Category: Nature
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“Brinicles”, the terrifying icy finger of death
A brinicle is formed when brine (extremely salty water, denser and colder than the sea water around it) sinks from the ice above to the ocean floor, creating a frozen hollow “sheath” in the process. After hitting the seabed, it forms a frozen “river”, killing everything in its path. Run little starfishes, run! Via geekologie.com…
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Self-discovery on a single breath
So it’s another freediving day on Swimmer’s Daily, here via this article about the ABC Open project “Water is …“, which inspires people to share their experiences with water. Video is Erez Beatus, one of Australia’s best known freedivers, describing his sport. See also the Vimeo group “Water is …” Self-discovery on a single breath…
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Freediving Encounter at -70m
Spanish Freediver Miguel Lozano freedives to -70m on VW and finds a friend down there … in Tenerife.
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The diving grandmas of Jeju Island
Haenyo literally means ‘sea women’, and is a centuries old tradition on the island of Jeju, 53 miles south of mainland Korea. Women diving for conch, octopus, urchin and abalone, because if their men did it, they’d have to pay taxes, and that wouldn’t make it profitable. The reason for them being mostly grandmas today,…
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Great White sighting covered up by fisheries department ?
This spooky footage was taken on October 21 by a stationary Fisheries camera at a popular dive spot knows as D9 in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia, where a sunken barge lies 3km offshore in 12m of water. The camera was set up to monitor snapper spawning, but shows a big great white circling four times…
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Eye to eye with a humpback whale
Boyd Matson of National Geographic Weekend spent a week following humpback whales in the wild with Tom Conlin of Aquatic Adventures. Read more and listen to the radio interview on National Geographic News Watch.
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Orca attack victim at Seaworld says risk “acceptable”
SeaWorld trainer who Ken Peters escaped being drowned by a killer whale during a public performance in California in 2006, testified on Tuesday that he still works with the whales and considers the risk “acceptable”. “I could get killed in a car accident today, but I still get in a car,” he said during the…
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Freediving with a great white shark
*And* sea lions … now that is a photosafari that I don’t want to partake in :-S “On the last day we had the bottom at 20m and the coastal drop off in sight and spent more than 4 hours freediving with 3 giant sharks sharing the spectacle with some curious sea lions. Freediving at…