Snake catchers in Brisbane, Australia, came across a carpet python covered in more than 500 ticks.
Tony Harris, a local snake catcher, told Euronews that he found the serpent in a woman’s swimming pool where it was trying to drown the ticks.
“Pythons are usually very docile to start with and because of how weak this one was he didn’t put up any fight,†said Harris.
The snake catcher later took it to a wildlife centre for treatment.
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An artist and freediver duo have completed a world record feat by performing an incredible dance underwater without oxygen – for more than THREE MINUTES.
Marina Kazankova and Dmitrij Malasenko broke the Guinness wold record by putting on an eclectic performance which included a sword fight and flamenco-inspired moves.
The artists pirouetted for 3 minutes and 28 seconds last month in the Y-40, the deepest pool in the world located in Padova, Italy – enchanting the audience gathered in an underwater glass tunnel that passed right through the pool to watch them.
To make the stunt even more impressive, the pair performed most of their show while balancing on a rope.
Cayman’s athletes completed one last holdover from 2018 on Saturday: the 30th annual CUC Sea Swim.
The 800-meter race, originally set for Oct. 6, and then for Dec. 1, had been rescheduled due to weather conditions. On Saturday, however, swimmers encountered pristine waters and clear skies at Seven Mile’s Governors Beach.
Overall winner Alex Dakers, competing in the male 15-19 category, described a difficult but satisfying race.
“It was good conditions, as always, and it was a really good race between me and some of the other boys out here,†he said.
In Messina, a seaside town in Sicily, Italy, water is a constant companion and a way of life. But for the thousands of migrants who arrive from Africa and the Middle East by boat, the sea is a perilous means to an end and a villain who has taken lives right before their eyes. To help newly arrived young migrants from Messina’s Nautical Institute adapt to their new seaside home, Giuseppi Pinci and his team teach them to swim, scuba dive and, hopefully, fall in love with the water they once feared.
Josh Juhl, a senior and a swimmer at Valparaiso High School, suffered from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, in 2017. The students plans to attend Indiana University in the fall, and wants to pursue a career as a cardiologist.
A month ago, Tsunekazu Takeda was warmly applauded by 1,400 Olympic dignitaries as he spoke alongside International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Tokyo.
A month later, the powerful IOC member and head of the Japanese Olympic Committee is fighting a corruption investigation, suspected by French investigators of authorizing the payment of bribes to help land the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when IOC members voted in 2013.
In a Japanese Olympic Committee statement on Friday, Takeda denied any wrongdoing.
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Join me as I give in the irresistible urge to swim in the snow! This is Episode 3 of my Vlog: Adventures with Jeff Grant. In today’s episode, I swim on a snowy day in January in the Zürisee (Lake Zurich), in the village where I live near Zurich. The water temp is 6C /43F, with an air temp of -2C / 28F.
A Delta Police officer finishes a 12-hour swim for a great cause.
This week’s Op-Doc is “The Diver,†by Esteban Arrangoiz. Part four in “A Moment in Mexico,†our special six-part series of Op-Docs by Mexican directors, “The Diver†profiles a man who has found long lasting contentment in a dirty job: diving into the sewers and water treatment plants of Mexico City to clear blockages and reduce the risk of floods.
As Arrangoiz writes, “Mexico is undergoing multiple crises: humanitarian, corruption, garbage. This film shows us how through his work, a human being is capable of finding beauty, pleasure and the essence of his humanity inside the detritus. This moves me, gives me hope and compels me to make movies. I think Mexico needs stories like these.â€
