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Category: Nature

  • SeaWorld staff develop brace to help whale with scoliosis

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    SeaWorld Orlando’s Animal Rescue Team is currently trying to care for a once-stranded pilot whale suffering from scoliosis, using a custom orthopedic brace to help her swim normally again in maybe a few months. Via Animal Tracks Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

  • Ladies in bikinis swim with Great White Sharks

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    Bill Weir and ‘scientists’ on effort to show that Great White Sharks are not attracted by the sight of human skin. Well good for them! :-P video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Via ABC News

  • There is salmon in them streets !

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    Heavy rains in Mason County, Washington coincided with the salmon spawning season, causing water levels to rise, flooding a street that some salmon then chose as their route upstream. Pro fisherman Conway Bowman suggested that folks leave them alone, calling it a “total unfair advantage” to start catching them. But you do realize that it…

  • “Brinicles”, the terrifying icy finger of death

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    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…

  • Self-discovery on a single breath

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    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…

  • Freediving Encounter at -70m

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    Spanish Freediver Miguel Lozano freedives to -70m on VW and finds a friend down there … in Tenerife.

  • The diving grandmas of Jeju Island

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    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,…

  • Great White sighting covered up by fisheries department ?

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    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…

  • Eye to eye with a humpback whale

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    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.