Swimmer's Daily

Category: Nature

  • Freeing a humpback whale

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    This is nice, Michael Fishback and friends freeing a humpback whale on Valentine’s Day. I’m skipping ahead to the moment when they get the last piece of nylon net off of her, and she starts celebrating or scratching her itchy skin on the surface of the sea or whatever. Via neotorama.com.

  • Bodyboarder cut in half by Great White Shark

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    Grueling story here: The Australian reported that the officer from Dunsborough, on the southwest coast of Western Australia, said “she took some peace from the fact we could say (because of) the nature of his injuries he obviously didn’t suffer for too long” Her 21-year-old bodyboarding son was bitten in half and instantly killed by…

  • Crikey, there’s a crocodile in the pool !

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    Swimmers in Darwin, Australia got a small yet significant shock when a crocodile was found in a public pool. Lifeguard Tim Dupe said he initially thought the reptile was a rubber toy until it snapped it jaws. Swimmer’s Daily comment: The reptile epidemic is spreading, from now on I’ll put a bullet through every toy…

  • 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…