Satellite images appear to show that the ongoing oil spill is coming from a source about two miles (3km) south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The spill consists of a 4-mile black sheen and a 10-mile rainbow sheen, Sam Jones, head of the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, said on Saturday. …
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Indonesian divers on Sunday took advantage of favorable weather and visibility conditions, allowing them to locate parts of the wreckage. Indonesian officials said that they recovered broken pieces of the fuselage with aircraft registration parts 23 meters (75 feet) below the Java Sea. Rescue workers earlier found small pieces of …
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The cause of death set. In Kiev in the past days, divers pulled two bodies from the river Dnieper. Rescuers received a message about detection of the human body in the Dnipro river near the South bridge in the Darnytsia district of the capital. Having arrived to a call place, …
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At the bottom of a Turkish lake, divers found the ruins of the ancient country. The ruins of the fortress, presumably built about 3000 years ago in the times of Urartu, found at the bottom of lake van in Eastern Turkey. It is noted that a structure occupying an area …
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About a hundred predatory fishes swam a few metres from where there were 13 people About a hundred predatory fishes swam a few metres from where there were 13 people. 66-year-old scuba instructor Rick Morgan (Ric Morgan) says that the sharks spotted the divers, but did not respond to them …
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Blue hole is called a sinkhole, filled with water and located below sea level. The divers began studying the big blue hole, located 200 kilometres from Daydream island near the North-Eastern coast of Australia. In a water-filled karst funnel the divers found healthy colonies of coral polyps, although in the …
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It is called “underwater graveyard.” This is one of the most famous places for scuba diving – located in the Egyptian Dahab, the famous “blue hall”. No accurate statistics, but over the last fifteen years there died not less than one hundred thirty people. The cause of these deaths was …
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Curious about the profession of a diver for pearls. Pearl jewelry is the only material of animal origin. Unlike gemstones formed within the earth, pearls are formed in clams, for which a complex process of creating a solid, rounded material is only the consequence of a defensive reaction of the …
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The divers swam with a four-meter shark. These incredible pictures were made by 49-year-old photographer Steve Hinczynski in the Bahamas. A group of divers swam and touched a four-meter tiger sharks weighing 500 pounds, which are known for attacks on people. Among the group of divers was surfer Mike Coots, …
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