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Category: Nature

  • Eel removed from man’s bladder after beauty spa visit

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    Zhang Nan was bathing with live eels to cleanse his skin at a beauty spa in China, when suddenly he felt a sharp pain and realised a small eel was working its way up his urethra and into his bladder. “I tried to hold it and take it out, but the eel was too slippery…

  • Open water swimmer bitten by harbor seal during race

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    During (I guess) the San Francisco Bay 10K Bridge-to-Bridge Swim last Saturday, a harbour seal bit John Reichmuth from Berkely so badly that it left a large, gaping wound above his left ankle and punctured four holes in his right leg, just below the knee. “I had my hands on it and punched it, and…

  • Swimming with a pack of Killer Whales

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    Excuse me for saying this, but swimming with a pack of Orcas is just stupid. Those things are intelligent predators that know how to work as a team, and you are not safe even when on a boat, if you are constantly leaning overboard on it. Via Buzzfeed.com. Below is a small example of how…

  • Good quality video of the Magnini vs dolphins swim

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    Via hollandswimming.nl, this much better quality video than in our original post. Doesn’t do him justice though, still whooped badly by the dolphins. Speed race between man and dolphin by silvan500

  • Brain-eating amoeba now linked to 4 deaths in USA this summer

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    As they say in this video below, amoebic brain infection are the medical equivalent of being struck by lightning, but still horrific. An extremely common amoeba living in just about every warm body of fresh water, that invades the central nervous system via the nose and kills you almost certainly within two weeks, even if…

  • The Vandenberg Art Exhibition requires a scuba diving certification

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    Or serious freediving skills, an underwater art exhibit has debuted on the former Air Force missile tracking ship “Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg” sunk in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary seven miles south of Key West to become an artificial reef. In other news, the art world is weird. Via Neatorama.

  • Freeing a humpback whale

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    This is nice, Michael Fishback and friends freeing a humpback whale on Valentine’s Day. I’m skipping ahead to the moment when they get the last piece of nylon net off of her, and she starts celebrating or scratching her itchy skin on the surface of the sea or whatever. Via neotorama.com.

  • Bodyboarder cut in half by Great White Shark

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    Grueling story here: The Australian reported that the officer from Dunsborough, on the southwest coast of Western Australia, said “she took some peace from the fact we could say (because of) the nature of his injuries he obviously didn’t suffer for too long” Her 21-year-old bodyboarding son was bitten in half and instantly killed by…

  • Crikey, there’s a crocodile in the pool !

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    Swimmers in Darwin, Australia got a small yet significant shock when a crocodile was found in a public pool. Lifeguard Tim Dupe said he initially thought the reptile was a rubber toy until it snapped it jaws. Swimmer’s Daily comment: The reptile epidemic is spreading, from now on I’ll put a bullet through every toy…