Meeting the Coelacanth, a living fossil
0Divers off the coast of South Africa came face to face with a “Living Fossil”, the Coelacanth (from Latin Cœlacanthus “hollow spine”). This 400 million years old species was thought to have disappeared 65 million of years ago but it has been discovered alive in 1938. The discovery shook the scientific …
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La Calypso’s Doctor Passed Away
Denis Martin-Laval (far right on the picture), was for long the doctor aboard Jacques Cousteau’s famous “La Calypso” ship. He passed away at the age of 82 years. He attended many missions alongside the Cousteau team and participated in the shooting of the documentary “The …
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Photo session with naked model at Jellyfish Lake in Palau
It’s always nice to see Todd Essick during a nude model shooting session. This session happened in 2009 while the model was swimming at the famous Jellyfish Lake in Palau. For info, jellifish are not harmful as they don’t have any predators to fear in the lake. Underwater fine art photographer …
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Phantom Springs Cave Expedition 2013
By Liquid Productions, LLC Phantom Springs cave are located in the desert of Texas. It’s known as the deepest natural underwater cave system in the USA as exploration divers have dived up to 462ft/140.8m making a record of it! It’s a closed site and only divers with special scientific permit are allowed …
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Underwater photographer, Jason Isley, mixes toy figures with fish in surreal underwater scenes
Underwater photographer Jason Isley imagine some fun art pictures. After having practiced underwater photography for long and on many kinds of subjects, Jason Isley, originally from the UK, had the brilliant idea of creating surrealistic scenes by joining human figures to underwater life. Isley is …
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Speared by a marlin
This is not a new (Fall 2008) but spectacular footage showing school of striped marlins attacking a shoal of sardines off Baja California, Mexico. Sardines are crunched or speared by the marlins while whales are swallowing a huge quantity of fish and sealions, which also …
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Sperm whales adopt deformed dolphin
Another stirring story about dolphins filmed by Alexander Wilson (Official clip). This deformed dolphin has been adopted, around the Açores, by a shoal of whales which has understood it was endangered. What a nice solidarity example between different species. See also the last stories: Dolphin seeking for help from …
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Dolphin seeking for help from divers
This is a spectacular clip of an injured dolphin seeking for help from divers. The bottlenose dolphin had a hook attached to a fishing line entangled to its pectoral fin and it couldn’t swim properly. It’s amazing how it gets close to the divers asking for help, during a manta …
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Attempted rape by a dolphin in Grand Cayman
This clip filmed by Michael Maes while diving in Grand Cayman Cayman Islands shows a rape attempt by a dolphin on Michael himself and on the very sexy Alex Mustard (if we believe the dolphin). It’s apparently a very sad and bored dolphin living alone after having been …
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Manta rays slaughtering
Manta rays are slaughtered all around the world. Manta Trust is making a great job to save them and to help people to know the manta rays better. They have organized an important petition to save the manta rays that you and everyone else should sign. …
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