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Showing posts with label Diving. Show all posts

5/20/25

DIVER SWIMS IN SEA FULL OF PLASTIC POLLUTION

Diver Rich Horner  Excerpt: Diver Rich Horner has captured video of himself swimming through water densely strewn with plastic waste and yellowing food wrappers, with the occasional tropical fish darting around.

The footage was shot at a dive site called Manta Point, a cleaning station for the large rays on the island of Nusa Penida, about 20km from the popular Indonesian holiday island of Bali. 'Plastic, plastic, plastic': British diver films sea of rubbish off Bali

9/7/24

Y-40 THE DEEP JOY POOL IN PADUA ITALY

The Y-40 The Deep Joy Pool in Padua Italy has a depth of 42.5 meters deep, thus entering into the Guinness World Book Records in 2014.  It is a thermal pool of freshwater and another architectural masterpiece.  It features the world's first underwater bridge, which is transparent, as well as the world first artificial caves, giving a diver a new experience if they have not been in the ocean.  For you mer-people wanna-bes there is a monofiln experience.


9/5/24

DEEPEST SWIMMING POOLS IN THE WORLD! : NEMO 33 is 33 METERS DEEP (WOULD YOU DARE TO GO THAT FAR DOWN?)

NEMO 33 held the record for some time and it exists in Brussels, Belgium.  Pools like this are architectural achievements and provide thrill-seekers who dive or freedive (no oxygen equipment) an opportunity to experience a strange water environment, which, unlike a lake or ocean is free of marine animals and other hazards.  It could still be very scary. People from all over the world go to experience the pool. Some to experience what it is to have so much water above you. Some to practice for deep sea dives.  Unlike the ocean water, Nemo 33 water is warm and considered tropical, and the water is non-chlorinated fresh water.  It held the Guinness World Record as the deepest indoor pool in the world from 2004 for about a decade.

According to various web sites on water pressure, at 33 feet down deep in the ocean there is a total pressure of 29.4 pounds per square inch being exerted on a body.  Adjustments to oxygen are needed. But in water man can experience weightlessness.


4/25/23

SEA PEN SHAPED LIKE A SAXAPHONE FOUND IN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA HARBOR - IT GLOWS WITH BIOLUMINESCENCE and is COVERED IN SLIME!

 Gotta see those photos!

DAILY MAIL : SEA PEN THAT LOOKS LIKE SAXAPHONE

Excerpt: Australian Museum's marine invertebrates head Professor Shane Ahyong confirmed what type of creature it was.

'They are relatively common in the eastern part of the harbour, well below the tideline, and so are sually only seen by snorkelers and divers,' Dr. Ahyong told Yahoo.

The sea pen in question had notable bumps on the bottom of it and a long stalk, with the way it was laid on cement in the photo closely resembling a saxophone's shape.

4/15/22

ANIMALOGIC PRESENTS A VIDEO ON SEALS

This video is informative and fun and I loved the art too : From Animalogic.  In a lifetime the most dominant Elephant Seal can sire 500 pups. But he sure does have to fight it out to do so. The females choose!?  They can hold their breath for a hundred minutes while the harbor seals can hold it for 30.