Category: Nature
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Keith the (lazy) seal tries to hitch a ride on a paddle board
Via Arbroath “It was amazing. We were paddling along when all of a sudden I heard this sound, like heavy breathing. I looked back, and was shocked to see a cute grey seal staring back at me. It was really friendly and tame – it swam right up to my board, and started playing with us. It…
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Jamaican Free Diver Killed By Shark
Read SURF Police identified the victim as 68-year-old George Facey of the western town of Savanna-la-Mar. They said he was among a group of Jamaican fishermen who left the Old Harbour Bay Fishing Beach early in the day and encountered sharks while diving off a remote cay located some three miles off the south coast.…
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Soviet killer dolphins roam the Black Sea as we speak
Read the blog of dolphin scientist guy Justin Gregg After rebooting the Soviet Union’s marine mammal programjust last year with the goal of teaching dolphins to find underwater mines and kill enemy divers, three of the Ukrainian military’s new recruits have gone AWOL. It might not be such a big deal except that these dolphins have been…
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Sea lion pup takes kayak ride
“At the end of a night dive I had quite the surprise when a very cute baby sea lion jumped on my kayak. Was the sea lion pup escaping a shark in the area? Was he cold? Or was he just playing around? In any case,it looks like I now have a new kayaking buddy.…
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Single Breath
“This short movie has been shot in the Maldives, North Male Atoll, during the Manta Rays Season. Since this trip freediving has became a true passion, the sensation of going down without bottle, just lungs, and going a bit deeper everyday to extend my personal frontier, it’s an amazing feeling. In this movie I was…
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Alligator Learns to Swim with a Prosthetic Tail
Read for instance Ecorazzi We’ve seen bunnies in wheelchairs, sea turtles with prosthetic limbs, but as far as the Phoenix Herpetological Society knows, this is the very first alligator learning to swim with a prosthetic tail.
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Seal Pup Slip n’ Slide (surfboard remote camera)
“Newly weaned harbor seal pups make use of my old windsurf board. I mounted a remote GoPro camera and these posers seemed to know exactly where to perform! It had rained that morning and the slip n’ slide ensued.”
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Huge wave crashes proposal, she says ‘yes’ anyway
“I had the most amazing/crazy proposal on the 21st! I was surprised by a song written by my fiancé. He sang it atop a rock surrounded by the ocean waters at Laguna beach. As soon as he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, a HUGE wave completely engulfed us and…