Category: Nature
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Tourist strokes cheetah by swimming pool in South Africa
Many of us would steer clear of a cheetah encounter, but not for this tourist. Gareth Poley, a digital and media creative director from Auckland, New Zealand, was filmed stroking a tame cheetah as it sipped water from a game reserve’s swimming pool in South Africa. See The Telegraph
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Frolickers get wiped off Australian ocean rocks by massive wave
About 100 people were knocked off an ocean rock platform they were standing on when a massive wave hit on Saturday. The event, which was captured on a GoPro by Instagram user Jakee T, occurred at the Figure Eight Pools in the Royal National Park in Sydney. See Mashable https://youtu.be/AkXpTTNE81g https://youtu.be/4sfgvfKlGf8 When a rogue wave…
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Revolutionary system promises to recover plastic rubbish from world’s oceans
The scale of the problem facing the world’s oceans first struck Boyan Slat during a summer holiday to Greece when he was 16. Instead of colourful fish in azure waters, his abiding memory of the trip is of plastic debris on beaches and in the waves. Now 21, the Dutch entrepreneur is planning to deploy…
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Swimming the Newtown Creek in New York City
A three-and-a-half mile, nearly three-hour swim through one of the most heavily polluted bodies of waters in the country can leave you feeling gross.
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Diver Gets Close Up View of Killer Whale
A lucky freediver had an unprecedented close-up view of a killer whale’s MOUTH as it chased fish beneath him. https://youtu.be/vz_5oMEryhQ
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Beasts of the deep: Swimming with the underwater Big 5
Done the famous Big Five of Africa — lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros? What’s next? Time to swap the khaki shorts and binoculars for diving suit and swimming goggles in pursuit of five other giants in Asia-Pacific. Found in the oceans of Australia and islands further afield are some of world’s most iconic endangered…
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Seal Rides a Whale
Watch the moment when a seal jumps on to a whale and goes for a ride! Captured off the Baja Peninsula of Mexico while on a whale watching tour.
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Divers get a close view of an attacking Great White
Lucky shark cage divers got a close view of a Great White in Gansbaai, South Africa
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Shark attack at beach: Shark bites swimmer ‘to the bone’ in attack off Florida beach – TomoNews
An unidentified 28-year-old female tourist was wading through waist-deep water off Florida’s Cocoa Beach near Cape Canaveral at about 3 p.m. on Sunday when, NBC News reports, a shark fin came up out of the water and slapped her across the face. https://youtu.be/_DmGxVyFdTM