Quicksand is a mixture of solid particles (like sand) and water. When your foot presses down on it, your weight squeezes the water out from between the particles. That leaves you trapped by mud that feels nearly solid. Check out this video, where the host walks onto what looks like solid ground, and sinks. Within a few minutes, he’s surrounded by a puddle of displaced water. Also, he is a little more trapped than he expected to be
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Seen here doing his best Johah impression, this is a video of 51-year old dive tour operator Rainer Schimpf discussing being accidentally (and thankfully only very briefly) stuck in the mouth of a Bryde’s whale while it was feeding during a sardine run off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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What if…. you could swim in Titan’s lakes? Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is unique. It has its own atmosphere.
Sandra is the first woman to swim across the Vis Channel, Croatia, setting a record as the first female swimmer to do that. She did it in July 2018, after winning a battle with breast cancer. This is her extraordinary story.
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CONAN Highlight: Bert loves Speedos so much, he pitched himself as a spokesman. Speedo responded to Bert’s pitch with a cease and desist order.
Because Minnesotans are a completely different breed of people descended from snowmen, this is a video of a group of guys icebergin’ in the middle of winter. What’s icebergin’? Apparently pickaxing and stomping around on a frozen lake until the ice breaks into pieces, then running across them.
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Villa Cella Bella in Bali, Indonesia has the most lavish flower pool. You can request the display with any design when you book a stay through AirBnb or other vacation rental sites. The creations are made with plumeria petals and can take up to six hours to make. Rooms start at $99 a night.
Sometimes you don’t make you’re swim coach happy, and that will get you kicked in the deep end. If thats the case, watch “Nothing Personal” by Jim McCue only at http://www.drybarcomedy.com/jimm
A Hong Kong man has drowned after helping to save a swimmer’s life off the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada.
The 40-year-old man, surnamed Choy, had been enjoying a trip with his wife and other travellers on a small island off Hurghada when the incident occurred at around 11am on Tuesday, local agency Wing On Travel announced on Friday.
“The weather was fine and the water was calm. Then a drowning swimmer shouted for help and that male tour member, as well as other local staff, rushed to join the rescue efforts,†a company spokeswoman said.
But after helping to save the struggling swimmer’s life, Choy lost his own, she said.
“The male tour member was found to be unconscious near the shore as he tried to swim back to the beach.â€
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