Category: Wow
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Giant Pyrosome caught on video, looks like that thing in ‘The Abyss’
Pyrosomes are pelagic (free-swimming) tunicates or sea squirts that live in the open ocean, as colonies of tiny animals that form hollow tubes sealed at one end. Divers off the Tasman Peninsula caught this giant Pyrostremma spinosum on video in 2011 or earlier (judging by the YouTube video upload date), a colony that can reach…
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Michigan Man Begins 22-mile ‘Ton of Bricks Swim’
A Michigan man has begun a swim that he hopes will take him 22 miles across Lake St. Clair. Long-distance swimmer Jim Dreyer’s latest feat of aquatic endurance got underway Monday. This time around, he’s also towing a ton of bricks.
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Whales almost eat Divers
While Diving Souza Rock on the Central california Coast Divers have a close call with HumpBack Whales. Wow.
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Beijing Water Cube Translates Entire Spectrum of Emotions Into Colored Light
See Asia Society Back in 2008, the Beijing National Aquatics Center — more informally known as the Water Cube — served as an international stage for China’s engagement with the global public during the Beijing Olympics. Today, it continues this legacy of large-scale broadcasting, standing as a real-time display of China’s mood. Unveiled on June 23 of this year, the…
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Freediving with a GoPro in slowmo
“A clip of beautiful underwater clips I captured freediving off of Prince beach in Maui with my lovely girlfriend Tamara and our friend Merra.” See Brad Scott Visuals