Category: Nature
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Golden Retriever’s Underwater Swim Captured by GoPro
Divers have been using underwater cameras for many years, to capture a glimpse of goings on beneath the surface. Of course, these divers have traditionally been human. With the help of GoPro cameras, however, dogs can now also become like underwater tour guides. Far from engaging in the sort of rough splashing that can be…
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Meet the girl who dives with great white sharks
A quick internet search for ‘girl dives with sharks’ will throw up the name Ocean Ramsey. This will surely contain videos of her swimming alongside great white sharks, as well as images showing her close interactions with marine life. But there’s more to this girl than that – a life spent in the ocean has led…
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Blue-green algae forces organizers to cancel Great Ohio River Swim
So much for this year’s Great Ohio River Swim. The event, originally postponed to Saturday because of blue-green algae in the river, has now been canceled, according to event chairman Brewster Rhoads. “Given that recreational contact health advisories issued … in early September remain in effect, we do not want to take any chances that swimmers could become ill…
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Diver swims with whale shark off San Diego coast
A free diver swam with a whale shark off of the San Diego coast. Emily Callahan is a graduate from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and says this is an extremely rare occurrence. Callahan said whale sharks are almost never documented in Southern California. See ABC10 News
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Dolphin retrieves phone for a lady after it fell in the ocean
Recently, Teressa Cee, a dancer for the Miami Heat basketball team, was visiting the Blue Lagoon Island resort in the Bahamas. While lounging on a floating platform, she asked a man to hold her phone for a moment. He accidentally dropped it into the water. That might have been the end, but a local dolphin…
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Great White Shark ‘Swallowed Whole’ Man Free Diving Off Australian Coast
A man who was free diving with spear fishermen off the South Australian coast was “swallowed whole†by a great white shark. During an inquest hearing into the death of 28-year-old teacher Sam Kellett, witnesses described the February 2014 shark attack that ended his life. “It made me turn around back out to sea and…
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Firefighters rescue cow trapped in a swimming pool
British fire and rescue crews responded after a farmer reported a cow was stuck in his swimming pool.
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Incredible drone footage captures two huge whales swimming alongside paddle boarder
A drone camera has captured stunning footage of two huge whales as they swam alongside a paddle boarder in the crystal-clear ocean. Jaimen Hudson wasted no time in heading down to the beach with his drone after realising the magnificent creatures had been spotted off shore, close to his house in Esperance, Western Australia. Upon…