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Take 5 minutes of relax in the Kuroshio Sea

In Japan there's a huge aquarium, actually the world's second largest behind the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, called Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. The flagship of this aquarium is the main tank, called the Kuroshio Sea, that holds 7,500 cubic metres (1,981,000 USgal) of water and features an acrylic glass panel measuring 8.2 by 22.5 metres (27 by 74 ft) with a thickness of 60 centimetres (24 in), the largest such panel in the world when the aquarium was opened. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept alongside more than 60 other fish species.


In the video above you can see "The Kuroshio Sea" tank fimeld by Jon Rawlinson, a filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada, specialized in documentary and commercial production.
My advice is to open the video full screen, with HD enabled and music on: you'll enjoy 5 minutes of pure relax in the middle of the ocean...

You can also download the following picture as a wallpaper clicking here


©Jon Rawlinson

©Jon Rawlinson 

Andy Irons Memorial Paddle-Out

Surfers raise their arms in honor of the late Andy Irons during a paddle out memorial service in Porta Del Sol, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.

A few hundred surfers from the northern beaches community gathered for a tribute paddle-out to celebrate the life of American surfer Andy Irons.
The three-times world champion died suddenly last week, aged just 32, just a month before he was due to become a first-time father. The three-times world champion was found dead at a hotel in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, November 2.
Irons had reportedly been suffering from Dengue Fever in the lead-up to his shock death and had pulled out of a surfing event in Puerto Rico late last month to battle the viral infection.

Tennis-ball sized hail and a flash flood

Stumbling through the web I've found this video, taken October 25th in Georgia, of an epic hailstorm hammering a backyard with tennis-ball sized hail hitting the pool just like cannonballs. Unbelievable.

If that was not enough in the following video, taken in Woodson, Texas, the hail is probably even bigger, like an angry god trying to lapidate the whole mankind... take a look at the damages in the second part of the video:



Finally, a third video from Melbourne. Here the hail size is less impressive but wait just a minute or so and you'll see how the hailstorm suddenly triggers a flash-flooding transforming a street in a river (and an angry one):




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The bubblesmith

Sterling Johnson is a "bubblesmith", better, he is The Bubblesmith!
According to his own website he is the only performer who specializes in blowing bubbles using only his hands.
His bubble blowing to entertain friends over 30 years ago has developed into a full stage show. Sterling is the only person to ever put a bubble inside a bubble inside a bubble on stage without any straws or tubes, and the first person to walk completely through a bubble film. To make it brief, speaking of bubblues he is the True Professional!
In the video above you can see an amazing public preformance at Stinson beach.
Here below there is the reversed and slow-motion version, maybe even more amazing!:



if you can't get enouugh you can see also the the "just reverse" and the "just slow-motion" versions!

How cats and dogs drink

The act of drinking may seem like no big deal for anyone who can fully close his mouth to create suction, as people can. But the various species that cannot do so — and that includes most adult carnivores and our cats and dogs — must resort to some other mechanism, so if you have wondered how our pets drink this is the post for you:



The news is that using high speed cameras, a group of researchers uncovered the mystery of how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose. Many people think that the raspy hairs on a cat’s tongue, must be involved in this process, instead they're mainly related to the process of grooming. Cats lap water so fast that the human eye cannot follow what is happening, which is why the trick had apparently escaped attention until now. They discovered that cats touch the surface of liquids with their tongues (up to four times per second) before quickly pulling back up, causing a stream of liquid to rise upward. Before gravity pulls the stream back down, the cat closes its mouth around some of it, capturing the liquid. The process is quite different from dogs, which cup the water using their tongues and haul it back into their mouths... probably more efficient but noisier and absolutely less elegant!



Dog owners are familiar with the unseemly lapping noises that ensue when their thirsty pet meets a bowl of water. The dog is thrusting its tongue into the water, forming a crude cup with it and hauling the liquid back into the muzzle. What it's strange in this case is that the "cup" is made twisting the tongue downward and backward towards the lower jaw, in the opposite way you might suppose:

The perpetual sinking boat

This boat may look like it's sinking fast, but don't worry, it's perfectly upright. That's because this boat, called "Love Love," was designed by artist Julien Berthier to look like it's in the process of going under!

The floating sculpture is made from a large sailboat that has been modified to appear as if it is capsizing. Despite its appearance the boat is fully functional and able to move around thanks to a built-in motor. To create it the artist cut in half a 6.5 meter yacht and added a new keel to allow the boat to remain upright in the sinking position. Since its construction Berthier has taken the boat out on numerous trips inside harbours like Canary Wharf in London and in Normandy, France.

When a Great White Shark enter the cage that should protect you

Every time I saw one of those cages that are used to allow people to see the great white sharks in their own environment I've always felt a mix of adrenaline and fear, it should be absolutely fantastic but also scaring as hell... well, after seeing this footage from a 2007 accident, I've finally decided: Cage Diving is not for me!
Read here what happened in the words of the protagonist, cameraman Patrick Walsh:

"A 2 ton, 15 foot Great White barrels into my cage and brakes through the bars... Patrick Walsh - Filming
Paul Damgaard - Avoiding Sharks Mouth
CC - The Shark
"On November 4th we had an incident that was pretty darned exciting. CC, or Cut Caudal, one of our regular sharks, accidentally ran into one of the main cages on the Searcher. CC came up nearly vertical about 20 feet away from the cage and grabbed one of the hang baits, which he is known to do on a regular basis. However, on this particular day he swam right into the portside cage's viewing window. As CC took the bait he instinctively rolled his eyes back, couldn't see where he was going and accidentally swam directly into the viewing window. CC's entire head went inside the cage and he was stopped just short of his pectoral fins. Well, we all know that white sharks have no reverse and CC was too far in to turn around. He tried to turn, but he could not quite get his snout to clear the corner. He rolled on his side and began to thrash up and down trying to free himself. Being a rather large white shark he just ended up making the opening bigger by simply removing the front of the cage so he could get out of the cage. CC literally removed all the lower front vertical bars and the horizontal bar that connects all of the vertical bars to the main frame of the front cage panel and then swam away. What was amazing is that it took only about 10 seconds to do this. What was even more amazing was that there were 2 divers in the cage at the time and they thought that this was the coolest thing they had ever experienced and walked away completely unscathed. The divers also said that CC was just fine too!
We were all very relieved that no one was injured. We were also pleased that our divers listened to the safety briefing prior to diving and followed the instructions and evacuated the cage when this incident occurred. One diver utilized the emergency escape hatch and somehow managed to film the entire event. We learned something from this and we will take appropriate measures to prevent this from happening again.
When we said, "You can get face-to-face with the ultimate predator" this is not what we had in mind!"

Over 100 km/h with a kite surf. New World Record

Lüderitz is a harbour town in south-west Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa. It is a port developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island but most of all Lüderitz is home to the Lüderitz Speed Challenge, the only international sporting event held in the town. This is an annual month-long speed sailing event held in the last quarter of the year under the auspices of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC).
Due to the particular wind conditions over there, always strong and regular, almost all the sailing speed record attempts are held in that part of Namibian Coast. The Luderitz Speed Challenge in particular is the benchmark speed event and yields world records every year. This year all the focus was on the kiters because with the improved trench, it was very likely that the outright sailing record held by the Hydroptere would have been reclaimed by one of them. And so it was! In an amazing escalation, record breaking after record breaking, for the first time in history a man propelled by the wind broke the wall of the 100 km/h. At the end of the event the new outright record holder is Rob Douglas who reached 55,65 knots (103km/h or 64mp/h) with 45knots of wind.
And it's not just a matter of speed and technical ability, it's mainly a  question of courage because these incredible athletes had to surf in a channel of very shallow waters just one meter, one meter and a half wide!!
Unbelievable. Enjoy the video of the record:



This is instead the video presentation of the event, in the aerial footage you can have a clear idea of how tight was the channel....:




Photo by Adrien Freville - www.byadrienfreville.fr
Rob Douglas breaking the world record with 55.65 knots.


Photo by Adrien Freville - www.byadrienfreville.fr
Sebastien Cattelan is the new record holder of France and Europe with 55.49 (1st to 55 knots).
He held the outright for 1 hour before Rob improved upon it.


Photo by Adrien Freville - www.byadrienfreville.fr
Charlotte Consorti did 48.5 on the display, followed 30 minutes later by Sophie Routboul with 48.64 speed.
Sophie could only do 2 runs as she has a broken hand.
Charlotte went back out later and did 50.43. The first lady over 50 knots !!!

For more info check the event website

Sea Lions vs Octopus

National Geographic delights us with this first ever video of sea lions hunting a large octopus. The footage is from a project intended to help save the endangered sea lions, in part by uncovering where and how the animals eat. It has been realized thanks to a Crittercam, the small package of instruments including a camera that can be attached to a wild animal to study its behaviour in the wild. Crittercam was invented by National Geographic marine biologist Greg Marshall in 1986. Since than it has been employed in studies on over 40 marine and terrestrial animals and on the Emperor Penguin obtaining the footagr used in the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins.

Alpina Surfover 2010

©Carlo Borlenghi
If you are close to the Alpina Hütte, Corviglia, St.Moritz, Switzerland and skiing in one of the most beautiful mountains all over the world isn't fun enough for you, you may evaluate the idea of taking part to the Alpina Surfover. What is it?
The images expplains it better than a thousand words: a pool of icy water to surf over in any way you can imagine, cool guys absurdly dressed and a lot of fun. One week ago it was the 2010 edition and Carlo Borlenghi was there:

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

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©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

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