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Category: Nature

  • You can’t make this up

    You can’t make this up

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    An amazing compilation of HD video clips shot by PADI Instructor Drew Roberts at Utila Dive Centre Kill only time · Take only memories · Leave only bubbles

  • Stingray pulls off most awesome photobomb ever

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    This photo was posted by Redditor epic767 and quickly entertained the rest of the web with its hilarious perfection. Via Mashable

  • Sailboat crew encounter a dolphin “superpod”

    Sailboat crew encounter a dolphin “superpod”

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    “It was about an hour’s sail south of Capetown, cutting through the water on Mike’s 110-foot sailboat Pangaea, when “it” appeared. At first, on the horizon, we noticed what appeared to be a giant ball of bait fish. The water boiled for literally a mile in every direction…only as it approached at the speed of…

  • Dillards & ECO SWIM Make a Difference

    Dillards & ECO SWIM Make a Difference

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    Dillard’s offers its customers a brand new sustainable swimwear line called ECO SWIM by AQUA GREEN. Together they co-hosted beach cleanups to not only talk the talk, but walk the walk. Awesome! Dillards & ECO SWIM Make a Difference from ECO SWIM by AQUA GREEN on Vimeo.

  • Octopuses outsmart marine scientists

    Octopuses outsmart marine scientists

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    When University of Cape Town researchers lowered a specially-designed “baited” camera into False Bay to film life underwater, they had not reckoned on the wiliness of the bay’s octopuses. Not only did one manage to open the bait canister and eat its fill of the pilchards inside, but some of its mates made off with…

  • Google Launches Underwater “Street View”

    Google Launches Underwater “Street View”

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    “Apple Maps might drive you off the road and into the ocean, but Google Maps just launched “Underwater Street View”, in case you’d like to see the sights but stay dry.”

  • Alligator Attraction lets you swim with gators

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    “You’ve had the Chuck E. Cheese party. You’ve had the clown party. You’ve had the jump-a-roo bounce house party. Well, when you say you’re going to have a party, they go that’s nice. We’re gonna have a pool party. That’s nice. We’re gonna have a pool party with a gator. Everybody comes,” Barrett said. Read…

  • Kiwi hospital removes eel from man’s bum

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    A man sought emergency treatment at hospital in Auckland last week with an eel stuck up his bottom. It is believed the patient was sent for X-rays and a scan, which showed there was an eel lodged inside him. “The eel was about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus and the incident is…

  • Shoshoni the horse crosses the Loch Lomond every week

    Shoshoni the horse crosses the Loch Lomond every week

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    “We live on an island and had no means of transportation to take her to the mainland so we tried swimming – and she loved it. Despite being a horse, she took to it like a duck to water. It helps to keep her fit, and we find swimming is good for her mentally as well.” Read…