Category: Nature
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Rottnest Island
This is not so swimming relevant, but just a really nice video demonstrating what can be done with ‘amateur’ cameras these days. A trip to Rottnest Island, Western Australia, captured on Canon 7D and GoPro Hero. Love the colors, the clarity and those weird animals.
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7News: Shark feeding frenzy off Perth
Beaches off Perth, Australia, were closed Monday because of the sighting by a helicopter crew of a massive shark feeding frenzy. Video footage shows dozens of sharks, mostly blacktip and bronze whalers, in a spectacular assault on schooling bait fish and small tuna. See GrindTV
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Penguins on a Plane
On Delta Flight 1641 from San Antonio to Atlanta on March 8th, there were two “special guests” flying First Class, Pete & Penny Penguin from Sea World. Actually quite logical when you think about it, as they couldn’t possibly fly themselves. Via BuzzFeed
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Video from a dolphin pod stranding and rescue this week
About 30 dolphins stranded and were saved by local people at Arraial do Cabo (Brazil) in the morning at 8:00 AM on March 5th 2012. And Gerd Traue was there to film the entire thing.
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Ditched kite surfer fends of sharks with a knife for 2 days in Red Sea
Janek Lisewski, 42, a kite surfing champion from Poland, was two-thirds of the way through a 124-mile trip between Egypt and Saudi Arabia when the wind died down and deflated his kite. He survived by drinking energy drinks and two energy bars. He used a knife to fend off sharks. “I was stabbing them in…
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Another storm, another windmill
Two down, two to go. I think we can conclude that there is plenty of wind energy here in the Faroe Islands, only problems harnessing it
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A song made up of sounds of Olympians competing
Why do I like every single sound in that track? Because it is made by human beings trying to do their best! DailyHouse via GoSwim on Twitter
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Flo the dog climbs ladders and high dives into pool
Extremely impressed here, not so happy about heights myself, but this dog just don’t care. What is that, 3 meters? And that comment, “Don’t think about it!” :-D Via Neatorama
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Shark attack survivor’s harrowing tale
Anthony Segrich was spearfishing with his buddies hunting Cobia and Grouper, when a bull shark attacked him. “And it was one of the strangest sensations, it’s very difficult to describe, but I mean, you knew you were being eaten by something,†said Anthony. CBS Miami via the17thman