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A young couple have gone missing off the coast of Australia after presumably going overboard while traveling on a Carnival cruise ship.
A massive search mission is underway with several ground and air teams searching for Paul Rossington, 30, and Kristen Schroder, 27.
The pair boarded the Carnival Spirit ship and th... |
9 May 2013
09:53 GMT |
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The FBI are investigating the death of a passenger on the Enchantment of the Seas Royal Caribbean cruise ship. A report on the Royal Caribbean Blog noted that a 64-year-old female guest died on Sunday, March 27, while in her cabin. She was found by her husband who went on to alert the cruiseliner crew. The company... |
27 March 2013
04:47 GMT |
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One month after Carnival Cruises' Triumph ship has famously experienced mechanical difficulties last month, leaving 4,000 passengers with no toilets or air conditioning for five days, two more ships report mechanical issues.
The Legend ship, carrying 2,124 people, is being forced to return to Tampa instead of c... |
15 March 2013
11:49 GMT |
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Twelve-year-old Joshua McQuoid from New Zealand was lucky enough to be saved from drowning by beachgoers forming a human chain.
You can see the chain forming in the clip above, and people joining hands to help save the little boy. According to Stuff New Zealand, McQuoid was at the beach at 4.55 p.m. when he was swep... |
11 March 2013
11:12 GMT |
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More than 100 passengers on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship have become ill while on a trip, forcing the ship to return to Port Everglades, Florida.
The Vision of the Seas has docked after 105 of its 1,991 guests became ill with a stomach virus. Three members of the ship's staff of 772 have also contracted the il... |
9 March 2013
03:32 GMT |
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The Coast Guard is still looking for a sinking sailboat off the coast of Central California. There is no confirmed information about the name of the boat, its location or the names of the passengers at this point.
According to the Star Tribune, authorities know that a family of four, possibly including two children ... |
26 February 2013
03:56 GMT |
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A terrifying video has made its way online in the past week – that of a man getting his hand grabbed by a large fish. The clip was uploaded to YouTube by user newsInworld, and, as we can read in the description, the victim is a man called Ryan Reynolds. The Sun indicates that the “creature”attacki... |
15 January 2013
04:54 GMT |
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Richmond resident Charles Francis Quaid lost his life on New Year's day, as waves swept him off to sea in California. 59-year-old Quaid's death was reported to have happened on the beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore. At 12:30 p.m. January 1, witnesses on the 10-Mile Beach noticed his wife walking ... |
3 January 2013
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Poseidon Undersea Resort is set to be built 40ft under water, off the coast of a Fiji private island. U.S. Submarines, Inc. plans to fit the hotel with 25 suites under water, and another 51 above it.
The images look mesmerizing, and this hotel might just offer an incredible and unique view of the world. Of course, i... |
26 November 2012
11:09 GMT |
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A giant oarfish, or ribbonfish, the likes of which the locals have never witnessed, was washed ashore on Hacienda Beach, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
The fish was spotted at around 10:15 on Friday, near the shore, and appeared to be struggling for air, Huffington Post reports.
Locals couldn't identify the l... |
18 October 2012
05:20 GMT |
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This little crab appears to be holding pom-poms. They are called anemones, and are used to scare off predators. This creature is half an inch to one inch (1,3 - 2,54 cm) tall, and the anemones are quite tiny.
“Pom pom crab dance” was uploaded more than a year ago, but it has just resurfaced, so to say, ... |
11 October 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Chris Todd is a 35-year-old British engineer that plans to cross the Irish Sea on a human hamster wheel raft. The big Irish Sea Crossing, as the man is dubbing it, will be performed in order to raise money for charity.
Funds gathered after this incredible feat will go to the Wiltshire Blind Association and the Royal... |
27 September 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Diver and underwater photographer Yoji Ookata discovered the mysterious circles in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, off the coast of Japan.
Ookata immediately deemed the underwater sculpture a deep sea “mystery circle.”
This complex structure lies 80 ft (25 m) below sea level. It spr... |
24 September 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Almost 100 beluga beluga whales from the Bering Sea are at great risk, according to Russian agencies. Experts warn that these endangered creatures are currently trapped among large floating banks of ice.
Representatives from Russia's nature protection organization state that if rescuers don't act fast, th... |
16 December 2011
03:27 GMT |
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One of the most harmful things associated with global warming and climate change is the fact that the large amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere exceed the ocean's ability to safely store them. This means that the waters will continue to capture CO2, but that the resulting carbonic acid is significantly c... |
2 December 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Ancient Greeks were among the first people to have traded their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle for the sedentary farming ways about eight millennia ago. During the prehistoric times, which lasted until about 4,000 years ago, they constantly developed, as manufacture and trade reached unparalleled greatness in thei... |
12 December 2008
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Google has applied for a new patent, this time for a water-based data center. The company plans to build several systems more or less at a close distance from the shore, as land is continuously being crowded by huge data centers, which use a lot of conventional energy. Each center, if approved by the US Patent &... |
8 September 2008
10:31 GMT |
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1. Gannets and boobies are coastal seabirds famous for their dive for fish. They have been thought to be related to the pelicans, but DNA analysis revealed that their closest relatives are the snakebirds and, more distantly, the cormorants. The oldest known relative of the gannet is the Odontopterix, which lived 50 ... |
12 May 2008
11:27 GMT |
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Toothed whales represent the diving champions of all air-breathing animals. Sperm whales dive at depths of over 1,200 m (3,600 ft) for more than an hour, while Cuvier's beaked whale (a type of toothed whale) holds the record for diving amongst any sea mammal - 1,900 m (6,330 ft), that translate into 190 atmosphe... |
9 May 2008
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Clime can be modeled by living organisms. For instance, it is a well known fact that more rain falls over a forest than over other areas. Termites and ruminants (cows and sheep) release huge amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse effect gas, in the atmosphere. A new research published in the Proceedings of the Nat... |
7 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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1. Since always, penguins have posed a huge issue for taxonomists. No one could say which group of living birds was closest to the penguins, because of their peculiar traits like the wing turned into a flipper and their oddly shaped feathers, which are uniform and resemble small stiff scales. For long, this made biol... |
5 May 2008
09:47 GMT |
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This is one of the most sounding victories of cryptozoology. For long, the giant squids were thought to be just legendary creatures, the kraken of the northern sagas. Later on, the individuals washed ashore helped change this view. In recent years, fishermen even began to capture individuals. The one caught in Februa... |
30 April 2008
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The water, sea water in particular, is the realm of the algae. Algae represent the generic name for several groups of inferior aquatic plants that make photosynthesis. Thus, they require light in order to live. Part of the sunlight is reflected on the surface of the water. As we go deeper, the intensity of sunlight d... |
29 April 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Pearls are the only gemstones of organic origin and the second most valuable after diamonds. Given this, it's no wonder that pearl fishing, even if dangerous and exhausting, is an occupation widely spread on tropical coasts, from the shores of the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico and Panama. The "producers" of... |
29 April 2008
10:14 GMT |
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Nowadays, the seas belong mainly to fish and sea mammals. But during the Mesozoic time, the sea was a reptilian realm. There are very few reptiles living in the sea now compared to the times of the dinosaurs. 1.Today, there are seven species of sea turtles. They appeared during the Jurassic period (200-150 Ma ago), t... |
21 April 2008
11:26 GMT |
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The sea level rise is well understood in the current conditions of global warming. Glaciers and ice sheets are melting fast. But it seems that we are largely unaware of the dimension of the phenomenon, as a new research presented at the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria, this week, shows that b... |
18 April 2008
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A seaside cure may actually harm your health nowadays. A new research published in "Nature Geoscience" shows that we are in fact exposed to ozone smog on the coastal areas.The team led by James Roberts, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colora... |
9 April 2008
03:23 GMT |
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A protected area with multiple functions, Camargue Regional Park was created in 1970, in the department Bouches du Rhone, for protecting various bird species, wetland ecosystems and to find viable methods of exploiting the natural resources without degrading it. In 1990, the 85,000 hectares of the park were labeled a... |
7 April 2008
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Phoenicians made one of the most powerful maritime nations of the Mediterranean. No doubt, their most powerful colony was Carthage, in northern Africa, in today's Tunis, founded in 814 BC by Elissa, the sister of the king Pygmalion of Tyre, after her husband Acerbas was assassinated. Frightened for her life, Eli... |
7 April 2008
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The Bermuda Triangle turned famous because of the publicity made around the disappearance of sea and aerial ships recorded in an area of the Atlantic Ocean, the Sargasso Sea, located east of Florida's shore, including the archipelagos of Bermudas, Bahamas, and the islands of Haiti and Puerto Rico. Many believe t... |
3 April 2008
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The phrase "sex is one of the oldest professions" has got a scientific proof. A recent research published in the journal "Science" describes the oldest known animal "caught in the act." This ancient sexual encounter occurred amongst 565-Ma-old tubular invertebrates called Funisia dorothea.Funisia fossils were found i... |
3 April 2008
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Dolphins are considered the fastest sea mammals. Smaller dolphins reach 35-40 km (22-25 mi) per hour, but the orca or killer whale, that is in fact the world's largest dolphin, reaches 54 km (33 mi) per hour, which is a lot in the water. The question is: why not faster? The answer is given by a new research publ... |
1 April 2008
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Sharks gained their dominance in the seas owing to their formidable teeth-jaws, speed and senses. For hunting, sharks are endowed with keen sight, olfaction and hearing (they pick up sounds from 2 km (1.2 mi) away). The lateral line helps them detect vibrations produced by a struggle in the water, like the convulsion... |
28 March 2008
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Crocodiles are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs (if we exclude birds). Surprisingly or not, they evolved from land animals, fact revealed for example by their longer hind limbs. The first crocodiles during the Triassic (early Mesozoic) even ran on two feet!Now, a Brazilian team has described in a study publi... |
27 March 2008
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One group of huge marine reptiles that dominated the seas during the dinosaur eras (Jurassic and Cretaceous, 200 to 65 Ma ago) was represented by the plesiosaurs, long-necked small-headed carnivore animals with flippers resembling those of the sea turtles. These were the animals that inspired the legend of the Loch N... |
25 March 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Sharks are amongst the least understood creatures. A complex mythology depicting the shark as a mystical animal emerged in many cultures. Polynesian myths and legends talk about Kauhuhu, the shark god, which lives in a deep submarine cave or palace that cannot be seen by anybody. Up to 11 shark-gods are found in the ... |
15 March 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Sea can be as deceptive as a mermaid. There are sea anemones or sea cucumbers, and none of them are plants. There are even sea lilies, only that these "flowers" are related to starfish, sea urchins and... sea cucumbers. Crinoids or sea lilies amaze us through their diversified shapes and colors. Sea lilies are amongs... |
13 March 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Real cases of people saved from drowning by dolphins are known from ancient Greek and Roman stories to the legends of the Polynesians and Maori of the New Zealand. There were cases of dolphins which defended shipwrecked people swimming in the water from shark attacks, till rescue ships appeared. But this behavior is ... |
13 March 2008
07:14 GMT |
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Don't think that tsunamis are something connected only to the Indo-Pacific areas and that summering on the Mediterranean shores is safe. A mega-tsunami devastated eastern Mediterranean in 365 A.D. And this could repeat. A new research published in "Nature Geoscience" has detected the geological fault off the coa... |
11 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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One day, diseased brains may be cured. And I'm not referring to going to a shrink or taking pills. The sea cucumber skin has been the inspiration for a new material that may treat Parkinson's disease and other damages of the nervous tissue. This material could rapidly change from rigid to flexible and vice ... |
10 March 2008
06:17 GMT |
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The killer whale, or orca, is one of those animals with an unmistakable color pattern that cannot fool even an uninitiated person. But now, researchers have taken pictures of a white killer whale near the Aleutian Islands (western Alaska). The beast of the myths turned into reality."I had heard about this whale, but ... |
8 March 2008
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Fishing is an activity well suited for relaxation on a weekend afternoon. Or so everybody thought before watching Deadliest Catch, a Discovery Channel show about the guys that go fishing for King Crab in the waters of the Bering strait. There's a real chance of death and injury there and the sea is pretty unforg... |
28 February 2008
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This seems to be the most extraordinary reptile of the seas to have ever existed. Measuring 15 m (50 ft) in length (as much as a humpback whale) and possessing teeth the size of cucumbers, the giant marine reptile lived 150 million years ago and it was first encountered in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located ju... |
28 February 2008
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1. Seals are of two types: eared seals (sea lions and fur seals) and true seals (earless seals). Scientists thought the eared seals and walruses had a common origin with bears and dogs from an ancestors that lived on northern Pacific shores, while genuine seals had a common origin with otters, in the northern Atlanti... |
27 February 2008
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There is only one true living sea lizard: the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), a native of the Galapagos Islands. Despite their terrific look, with short snout, black eyes, large mouth and the crest of spikes (which are in fact soft at touch), long, flattened and powerful tail, long, sharp claws that give the... |
26 February 2008
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Biscayne National Park is located at the southeastern extremity of the North American continent, in southeastern Florida. It comprises 750 km(300 mi) of islands, clear waters, reef corrals and mangrove forests, preserving Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States.The zone was declared a N... |
26 February 2008
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1. The killer whale or orca is, together with the Great White Shark, the top predator of the oceans. The name of "whale" is deceptive, as this cetacean is not even a toothed whale, but a dolphin. That's right, the largest of all: males can be up to 8 m (26 ft) long and weigh up to 8 tonnes. The mouth is adorned ... |
25 February 2008
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The discovery of the tropical alga Caulerpa taxifolia in the Mediterranean Sea, at the end of the '80s, triggered a great warning signal. The "killer alga" was declared "harmful for the Mediterranean ecosystem", and its rapid reproduction an "ecological catastrophe". The alga appeared to have escaped from the Mo... |
25 February 2008
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1.The populations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and other parts of the southeastern Asia are called Malayan. These people originated in a migration of Mongoloid tribes coming from Taiwan. They first entered Philippines and from there colonized the whole Pacific and Indonesia. But before the Austronesian migrati... |
23 February 2008
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The Bible tells us about the universal deluge, whose unique survivors were Noah and his arch in which he had loaded a pair of each animal species of the Earth. After 150 years of drifting, Noah landed on the Mount Ararat and life turned back to normal. The echoes of catastrophic deluges were found in many civilizatio... |
22 February 2008
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