Category: Nature

“Everyone out of the water” is the order being given by lifeguards in Newport Beach, after a shark bit a swimmer yesterday. The woman is recovering from bite marks. Jeff Nguyen reports.

Landlocked Luxembourg has among the cleanest swimming spots in Europe, an EU-wide water quality auditi has found. Luxembourg topped the ranking in the report released on Wednesday, recording “good” or “excellent” water quality in all 11 of its outdoor wild swimming holes. The tests concerned bathing water at the Remerschen swimming lake in south-east Luxembourg,…

Unlike most people, the children of a Thailand tribe see with total clarity beneath the waves – how do they do it, and might their talent be learned? “When the tide came in, these kids started swimming. But not like I had seen before. They were more underwater than above water, they had their eyes…

Spectators at the Xixiajou Wildlife Park in China were horrified to watch a 3,300 pound walrus killing two people. The first was a tourist, a man from Liaoning in Northeast China, who was visiting the park and lost his footing, falling into the walrus pool. While hugging the man, the walrus inadvertently pulled him underwater,…

The sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, is most likely to be seen in British rivers at this time of year as the adults swim upstream to spawn. They are remarkable creatures but good looks are not one of their attributes. They resemble an eel and have a permanently open mouth with a great number of teeth. They also have…

A diver who was bitten by a bull shark while free diving for cobia is being treated at the hospital, fire fighters say. Terri Parker reports.

Sweetings Cay is a world of magical caves and uncharted territory. Although I have visited the place for years, in 2015 a small hint sparked my obsession with its history and potential. In this video a brief glimpse over my solitary quest and exploration, some of the results. Since then more work and more tunnels…