Category: Nature
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Whale Seen in Video With Swimmers Dies off Australian Beach | Inside Edition
A sperm whale that became stranded on a sandbank at a popular beach near Perth, Western Australia on the weekend has died. Officials from the Parks and Wildlife Service of Western Australia confirmed the 15-meter (49-feet) long whale died Tuesday morning after it swam off the sandbank into open water. “It was moving pretty gingerly…
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Video Shows Large Whale Joining Swimmers Off Australian Beach | NBC News
Drone video captured a large whale that spent around an hour swimming with bathers off a beach near Perth, Australia.
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School Students Banned From Ocean Aquatic Activities After Shark Attacks | 7 News Australia
A controversial ban on school beach excursions over shark fears could be overturned within days. The snap decision is under urgent review after shark patrols were brought forward by two weeks.
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Man Says Otters Attacked Him While He Was Swimming in a California Lake | NBC News
Matt Leffers said that he was attacked by two otters in Placer County, California, while he was out swimming at a lake. KCRA’s Orko Manna reports.
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Diana Nyad Marks Anniversary of Epic Cuba-Florida Swim, Freeing Rehabilitated Sea Turtle in the Keys | AP
A decade after swimming the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West, Diana Nyad returned to the beach where she completed her epic feat, joining in the release of a sea turtle rehabilitated at the Florida Keys’ Turtle Hospital.
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Sheepdog Saves Stranded Ewes on Welsh Farm as Storm Babet Floods UK | The Independent
A sheepdog came to the rescue of three ewes who had been cut off by floodwater as Storm Babet unleashed floods all over the UK. Llyr Derwydd, 44, a farmer from near Ruthin in Wales, said he had gone to check on his sheep in Flintshire on Friday afternoon when he saw three ewes “stranded…
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Unbelievable Vision of Great White Shark Sneaking Up on Swimmer | Today Show Australia
The vision you have to see to believe: a great white shark creeping up on a swimmer in open water only to turn the other way.
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Shark Spotted in Between the Flags at Manly Beach | 7 News Australia
It’s a swimmer’s worst nightmare spotting a fin while in the water. That was the case for some with a shark lurking in the shallows at Manly.
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Dogs Frolic in Olympic-Sized Swimming Pool | SWNS
Pooches showed their owners how to doggy-paddle as they enjoyed a dip in an Olympic-size swimming pool. The annual dog swim at the Grade II-listed Sandford Parks Lido pool in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was attended by an estimated 1,800 dogs and their owners over the weekend.