Category: Nature
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13-year-old boy suffers ‘traumatic’ injuries after shark attack off California coast
A 13-year-old boy skin diving for lobsters was attacked by a shark Saturday along the Southern California coast but was quickly pulled from the water by other divers and flown to a trauma center, authorities said. The boy was in critical but stable condition more than nine hours later at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, spokesman…
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10 Secret Swimming Holes You Have to Experience
Swimming holes were thought to be great places to get in touch with the natural element within yourself. To prove it here’s a list of Secret Swimming Holes You Have to Experience 1. Tinago Falls, Philippines On days when the powerful Tinago Falls is slow enough, one of the Philippines most stunning waterfalls is also…
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Why is there an Arctic beluga whale swimming in the Thames?
The people of Tilbury in Essex received a shock this afternoon as a beluga whale was spotted making its way up the River Thames. The mammal was seen off Coalhouse Fort near Gravesend and Kent’s Shorne marshes, where ecologist Dave Andrews tweeted his sighting. “For anyone twitching the beluga, it’s been feeding around the barges for the last hour and hasn’t…
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Cape Cod National Sea Shore Looking For New Ways To Protect Swimmers
Cape Cod National Sea Shore is looking for new protection for swimmers from sharks. WBZ-TV’s Bill Shields reports.
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Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean
The sharks’ annual pilgrimage to the mid-Pacific region from the coasts of California and Mexico has baffled scientists for years, not just because it is so far away — it takes a month for the sharks to get there — but because it seemed, on the surface, to be lacking the kind of prey or…
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Shark Attack Kills Cape Cod Swimmer in His 20s: ‘It Was Like Right Out of Jaws,’ Says Witness
Massachusetts saw its first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years on Saturday when a male swimmer died in Cape Cod. In a Facebook post shared Saturday afternoon, the Wellfleet Police Department announced that a male swimmer in his mid-20s “was bitten by what is believed to be a shark†around 12 p.m. at Newcomb Hollow…
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Swimming Through the Wall of Sharks
The pristine waters of French Polynesia draw visitors from all over. Turns out grey reef sharks are pretty fond of them, too—so much so that the Island of Fakarava’s southern pass is called the “grey shark wall.†Fancy a swim?