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Category: Nature

  • Behold Cyanea Capillata, the world largest jellyfish

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    According to Wikipedia, the largest jellyfish ever discovered was a Lion’s Mane jellyfish, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870. It had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.29 meters (7 feet 6 inches) and (poisonous) tentacles 37 meters (120 feet) long. To put that into perspective, the largest blue whale…

  • Richard Branson about to sink to an all-time low

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    I admin, a lame maybe even misleading title, but not entirely wrong. Sir Richard Branson has announced he will make five dives to the deepest parts of the Earth’s ocean using the specially designed DeepFlight Challenger submersible, able to endure the pressure of 1,000 atmospheres at depth, utilizing unique wings to “fly” underwater. And it…

  • Japanese dog rescued after 3 weeks at sea

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    A Japanese dog somehow managed to survive three weeks at sea atop the debris of a house, swept out miles to sea after the tsunami. And still it was well enough to wag its tail and hide from the rescue crew. Sources Geekosystem and scaq.blogspot.com.

  • A once in a lifetime surfing shot

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    Yes, this is getting a bit thin, but PetaPixel says that the shot shared yesterday compared to this one is like comparing 2D to 3D. And they are even less a surfing blog than we.

  • This is why they call them Killer Whales

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    A pack of orcas hunting a seal really close to shore in Oyndarfjørður on the island Eysturoy where I live, yesterday. Difficult to see, but the seal eventually manages to escape, by hiding between the rocks and seaweed straight under the video photographer’s feet. We call them ‘bóghvítuhvalur’ because of their white belly, or ‘mastrarhvalur’…

  • Kayaker gets to meet a basking shark

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    We have those here in the Faroes, and stories to tell like when two of my friends swam in the ocean at Leynar, with a third on land suddenly seeing two huge basking sharks playing pretty close to them. They never saw the sharks themselves, which was probably just as well. Via liveleak.com.

  • How about breathing liquid air?

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    Arnold Lande, a retired American heart and lung surgeon, has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe “liquid air”, a special solution that has been highly enriched with oxygen molecules. “The first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex,” explains Lande, a 79-year-old inventor from St Louis,…

  • Swim to Empower: Teaching Bahamians How to Float

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    Eleuthera, Bahamas is named after the Greek word for “freedom,” Eleuthera is 110 miles long and just a mile at its widest. To the east is the occasionally wild Atlantic, to the west a shallow, usually calm Caribbean Sea. The waters on both sides are ideal for swimming. Unless, of course, you don’t know how…

  • Akaiwa swam in to save his wife and mother

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    The Los Angeles Times brings this incredible story about 43-year-old Hideaki Akaiwa, who couldn’t wait for rescue workers when large parts of his hometown of Ishinomaki were turned into a lake by the tsunami, but donned a wetsuit and went looking for his wife himself. He managed to find their house in all the debris,…