Category: Wow
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Google I/O 2013 – Dive Into Underwater Street View
30+ minutes of geekdom, bear with me Google and Catlin Seaview Survey‘s Richard Vevers have partnered together to bring the first ever underwater street view imagery to Google Maps. Learn how Catlin Seaview Survey has built a special camera to collect this spectacular surround imagery.
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Mine-seeking Navy dolphins discover rare 19th century torpedo
Read LA Times Two trained dolphins surprise Navy specialists with their find: a Howell torpedo, state-of-the-art for its day in the late 19th century. It’s only the second one known to exist. […] “Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man,” Braden Duryee, an official at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center…
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Behold this awesome underwater bullet time ad created in South Africa
Via PetaPixel Portugal’s Krypton Films, in collaboration with production company Moonlighting and marine support company Frog Squad, recently succeeded in filming what they claim to be South Africa’s first ever underwater time slice for an Aqua Das Pedras mineral water commercial.
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Spanish doping doctor Fuentes’ secrets for sale
Read The Guardian The convicted sports-doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes is threatening to reveal the dirty secrets of the world’s major sporting events as he offers to sell his story to newspapers after being convicted on public health charges in Spain for his role in helping top cyclists to cheat. Fuentes, considered one of international sport’s…
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Freediver Kimi Werner swims with Great White Shark
“Patagonia ambassador Kimi Werner strives to find her place in the ecosystem. She treads the line between predator and prey – eventually discovering balance in an unlikely place.”
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Natural Pools – Natural Pool selfbuild
“Swimming in natural water is a delight to our sences. Your skin and hair feels soft and your eyes don’t sting. It seems as if, every cell in your body is telling you – this is the way swimming should be.” – David Pagan Butler, www.organicpools.co.uk
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Awesome footage as 20 orcas chase and play in the wake of a speeding boat
Rich & Laura Howard were celebrating their 20th Wedding Anniversary with a diving trip in La Paz, Mexico, when a pod of about 20 killer whales decided to chase their boat. Via 7News
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Night Diving with Manta Rays
“Manta rays are one of nature’s most graceful and eerie animals. In Episode 2 of UnderH2O, we go underwater off the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii — in the dark of night — to film these enormous creatures.” – Not sure, but I think that sound is added ;-)
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Behold the Boiler Pot Hot Tub
I’m speechless, definitely the most awesome hot tub ever Via Buzzfeed