Underwater cave diving is a risky business.
Environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad and one of his fellow researchers-cum-explorers know this for a fact after experiencing an “underwater avalanche” — which is when sediment from the walls of the cave collapses in around the divers.
The harrowing experience, which took place in one of the Bahamas’ mysterious blue holes, was captured on video. National Geographic uploaded the footage to YouTube last week.
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Want to help clean polluted water? It might be as easy as slipping on this bikini.
Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan, professors at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, along with Ph.D student Daisy Patino and Ph. D graduate Hamed Bay, developed a material named Sponge. The engineer designed it to clean up oil and chemical spills and desalinizing water.
The material, which is created from heated sucrose, has “a highly porous structure that is super hydrophobic, meaning it repels water, but also absorbs harmful contaminants,” a press release explains.
Titles read: “EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WEMBLEY”.
“He picks up the technique and makes it look really, really easy”
She’s a breaststroke world record holder and was the first black woman to win a swimming world title. We meet Team Speedo swim sensation, Alia Atkinson, and quiz the Jamaican athlete on cartoons, sports and her favourite guilty pleasure.
Max interviews some of the world’s best swimmers specially chosen by FINA to train at the state of the art Thanyapura, Phuket ahead of the 2016 Olympics.This video gives a sneak peek at their daily routine and the swimmers insights on what it takes to be a young athlete training to be the best in the world.
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You never know what you’ll see during a photo safari, especially one led by Frans Lanting, a world-famous photographer with decades of experience photographing wildlife around the world. But even he notes that, “This is the most unbelievable lion encounter that I’ve had in my entire career.”
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