Category: Nature
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Swimmer Mauled to Death by Great White Shark in front of Hundreds of Tourists on New Zealand Beach
The family of the man killed in a shark attack at Muriwai Beach on Auckland’s west coast say they are “in deep shock.” Husband and father of one Adam Strange died after being attacked while swimming from Maori Bay around a headland into Muriwai, around 200m offshore.
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46-year-old Adam Strange killed by shark off New Zealand
Award-winning short film director Adam Strange was killed by a great white shark off the coast of New Zealand today, at Muriwai, a popular surfing beach near Auckland. Mr Strange, who has worked across the world, has made television commercials for companies such as Pepsi, Toyota and Samsung, and won a Crystal Bear award for best short…
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Giant isopod fasts for 4 years, still doesn’t care to eat
Minders at the Toba Aquarium in Japan say a male giant isopod know as “No. 1” last ate now more than 1500 days ago, on 2 January 2009, a horse mackerel which it devoured in just five minutes. That’s 18 days before President Obama began his first term. They’ve tried everything, but the animal justs…
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Great Scottish Swim 2013 moved from Strathclyde Loch to Loch Lomond over pollution fears
Read Inside The Games Europe’s biggest open-water swimming series, the Great Swim, has moved its event in Scotland to Loch Lomond after the 2012 race at Strathclyde Loch had to be cancelled because of the poor quality of the water and fears competitors would get ill.
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Chinese official declines $30,000 bet to swim in Ruian river, says it is people not industry that polluted it
Oh the irony, read the Guardian Last week, an eyeglass-retailer executive from Rui’an City, coastal Zhejiang province, offered the city’s environmental protection chief Bao Zhenming more than £20,000 to take a 20-minute dip in a highly polluted local river. The entrepreneur, Jin Zengmin, posted the dare to his microblog beneath pictures showing the waterway overflowing…
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Feelgood freedive in Norway – Gulen
“Freediving in Gulen on a crisp, clear and sunny day in february. Kristoffer find`s his first scallops in 20+ meters visibility. What a day!” Feelgood freedive in Norway – Gulen from frivannsliv on Vimeo.
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Swimming with sharks at the Idaho Aquarium
“Our own Spencer Blake jumped right in when the Idaho Aquarium gave him the chance to mingle with the ocean’s most-feared beasts.”
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Surrender to Swimming
“While driving along the road as the sun was rising, we noticed how many people were taking an early morning swim in tidal pools. We wanted to capture this idea, hoping to inspire others to go out and explore the many tidal pools across our beautiful coastline.”