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  • Kids Swim With 40 Tonne Humpback Whale

    Kids Swim With 40 Tonne Humpback Whale

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

  • Florida manatees crowd out humans

    Florida manatees crowd out humans

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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,…

  • Gnawing sharks force Google to protect internet cables with Kevlar

    Gnawing sharks force Google to protect internet cables with Kevlar

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    If you have been experiencing painfully longer ping times or hair-pulling latencies in your internet, you might have to blame someone else other than your internet service provider. As it turned out, a shark had been angrily chomping on the underwater cables that ferry data across the continents. Over the past two months, ruptures have…

  • Beachgoers flee from brown snake at One Mile Beach in NSW

    Beachgoers flee from brown snake at One Mile Beach in NSW

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    Onlookers were expecting a shark when lifeguards blew warning whistles, but instead the 1.5-metre snake made its way to the shore from between the flags at the beach at Forster. Cape Hawke Surf Lifesaving Club president Paul Scott said it was unusual for a brown snake to be at the beach. “It’s odd to see…

  • Unexpected Shark Gives Explorer Shock of His Life

    Unexpected Shark Gives Explorer Shock of His Life

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    A National Geographic researcher is startled to see a Greenland shark where none has ever been seen before: off Russia’s Franz Josef Land. An underwater camera captured images of the shark, a species scientists know very little about. Watch this video on YouTube