Tag Archive | "sea"
The Incredible Myth Behind the Feejee Mermaid
On a warm evening in the summer of 1842, the English gentleman Dr. J. Griffin of the British Lyceum of Natural History encountered something strange while wandering alone on a deserted tropical beach. Even his learned mind was ill-prepared for what lay around the next bend on this particular evening. There on the white sands, gasping its last breath, was a being seemingly ripped from the pages of mythology itself...
Continue reading...Where Majestic and Deadly Rays Glide Beneath the Waves
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
This image featuring a whale shark, a school of stingrays and another school of unidentified yellow fish almost appears more like a painting than a photo, so fortuitously full of life does it seem. Yet for all the majesty and beauty of the other creatures in this shot, it is the rays that take centre stage. Gliding through the depths, wing-like pectoral fins outspread as they ride the ocean currents, rays are the free birds of the blue, swimming with a grace that is difficult to fathom.
Continue reading...10 Incredible Images of Big Waves from Below
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Driven by the wind, waves are the chariot horses of the open seas, some of them galloping thousands of miles before they are brought to a halt, breaking as they reach land. These surfers' steeds are found in all sizes, from colt-like ripples to colossal rogue waves, but rarely are they seen from beneath, and rarer still is the commotion they conjure below the ocean's surface captured in all its beauty on camera.
Continue reading...When Beaches Become Giant Sand Art Canvases
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Peter Donnelly is an artist who can truly claim to see the bigger picture while attending to the devil that's in the detail. He is also an artist who is far from precious about his work, since few mediums can be as transitory as the one he chooses to work in. While humankind has surely been creating artworks out of sand since long before we have been able to preserve any trace of their existence, few sand artists can have worked on such a scale as Pete Donnelly.
Continue reading...Lakes… 650ft Beneath the Waves!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Deep beneath the waves, far down on the ocean floor are scenes often associated with the stuff of nightmares – translucent fish with wide black eyes capable of seeing in the dark, shell fish with bioluminescent skeletons and colossal squid, so huge that no one has yet to picture them. All these creatures, though bizarre, are somehow quite expected but it’s doubtful whether many people would imagine a lake lying down there, too.
Continue reading...Rothschild Sails Across the Pacific on a Piece of Junk
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Our friends at Men's Vogue recently featured an interesting interview with eco-adventurer, David de Rothschild, and although he may be a member of one of the world's most famous banking families, he's far from being all about the deal - his environmental interests have taken him across the globe from New Zealand to the frozen ice caps of Greenland and now the intrepid explorer is about to embark on one of his most challenging expeditions to date: crossing the Pacific on a boat made of garbage!
Continue reading...Oil Spill Threatens Argentine Capital
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Image via Wikipedia An oil spill 20 kilometers long is heading towards Buenos Aires and may have greater catastrophic effects if it reaches land.
Continue reading...$500M in Sunken Treasure, and Other Great Discoveries Undersea
Friday, May 2, 2008
Image from slava The news broke yesterday that the richest shipwreck of all time had been discovered– over 500 Million USD worth of gold and silver coin–had been found in an “undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean.” This is hardly the first time a private enterprise has gone [...]
Continue reading...Five Sunken Warships, Submerged Beneath The Sea
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Since time immemorial man has been dividing himself into tribes of one form or another, and since he first learned how to swim, that fight has included a nautical component. As our technology has advanced, we’ve been left with these ghostly images of retired and destroyed [...]
Continue reading...Squid Beaks Make Awesome Prosthetic Limbs
Friday, March 28, 2008
It’s possible this is the freakiest medical breakthrough I’ve ever seen; scientists are trying to figure out how to make prosthetic limbs out of squid beaks. Image from vanveelen on Flickr Scientists have apparently been mystified for some time at just how an animal with no
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Monday, October 12, 2009
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