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Category: Nature

  • Would You Go Swimming With A Whale Shark?

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    Yes please, very much. Via The Life Files.

  • Sea Urchins see with their entire body

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    They don’t have eyes per se, but apparently detect light and form images by the way the shadows from the spines are falling on the surface of the body, creating one huge all-compassing compound eye. It is not 20/20-vision, but maybe as good as that of a nautilus. Still sounds confusing to me. Via www.sciencedaily.com.

  • Jellyfish force nuclear plant to shutdown

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    High volumes of jellyfish forced the Torness nuclear plant in Scotland to shutdown for two days after swimming into its seawater filters. I say 90% water 1 – Greenpeace 0 !! :-P See video here on BBC News Scotland. Jellyfish from Alex Mazzucca on Vimeo.

  • Who brings a machete to an ocean swim ?

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    Interesting detail here, as mentioned by Gold Medal Mel and The Swim Brief … One of the members of her support team traveling in a small inflatable, a local fisherman named Charles Ebanks, distracted the sharks with dead fish, then killed three of six- to eight-footers with a machete. Earlier this week we read that…

  • Cousteau says use glass, not plastic

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    Jacques Cousteau’s granddaughter Céline Cousteau urges people to use glass packaging rather than plastic, since it is more natural and healthier, and recycles better. If you care for the ocean, use glass where you can. See GlassIsLife.com, via scaq.blogspot.com.

  • Orangutan saves baby chick from drowning

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    Gentle and all, nudging it to safety with a leaf.

  • Nightsurf

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    What an amazing video. As someone comments here on Vimeo, “the moon and stars were a bit too much for me.” And then the director answers, “Thanks Otis but there is no intention to simulate reality.” :-) Nightsurf from Iker Elorrieta on Vimeo.

  • Palfrey recovering well after record-breaking swim

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    Penny Palfrey was released from hospital Tuesday morning after being hospitalised for a day and a half from her epic 40 hour and 41 minute swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman. “The swelling is already gone and she’s starting to look like herself”, her husband Chris Palfrey said Monday evening. Turns out now afterwards…

  • The strongest fish lead the school

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    Fish swim in schools partly to evade predators and partly to improve their chances foraging for food. Until now, it was thought that these groups were egalitarian structures in which all members benefited equally in food terms, regardless of their position. But a study published on Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows…