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Category: Nature

  • Kayaker captures amazing GoPro video of blue whale

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    Earlier this month, Rick Coleman and his wife were kayaking off Redondo Beach coast when a nearly 50-foot blue whale began eating lunch at the side of his boat. Coleman had his new waterproof GoPro head-mounted video camera with him, and well, then decided to just jump in to film the whale also underwater. Here…

  • Awww, Joey the otter is afraid to swim

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    Joey is a young river otter at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale who won’t jump into the water, probably because he was separated from his mother before he learned to swim. He is making progress though, so go Joey. Read and see videos for instance on ABC 7 and RightThisMinute

  • Sei whale found beached 800m inland on a field in Yorkshire

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    Experts believe it is a female Sei whale that became stranded after being carried up the north bank of the Humber Estuary by an exceptionally high tide while looking for food. Making contact with the bottom it has rolled onto its side and covered its blow hole, resulting in suffocation. Read for instance The Telegraph

  • Hannah Fraser is a professional mermaid

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    Yeah, you can be that, if you are really good-looking and know how to dolphin kick. I think she wastes quite a bit of energy by letting her bum rise up during the downward kick, but who am I to criticize … I’m no mermaid. Hannah Mermaid swims Bali shipwreck from Hannah Fraser on Vimeo.…

  • Killer whale has had enough with those noisy motor boats

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    Luna the orca certainly seems to know how to imitate an outboard motor engine. Or as someone comments on YouTube: “I can make horribly – annoying sounds too!”

  • Sri Lankan tsunami zone children learn to swim

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    Swim Lanka is a post-tsunami charity established to promote swimming in Sri Lanka, its initial aim to give coastal children the chance to overcome their fear of water and learn to swim. Many lives lost in the tsunami would have been saved if everyone had been able to swim. Most don’t know how. Read vcasa.net…

  • 42-year-old ignores shark warning, gets both legs bitten off

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    A British man lost parts of both legs when he was attacked by a great white shark Wednesday after he ignored warnings and went swimming at a Cape Town, South Africa, beach. He apparently made it back toward his shore and then was pulled from the water by a bystander, right leg bitten off above…

  • PETA jumps the shark with ‘payback’ campaign

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    PETA may have gone too far with its latest campaign, which suggests those who swim or fish in waters containing sharks are attacked or killed as ‘payback’. PETA wants the illustration placed on billboards and benches in areas where shark attacks happen, even stating that recent shark attacks are examples of the ‘payback’ the poster…

  • Diana Nyad will not attempt crossing again

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    Third time was not the charm for Diana Nyad, attempting to cross the 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. In a frequently emotional news conference in which she removed her shirt to reveal sting marks from toxic jellyfish, Nyad said she initially planned to muscle through the intense pain, but eventually had to give up,…