Category: Nature
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Children’s Hospital Patients Swim with Dolphins to Leave Worries Behind
Anastasie Abboud, 10, suffered permanent hearing loss and still has other issues after a large statue fell on her head when she was 4 years old. She later became one of seven patients at a San Diego children’s hospital with the unique opportunity to spend one-on-one time with dolphins, leaving all their worries behind.
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Perth free-diver Julia Wheeler swims through three tonnes of rubbish in Bali
A Perth free-diver has described the ‘real life nightmare’ of swimming into approximately three tonnes of rubbish floating in the ocean. Julia Wheeler, 31, was horrified upon encountering the mass of human waste products including plastic bags, bottles, wrappers and containers that were trapping and suffocating marine life. The competitive freediver, who can reach 50m depths…
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Health officials: Don’t swim at Collier County beaches
In Collier County, thousands of people are still without power, and as a way to stay cool, some are hitting local beaches.
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Locals Swim Through Flooded Streets After Tropical Depression Maring Hits Quezon City
Locals in Quezon City were forced to swim through flooded streets after Tropical Depression Maring hit Philippines’ Luzon island, leaving many areas waterlogged. This footage shows West Riverside, a street in the San Antonio barangay (neighborhood) of Quezon City that was flooded with nearly three feet of water, judging from a scrawled marker written on…
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Great white shark rescued, goes for a swim in Manly pool
A baby great white shark has been rescued after washing up on Manly Beach in Sydney’s north. The shark washed ashore around midday and was unable to return to the water, floundering in the shallows. Several members of the public tried a number of times to help the shark back into the water but were…
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Irma hurricane aftermath: Havana turns into one big swimming pool
The 125-mile-per-hour hurricane which tore through the Cuban coastline on Saturday, turned Havana into one big swimming pool.
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Seven sharks found in basement pool in New York
Lagrangeville, New York police found seven live sharks and three dead ones in a basement pool inside a home. The sandbar, leopard, and hammerhead sharks were between two and four feet long. According to the Associated Press, “marine wildlife experts took blood samples and measured and tagged the sharks before transferring them to the Long Island Aquarium…
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Anthony Quinn Bay, Rhodes, Greece – A beautiful place for swimming
If you are going to visit a beach on the island of Rhodes, you must visit what is now known as Anthony Quinn Bay, is a beautiful place for swimming. Only a few kilometres from Rhodes Town on the road aptly called“EO Rodou Lindosâ€, or road to Lindos! You first come across Anthony Quinn Bay.…
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Sharks Found Swimming Inside Dutchess County Home
State wildlife officers made a bizarre discovery in a Hudson Valley home. They pulled 10 sharks out of a basement swimming pool. TV 10/55’s Richard Rose explains.