Category: Nature
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Human remains found in search for woman ‘taken’ by large shark in Australia
See CNN A cap and goggles belonging to a 63-year-old woman presumed to have been “taken” by a large shark while swimming off the coast of Australia have been found, along with human remains, police said Friday. The search for Christine Armstrong was ongoing Friday morning, New South Wales Police said in a statement. Armstrong…
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15 Divers Took Turns Swimming With Dying Tiger Shark To Save Its Life
See Sunny Skyz A dying tiger shark off Australia was nursed back to life by divers who took turns swimming with the shark for one and a half hours in an effort to keep it upright and to get oxygen into its gills. Just as the conservationists were about to give up, the shark kicked,…
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Police officers held drowning bull’s head above water for 3 hours
See ABC Action News, via Arbroath “I saw big nostrils going underwater and staying underwater with water blowing out,” Ammons said. An animal lover herself, she didn’t hesitate to jump into the retention pond to rescue the bull. “I stripped everything off that the sheriff’s office really cares about,” she joked. “And then I got…
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The Sailfish’s Dance In Action
We where lucky and found lost of this magnificent hunters in plain action, unfortunately for me, my underwater camera had some leaking and I decided to leave it on the boat. Fortunately, my friend Carlos Mendieta was kind enough to lend me his Go Pro Hero 3 Camera, which we used to take several shots…
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Sarah Lee – Water Photographer: Capturing What You Can’t Control
Water photographer Sarah Lee loves the unpredictability of nature and creates art that captures the interplay of people, water, and light. Unlike other forms of photography, where pixels are painstakingly crafted, Sarah embraces what she can’t control and uses her photography to find beauty in the chaos.
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Swimming cat from Watford enjoys water-based physiotherapy
See Watford Observer When a Watford couple told their vet they were going to treat their cat’s broken leg with swimming lessons he “almost killed himself laughing”, however the unorthodox therapy has proved just the ticket. Ra, an Egyptian Mau, had an accident last October and fractured his left femur. The rare breed has been…
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The Penguin Dilemma (Translated)
A group of Emperor penguins encounter a piece of string across their path. Funny in itself, but even funnier here with an English translation :-D
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Headed to Amazon, David Beckham warned about Candiru, the urethra invading ‘vampire fish’
Read NY Daily News David Beckham was warned off swimming in the Amazon during the recent shooting of a documentary — for fear of a deadly fish swimming into his genitalia, sources tell Confidenti@l. The 38-year-old Becks, famously nicknamed “Goldenballs,†was told by the production’s medical supervisors not to go for a dip during filming…