Category: Nature

  • Nico the dog rescues swimmers from rip current in California

    Nico the dog rescues swimmers from rip current in California

    Two people have a brave dog, Nico, to thank for their rescue after rip currents swept them out about 100 yards off the shore at a Venice County beach in California. Nico’s owners adopted him about six months ago and say he had no prior ocean experience before they got him. Once the grateful, exhausted…

  • Indiana farmer saves freezing baby cow with hot tub swim

    Indiana farmer saves freezing baby cow with hot tub swim

    A central Indiana farmer jumped into a hot tub with a shivering baby cow to save the calf’s life. Carroll County farmer Dean Gangwer tells WRTV-TV he thinks one of his cows gave birth in the snow and that he found the barely breathing newborn in a snowbank this week. The third-generation farmer says he decided the…

  • Sea Lion joins family on Santa Barbara kayak

    Sea Lion joins family on Santa Barbara kayak

    A family visiting Santa Barbara from Orange County had an unexpected visitor on their kayak, a sea lion pup!! Rodney and Lisa Gist and their three kids spent more than a half-hour with the pup on the back of their kayak on Valentine’s Day. They say it’s a holiday they will never forget. Courtesy of…

  • Kids Swim With 40 Tonne Humpback Whale

    Kids Swim With 40 Tonne Humpback Whale

    Kids Swim With 40 Tonne Humpback Whale http://youtu.be/RHC4ckYcFTM

  • Florida manatees crowd out humans

    Florida manatees crowd out humans

    Florida’s Three Sisters Springs got a little crowded this week when more than 300 manatees swam quickly into the springs, prompting park officials to close the springs to human swimmers and kayakers. See CNN http://youtu.be/YT6XjS6t0yw

  • Brainless Animal Turns Out to Be World-class Swimmer

    Brainless Animal Turns Out to Be World-class Swimmer

    Jellyfish do not have bones, a brain or a heart, but what they do have is incredible swimming skills, finds new research. Jellyfish can detect the direction of ocean currents and swim strongly against them, according to the study, which is published in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology. The research adds to…

  • Jordy the dog dives 12ft under water

    Jordy the dog dives 12ft under water

    Our chocolate lab Jordy swimming like a fish in the Smith River (near Crescent City, CA in a small town called Hiouchi). He taught himself how to dive down deeper and deeper to get rocks. This as deep of water he’s ever been in and went straight to the bottom. Courtesy of Bryce Lund on…

  • Laguna Beach man paddle boards with Orcas

    Laguna Beach man paddle boards with Orcas

    A Laguna Beach man took a chance on a tip and ended up paddle boarding with a pod of orcas as they made their way along the coast. Rich German heard the orcas were heading south off the coast of Long Beach. The next day, he got on his paddle board and went out into…

  • Mekong swimmer ‘drowns’ in trash

    Mekong swimmer ‘drowns’ in trash

    Six months after Frenchman Remi Camus ended his six-month, 4,400-kilometre swim down the Mekong River in Vietnam’s Tien Giang province last year, he has returned to seek partners for his initiative to collect rubbish dumped in the world’s 10th-longest river. While in Ho Chi Minh City, the 30-year-old former restaurant manager attended the VietWater exhibition,…