Catching up With Olympian Amanda Beard | KING 5
Olympian Amanda Beard now lives in Gig Harbor and has created a place for the next generation of swimmers.
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Hong Kong Swimmer Siobhan Haughey on the Tokyo Olympics, Her Historic Silvers and Future Plans | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey, fresh off her legendary performance at Tokyo 2020, spoke exclusively to the SCMP’s Patrick Blennerhassett about the experience of winning not one, but two medals at the Games. Haughey dived into describing her preparation for the Olympics in Hong Kong pools, the plan of attack she used for races, and…
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Meet the Bomb Hunters Trying to Protect Marine Species in the Baltic Sea | Euronews
An EU-backed team of scientists has a very thrill-seeking mission: to find all the unexploded war bombs in Germany’s coastal waters and other European countries.
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Volunteers Scour Marseille’s Beaches for Plastic and Beer Bottles | Euronews
Volunteer organizations are trying to tackle the ongoing littering problem by promoting regular cleaning drives, where people can pick up as much as one tonne of garbage in a day.
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Eleven European spa towns honored by UNESCO
Towns from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Czechia got together to seek joint recognition.
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The Lethal Beauty of the Portuguese Man O’ War | Laughing Squid
In a fascinating clip from the BBC documentary Blue Planet II, narrator David Attenborough elegantly explains how the beautiful but incredibly lethal Portuguese Man O’ War catches food underwater with its tentacles while still remaining partially above the surface.
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Profound Short Film About a 90 Year Old Balinese Fisherman Who Catches Plastic Instead of Fish | Laughing Squid
“Voice Above Waterâ€Â is a profound short film by Dana Frankoff that gives voice to a 90-year-old Balinese man named Wayan who turned his lifelong profession of fishing into one of cleaning the river of plastic pollution so that future generations will once again be able to fish and provided for their families.
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