Category: Nature
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Jonathan Bird’s Blue World: Freediving with Karol Meyer
Jonathan travels to the island of Bonaire to take a course in freediving from Karol Meyer, a world-champion freediver. Soon he learns how to hold his breath and dive—with no scuba tank!
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15-foot Oarfish Spend Last Moments Swimming With Tourists Off Mexico
See for instance Indian Country and Examiner An oarfish in Mexico was filmed by tourists as it swam right up to the beach. After being turned away gently from the beach sand with a paddle, the 15-foot oarfish swam under a kayak, continued to swim around the Mexican tourists, and eventually disappeared. The oarfish and human encounter was caught…
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A Tale of Two Atolls
Save Our Seas Foundation’s director of conservation and National Geographic Magazine photographer, Thomas P. Peschak, has always been fascinated by the ocean. He has spent much of his career as a scientist and and photojournalist searching for a pristine marine wilderness. He discovered his “holy grail” of marine environments in a remote section of the…
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Human remains found in search for woman ‘taken’ by large shark in Australia
See CNN A cap and goggles belonging to a 63-year-old woman presumed to have been “taken” by a large shark while swimming off the coast of Australia have been found, along with human remains, police said Friday. The search for Christine Armstrong was ongoing Friday morning, New South Wales Police said in a statement. Armstrong…
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15 Divers Took Turns Swimming With Dying Tiger Shark To Save Its Life
See Sunny Skyz A dying tiger shark off Australia was nursed back to life by divers who took turns swimming with the shark for one and a half hours in an effort to keep it upright and to get oxygen into its gills. Just as the conservationists were about to give up, the shark kicked,…
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Police officers held drowning bull’s head above water for 3 hours
See ABC Action News, via Arbroath “I saw big nostrils going underwater and staying underwater with water blowing out,” Ammons said. An animal lover herself, she didn’t hesitate to jump into the retention pond to rescue the bull. “I stripped everything off that the sheriff’s office really cares about,” she joked. “And then I got…
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The Sailfish’s Dance In Action
We where lucky and found lost of this magnificent hunters in plain action, unfortunately for me, my underwater camera had some leaking and I decided to leave it on the boat. Fortunately, my friend Carlos Mendieta was kind enough to lend me his Go Pro Hero 3 Camera, which we used to take several shots…
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Sarah Lee – Water Photographer: Capturing What You Can’t Control
Water photographer Sarah Lee loves the unpredictability of nature and creates art that captures the interplay of people, water, and light. Unlike other forms of photography, where pixels are painstakingly crafted, Sarah embraces what she can’t control and uses her photography to find beauty in the chaos.
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Swimming cat from Watford enjoys water-based physiotherapy
See Watford Observer When a Watford couple told their vet they were going to treat their cat’s broken leg with swimming lessons he “almost killed himself laughing”, however the unorthodox therapy has proved just the ticket. Ra, an Egyptian Mau, had an accident last October and fractured his left femur. The rare breed has been…