Category: Nature
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Rick Moore swam through blood to rescue Maui shark-attack victim
Read The Seattle Times A woman who lost her arm in a Maui shark attack kept repeating that she was going to die, the California high schoolteacher who jumped into the water to save her said. “As soon as we stand on the beach, we heard this bloodcurdling scream,†said Rick Moore, 57, of Laguna…
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Banksy turns dolphin kiddie ride into anti-BP statement
Nice one, see BoingBoing Graffiti/street artist Banksy has built and installed a BP-leak-themed dolphin ride on Brighton Pier. The coin-op ride offers trenchant commentary on the light liability borne by BP for its role in the poisoning of the gulf. Plus, it looks like a lot of fun!
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GoPro: Diving with Ocean Hounds
Sam Stewart and Kelly Smith dive with curious Sea Lions in South Australia.
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Crazy gymnasts turned cliff divers, we’ve got that too
Frankly, I don’t approve, as they seem to ignore safety precautions when jumping 7, 15, 16 and even 25 meters into the cold and untamed Atlantic. We’re talking about remote places in the Faroe Islands, which it would take the ambulance a good while to get to. But the videos are nice.
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7-year-old Sophia Martinez loves swimming with the whale sharks
See CBSLocal.com Seven-year-old Sophia Martinez from Alamo, TX went diving with her dad at Isla Mujeres off the coast of Mexico. It wasn’t your average dip in the ocean. Sophia went swimming with sharks. Big sharks. 20-ton whale sharks to be specific. And manta rays.
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NewScientist: Forget doggy paddle – apes prefer breaststroke
Read New Scientist Different strokes for different folks? Not when it comes to the aquatic ape: the first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orang-utans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply that we may owe our swimming style to our evolutionary past. http://youtu.be/VrXi3_G-1yk
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Friendly dolphin catches 10 lb cod, gives it to 14-year-old girl
Read swns.com via Arbroath 14-year-old Lucy Watkins and her grandparents were canoeing off the Devon coast in England, when a dolphin came by and started swimming around their canoes. To their astonishment, the animal dove down and dropped a massive cod next to Lucy, and started nudging it towards the teenager. Unsure still whether the…
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Experts warn swimmers of testicle-chomping fish in Øresund
Via Jyllands-Posten (in English) The pacu is a South American freshwater fish that can grow up to 25 kilos (55 lbs). It is related to the piranha, but is mainly vegetarian and has squarer, straighter molar-like teeth to crush fruit and nuts with. Believed to have been introduced in Papua New Guinea to aid local…