Category: Nature
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Behold a nuclear bomb exploding under water
According to Pat Bradley, one of the cameramen who documented US atomic tests during the 1950s, the Wahoo and Umbrella underwater explosions were more amazing than a atmospheric nuclear explosion. Watch this stunning video and listen to him explaining his experience of living these explosions just 2.5 miles away. Read Gizmodo
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Swimmers warned to stay away from Stinky the sexually harassing dolphin
It is a scene you never saw in an episode of Flipper but swimmers are being warned not to approach an over amorous male dolphin who’s been sexually bothering snorkellers, swimmers and scuba divers in the waters off Grand Cayman, in the Caribbean. Read more here on the Mirror Videographer Michael Maes was filming when…
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Crab Fishing Off The Shores Of North Vancouver (VIDEO)
If you’ve wondered what a crab trap looks like underwater, wonder no more. Vancouver videographer and journalist James Keller put a waterproof camera in a crab trap and dumped it into the waters off North Vancouver. The camera is a GoPro, and I now have a project for this weekend, see Huffington Post Underwater fishing from James…
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Baby Hippo Learns to Swim
A baby hippo at San Diego Zoo gets swimming lessons from mom. And he needs more of them, me thinks.
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Swimmer circled by ‘at least’ 10 sharks
A Queensland father who was encircled by a group of sharks while swimming in remote waters off the north Kimberley coast has described the experience as one of the most unsettling of his life. Read thewest.
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Gee, rangers save seal pup almost strangled by littered g-string
Last week, authorities from the NZ Department of Conservation were called out to a stretch of coastline known as Lover’s Leap after receiving reports of an animal in distress. When rescue crews arrived, they found a young seal which had gotten its head dangerously entangled in the most unlikely of ocean debris: a G-string. Read…
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Falls of a Roaring River
“The Homies and I headed out to Roaring River Falls and Muir Rock for some jumping and swimming in some ice bath water.” Falls of a Roaring River from Brendon Anthony on Vimeo.
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Diver and seal get real close, as in holding hands
Behold underwater wildlife cameraman Ben Burville‘s close encounter with a grey seal, ‘the front flippers of the seal can grasp much like a human hand.’ Via CBS News