Category: Nature
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Face to face with great white sharks: Outside the cage and totally exposed | 60 Minutes Australia
When 50 year old Paul Wilcox was taken by a great white shark off Byron Bay, he became the fourth confirmed shark fatality in Australian waters in just 12 months. It seems shark attacks are becoming more frequent, and being at one of the country’s most iconic beaches, makes it all the more confronting. However,…
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There is a town under Lake Lanier creating danger years later
Dive teams respond to most rescue and recovery calls made on Lake Lanier. They deal with dangerous conditions that have proven deadly to hundreds of people.
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New Zealand bans swimming with bottlenose dolphins after numbers plunge
The New Zealand government has banned tourists from swimming with bottlenose dolphins in an attempt to save the struggling species. According to the department of conservation [DoC] research has shown that humans were “loving the dolphins too much†and human interaction was “having a signifiant impact on the population’s resting and feeding behaviourâ€. The ban on swimming…
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Boy, 11, speaks about being bitten by shark while swimming off Fort Lauderdale
A Canadian boy was apparently bitten by a shark Wednesday morning while vacationing with his family in Fort Lauderdale.
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Woman, 27, Bit by Shark Twice While Swimming off of Hawaii’s Big Island
A 27-year-old woman in Hawaii is alive after she was bitten twice by a shark on Tuesday while swimming in Kealakekua Bay, a historic state park on the western side of the Big Island. According to Hawaii Police, the woman — whose identity has not been released — was swimming in the waters of Kealakekua Bay’s…
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Alligator Takes a Swim in Parkland Pool
A Parkland FL resident noticed something strange in her pool.
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A 7-foot crocodile was swimming in an Ohio creek as elementary school kids played in the water
It sounds like a scene from a monster movie. Children from a church group were playing in a creek in West Alexandria, Ohio, on Wednesday evening when one of their leaders spotted a 7-foot-long crocodile swimming nearby. There were 16 kids — all first- through sixth-graders — playing in Bantas Fork Creek, and adults were…