Category: Nature
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Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar
The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.
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Mom saves daughter from shark attack
Valeh Levy and her 15-year-old daughter, Sydney, were paddling on their surfboards Wednesday off New Smyrna Beach in Florida when a shark suddenly pulled the teen underwater — twice. Levy pulled her daughter onto her board. Read more here on ABC News “It was to me like a scene out of ‘Jaws,’ where the girl’s…
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Rottnest Island
This is not so swimming relevant, but just a really nice video demonstrating what can be done with ‘amateur’ cameras these days. A trip to Rottnest Island, Western Australia, captured on Canon 7D and GoPro Hero. Love the colors, the clarity and those weird animals.
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7News: Shark feeding frenzy off Perth
Beaches off Perth, Australia, were closed Monday because of the sighting by a helicopter crew of a massive shark feeding frenzy. Video footage shows dozens of sharks, mostly blacktip and bronze whalers, in a spectacular assault on schooling bait fish and small tuna. See GrindTV
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Penguins on a Plane
On Delta Flight 1641 from San Antonio to Atlanta on March 8th, there were two “special guests” flying First Class, Pete & Penny Penguin from Sea World. Actually quite logical when you think about it, as they couldn’t possibly fly themselves. Via BuzzFeed
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Video from a dolphin pod stranding and rescue this week
About 30 dolphins stranded and were saved by local people at Arraial do Cabo (Brazil) in the morning at 8:00 AM on March 5th 2012. And Gerd Traue was there to film the entire thing.
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Ditched kite surfer fends of sharks with a knife for 2 days in Red Sea
Janek Lisewski, 42, a kite surfing champion from Poland, was two-thirds of the way through a 124-mile trip between Egypt and Saudi Arabia when the wind died down and deflated his kite. He survived by drinking energy drinks and two energy bars. He used a knife to fend off sharks. “I was stabbing them in…
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Another storm, another windmill
Two down, two to go. I think we can conclude that there is plenty of wind energy here in the Faroe Islands, only problems harnessing it
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A song made up of sounds of Olympians competing
Why do I like every single sound in that track? Because it is made by human beings trying to do their best! DailyHouse via GoSwim on Twitter