Category: Nature
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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.
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BIOTOP Natural Pools use plants instead of chlorine to keep water safe
Wow, interesting (and literally very ‘green’), an Austrian company called Biotop Natural Pool uses plants to create an ecosystem where the pool is teaming with life. Pool designs have separate swimming and plant-growing areas of equal size. The plants eat the algae, which would otherwise take over. Via Mike Elgan on Google+
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PETA sues SeaWorld to end killer whale slavery
A US judge is considering a complaint by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) against SeaWorld, naming five killer whales as plaintiffs in a lawsuit which argues they deserve the same constitutional protection from slavery as humans. They don’t consider it likely that the whales will win their freedom, but campaigners said they…