By TRINA LAGURA
abs-cbnNEWS.com
For Vanessa Garon, no amount of training could prepare her for what she saw when she dived into the waters of Romblon to search and retrieve the bodies of passengers trapped inside the capsized MV Princess of the Stars.
“It’s like you could almost feel their panic, you […]
Two women workers cleaning a catch of puffer fish.
JOHOR BARU: The Health Ministry has issued a warning against eating puffer fish following 36 cases of food poisoning which resulted in two deaths.
Centre for Disease Control director Datuk Dr Hasan Abd Rahman said all the cases were in Johor.
“There have been six episodes of food poisoning […]
It certainly beats watching a lonely goldfish swimming round its tiny bowl.
This is one of the world’s biggest fish tanks - so big that it’s even been named the Kuroshio Sea.
Located in the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, the enormous tank is some ten metres deep, 35 metres wide and 27 metres long.
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Sara Butler (pic:Adam Butler)
She’s known as Dolphin Girl - the diver who can hold her breath for an incredible four-and-a-half minutes.
She already has the world record for diving 90 metres deep. And next week Londoner Sara Campbell aims to go even deeper with her amazing monofin.
But that’s just the start of it… this summer […]
Charlotte Allin, Ernest Lewandowski and Kathleen Mitchinson
Three British divers who were swept away with two other Europeans during a dive off Indonesia have been found safe after managing to swim to a remote beach on an island 25 miles away.
The 36-hour ordeal saw them carried to the neighbouring island by strong currents while they […]
Three British divers are missing, feared dead after disappearing in treacherous waters off the coast of a remote Indonesian island.
ALAMY
Komodo National Park, Indonesia: the area is notorious for its strong currents
Charlotte Allin, 24, her boyfriend Jim Manning and Kathleen Mitchinson, their diving instructor, were last seen on Thursday during a dive off Tawa Besar island, […]
HMS Superb
Navy officers in charge of a nuclear submarine badly damaged when it hit rocks could be court-martialled.
A Ministry of Defence probe has begun into the Red Sea smash involving the £32million HMS Superb.
The MoD yesterday said all 112 crew would give statements and added: “A board of inquiry will look at what […]
PARIS - Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France’s Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known.
The life-sized bust showing the Roman ruler with wrinklesand hollows in his face is tentatively dated to 46 B.C. […]
April 30: In this photo provided by Harpo Productions, Inc., magician David Blaine is shown inside a sphere where he set a new world record
CHICAGO — David Blaine set a new world record Wednesday for breath-holding — 17 minutes and 4 seconds — fulfilling what he said was “a lifelong dream.”
The feat was broadcast live during […]
In a sight never previously witnessed an orangutan uses a sharpened stick to try and spear fish.
In pictures: Orangutans go fishing
The hugely powerful creature uses fingers and toes to anchor himself on the branches of a tree overhanging the water.
The orangutan used a fishermen’s poles to try and spear the fish but didn’t quite have […]
