Category: Nature
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Stormwatcher Lucy Yang braving terrible New Jersey flood back in 2010
Excuse me if you’ve seen this already, I hadn’t :-) Via Neatorama
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Dog swims with Dolphins
Awesome, GoPro FTW, Go Kira ! Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath
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Chinese divers have got nothing on this imperial cormorant
A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Research Council of Argentina recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became “superbird” – diving 150 feet underwater in 40 seconds, feeding on the ocean floor for 80 seconds…
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Brave freediver spears and lands huge tuna amid circling sharks
“For veteran freedivers, spearing a giant yellowfin tuna is an ultimate goal, but one rarely fulfilled because the fish are so swift and elusive. But Wendell Ko, 51, recently bagged an 188-pound yellowfin, on a single breath, off Kona, Hawaii. And he accomplished this feat while surrounded by circling sharks.” Read The GrindTV Blog.
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63-year-old man busted for feeding gator with his hand
Wow, read News-Press via boingboing Wallace Weatherholt, 63, was leading a tour of Florida’s Everglades when he allegedly reached over the side of his boat to feed a fish to an alligator. The 9-foot alligator bit off Weatherholt’s hand at the wrist. Weatherholt was subsequently charged with a misdemeanor for unlawful feeding of a gator.
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Dead humpback whale found in Sydney swimming pool
Australian authorities find a dead 39 feet 30-tonne humpback whale washed up in a Sydney seaside swimming pool.
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Graphic video: Killer whale nearly drowns SeaWorld trainer
This video is from a near death incident as SeaWorld San Diego back in 2006, when the killer whale Kasatka attacked her trainer Ken Peters presumably because she heard a distress call from her calf in a backstage pool. Peters suffers a broken foot but remains eerily calm, finally managing to free himself, only to…