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Category: Nature

  • Extraordinary Laoyncang tidal waves injure 20 spectators in China

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    Around 40,000 people were watching the tides at the Laoyancang dam of the Qiantang River in east China, when the biggest return tide in nine years destroyed the barriers, washing out about 100 tourists, security guards, a reporter and a car. Twenty people were injured, including nine with serious injuries. Read for instance crienglish.com and…

  • Pssst, there’s a python in the pool

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    A four-meter-long python wallowing at the bottom of a swimming pool in a Malaysian private club sent bathers running last Tuesday. It may a slipped into the pool from nearby bushes to cool itself, when a woman spotted it resting under a ladder, herself and 8 other people including children swimming in the pool at…

  • Here’s a tub of terrified sea lampreys

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    The sea lamprey is a parasitic eel-like fish found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in the Great Lakes and even in the Thames. It has a suction-cup like mouth full of sharp teeth, and it doesn’t take prisoners, but let’s them bleed to death or die…

  • Sea lion attacks couple at Venice Beach

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    An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA.

  • Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

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    The Kurishio Sea Tank in the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, featuring whale sharks, mantas and the occasional diver. Beautiful, soothing, mesmerising, they still look a bit trapped, though. Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

  • Swimming with a (dead) giant squid

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    While filming whales off of the Canary Islands recently, a documentary crew discovered a rare marine find – the body of an Architheuthis (giant squid) bobbing in open water. They reckon that it was an adult female about 8 metres long with intact tentacles, where the largest specimens can be about 18 to 20 metres…

  • Dream Machine – Fiji Water 2011

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    Tatiana and Verda enjoying the water in and around Fiji. Yes, we are in the GoPro zone again, capturing beautiful video no matter if it is in, on or above water, or in the transition between these places. DREAM MACHINE – FIJI WATER – 2011 from Tatiana Howard on Vimeo.

  • Aww, swim with tigers at Dade City zoo

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    The nonprofit Dade City’s Wild Things sanctuary in Pasco County is hoping that cat lovers will pay $200 a pop for the chance to take a dip with a tiger cub. Just don’t be around when momma comes home! Via Tampa Bay Online. Here’s another video from Tampa Bay Online …

  • The Whale – official movie trailer

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    A new movie about a killer whale (orca) that took (friendly) interest in people (and apparently has a great sense of humor, see the intro). A beautiful film shot by whale friends in Nootka Sound, Canada, that world premiered here in the Faroe Islands. Movie City News via seattlepi, see also www.thewhalemovie.com.