Swimmer's Daily

Category: Nature

  • Tahiti – Ocean Voyage

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    Not so much about swimming, but that’s beside the point.

  • So you wanna talk to dolphins ?

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    American researcher Denise Herzing has been testing 2-way communications with dolphins since 1998, first with them replying by pointing out underwater icons, but now in collaboration with artificial intelligence researcher Thad Starner by “co-creating” a language that uses features of sounds that wild dolphins communicate with naturally. They are building a prototype device featuring a…

  • There is a race to reach the bottom of the ocean ?

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    It has been 50 years since anyone has been to the deepest point on the ocean floor, but now “Avatar” director James Cameron wants to go there, and British billionaire Richard Branson, and Triton Submarines CEO Bruce Jones, all in different projects. Cameron has commisioned a submarine made from high-tech composite materials, Branson will be…

  • 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.