Category: Nature
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Diving on the Salam Express
The ferry “Salam Express” sank in December 1991 while it was on its way home to Egypt from Saudi Arabia. On board there were officially 690 passengers, some estimate 1600, whereof only 200 survived. Diving on The Salam Express Red Sea 2011 from Karim Hamza on Vimeo.
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Time Warp – Water & Professor Splash
Water droplet photography meets a Photron high speed camera for some serious ‘water in motion’ poetry. They also filmed shallow water Guiness Record holder Darren Taylor a.k.a. “Professor Splash” doing a high dive into a kiddie pool So let’s watch that shallow water world record
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6 Japanese swim to Taiwan to say thanks for US$260.5 million
Six Japanese swimmers are at the moment navigating 150 kilometers to Taiwan to show gratitude for the US$260.5 million aid the country provided following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Team leader Kazuya Suzuki said prior to the swimmers’ departure that their main fear is “not the current or typhoons, but the fragility of…
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Eel removed from man’s bladder after beauty spa visit
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…
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Open water swimmer bitten by harbor seal during race
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…
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Swimming with a pack of Killer Whales
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…
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Good quality video of the Magnini vs dolphins swim
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
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Brain-eating amoeba now linked to 4 deaths in USA this summer
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…
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The Vandenberg Art Exhibition requires a scuba diving certification
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.