Category: Nature
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Seth Casteel’s amazing photos of diving dogs
California-based photographer Seth Casteel devised a series of ball games to get dogs playing in the pool, like holding a ball under water and releasing it in his “bobbing for apples strategy”, to get them to dunk their faces it trying to get the ball. “The timing of this is the most challenging part,” he…
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Shy penguin too scared to swim
Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help…
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Wow, frozen sea ice flowers are beautiful
If I understand this correctly, this is something called ‘surface hoar frost‘, where saturated water vapors coming up through cracks in sea ice freeze and crystallize with salt on the ice serving as a nucleus for the frozen vaporized water. A dominant source of sea salt aerosol in Antactica, that scientist suspect may be main…
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Paganelli, Randig and de Vos freediving the Dahab caves
Linda Paganelli, Stefan Randig and Jacques de Vos head out to ‘The Caves’ just south of Dahab. Despite being an overcast, winter January day the dive itself still turned out to be awesome…
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Night swimming with sea monsters
This brave National Geographic reporter dove down into skools of man-sized Humboldt squids aka diablo rojo (‘red devil’).
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There is something in the abyss that says “quack”
Marine ecologist Rodney Rountree modified a few mp3-players into waterproof, deep-sea recording devices, attached them to crab traps and sent them 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface for 24 hours. As expected they heard whales and stuff that they could identify, but also frequent samples of at least 12 deep-sea sounds that they couldn’t identify,…
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Ice Castles
This is something they call The Ice Castles at Silverthorne, located in Colorado, USA. Beautiful, but I’m sure it looks more romantic and warm than it is :-)
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Diving with the deadly irukandji
A funny read, this thing on Gadling Not more than two seconds after reaching the bottom, however, his eyes excitedly bulged and appeared to double in size as seen through the fog of his mask. Slowly, he raised a focused finger at something apparently located behind me. For anyone who hasn’t spent much time underwater,…
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Frozen sea creaks like if some monster was pushing it
Via Buzzfeed, the sound of frozen sea being pushed against the shore in Odessa, Ukraine.