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Category: Nature

  • Waves – A portrait of Maria á Heygum

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    A beautiful short film here by Faroese film maker Heiðrikur á Heygum, about his grandmother Maria á Heygum. Nicknamed “the swimming granny”, she had been swimming in the ocean out of Vestmanna for 48 years, when this movie was produced. Imagine, every day in 7°C warm water (44.6°F), no matter the weather, no matter the…

  • William Trubridge 101 meters world record dive

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    Here is William Trubridge from New Zealand attempting to break the world record of freediving the deepest in history. Diving straight down with no fins, no oxygen, no assistance, in an effort to make awareness that we need to protect our wildlife, and specifically our dolphins. Or as he writes on his website “1 hectometer…

  • ‘Sea animal’ bites off both swimmer’s arms

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    A creature described as a “sea animal” chewed off both arms of a Russian swimmer in an extremely rare attack in the waters off its Far Eastern Coast. Via Herald Sun. “A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” the Interfax news agency quoted a…

  • Wow, Chinese go swimming despite of really bad algae attack

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    A huge swath of algae is drifting toward the Chinese city of Qingdao, expecting to blanket its beaches in two days’ time. It is not toxic, but still ravages the ecosystem by suffocating other marine life. This is the third time in five years this has happened, decimating local aquaculture and costing millions of yuan…

  • How about an underwater bedroom suite for two ?

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    A little over five years ago, Conrad Maldives Rangali Island opened the very first all-glass, undersea restaurant, offering guests the chance to eat 16 feet below sea level of the breathtaking tropical Indian Ocean. Now in celebration of this, they turned the Ithaa restaurant into a temporary private Hilton-class bedroom suite for two, complete with…

  • Jellyfish on a rampage, shutting down nuclear plants in Japan and Israel too

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    We’ve heard about the Scotland incident, where a swarm of jellyfish forced a nuclear plant to shut down, because they swam into the seawater filters and blocked the cooling. Now SCAQ writes about the same stuff happening in Japan and Israel, I think it is an epidemy!

  • Water shot at 7,000 FPS

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    Video of water at 7,000 frames per second. No wonder we love it. Via geekologie.com. Team Ghost – High Hopes from 16ar on Vimeo.

  • Swimming across the Corryvreckan whirlpool

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    The Corryvreckan Whirlpool is a mile of swirling, turbulent water that separates the Scottish Inner Hebrides island of Jura from northerly Scarba. Rumour whirls around this murky place, they say it is the third largest whirlpool in the world, that the Royal Navy classify it as officially ‘unnavigable’, that an unfortunate Norse king was swept…

  • First documented cookiecutter shark attack on a live human

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    This scientific paper details the first documented attack on a live human by a cookiecutter shark, named so because it uses its large bottom jaw teeth to bite out a cookie-cutter shaped piece of flesh from its victim. In this particular case from 2009, the shark first tried to carve out a piece of the…