Category: Nature
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8-year old finds $60,000 piece of whale vomit on beach
Here is 8-year old Charlie Naysmith holding 600 grams of ambergris that he found on the beach at Hengistbury Head in England, a waxy substance from the intestines of sperm whales which is used to prolong the scent of perfume. That’s it, I’m going down to the coast with a couple of liters of schnapps,…
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First underwater wheelchair to debut in London ahead of Paralympics
A British artist will perform swimming pool acrobatics in the world’s first underwater wheelchair this week in London. Sue Austin, a wheelchair-bound artist, invented and helped create the prototype and she’ll be demonstrating what it can do at the London 2012 Festival Wednesday through Saturday. Read for instance Toronto Sun and the BBC
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Cute Koala crosses river, charms canoe crew
Koalas aren’t normally known for taking a dip, but one curious creature on Queensland’s Gold Coast wasn’t shy about exploring new terrain. See Arbroath
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Behold Captain the freediving dog
35 feet in one breath, probably the canine world record ! :-) Here is him retrieving two frisbees in one dive, wow
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Bride drowns during photo shoot when wedding dress pulls her into the river
Warning to all wedding photographers, a newly married Montreal-area women drowned this past Friday during a ‘trash the dress’ photo shoot in the Ouareau River. The 30-year-old woman stepped into water that was neither deep nor fast-flowing. However, her wedding dress soaked up the river water, making it extremely heavy. She then slipped on the…
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Behold, NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon officiating a dolphin race at Georgia Aquarium
Complete with a fished-filled trophy and all, see NBC Sports
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This pool is too small for even a baby elephant
Trying to count laps here, but it is difficult, via Arbroath
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Oh no, our hippo from yesterday died before he could be rescued
Not much rescue about that, Solly the hippo stuck in a South African swimming pool died before the vet arrived, apparently because of the aggravated stress experienced ever since he had been fighting for a position in his herd. Read The Washington Post and News24
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Girl catches 1000+ pound marlin, but no record since she couldn’t reel it in
Molly Palmer, while competing in the recent Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament off Kona, Hawaii, joined the exclusive “granders” club after landing a Pacific blue marlin weighing 1,022.5 pounds. It was by far the largest marlin of the tournament and would have earned Palmer an International Game Fish Assn. world record. But after four hours of reeling and gaining no…