Cave Diving

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures, Travel & Places on September 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Jill Heinerth has spent the past 14 years exploring underwater caves all over the world. Wired has a gallery of beautiful photographs she’s taken in underwater caves, lava tubes, and glaciers. This picture was taken at Devil’s Eye Spring off the coast of northern Florida. Link -via Digg

 
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The Spider with an Aqualung

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal on July 29, 2009 at 9:38 pm


The diving bell spider breathes air, but spends its life underwater! To achieve this feat, this spider spins a cocoon that works as an aqualung. The spider traps tiny bubbles of air in the hairs of her legs and brings them underwater to store in the cocoon. The air bubble is also a nest for its young. See more pictures at Environmental Graffiti. Link -via Unique Daily

 
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Man Held Breath for 18 Minutes Underwater

Posted by Alex in Sports, World Records on November 30, 2008 at 1:36 pm

How long can you hold your breath underwater? Me? A minute, tops!

Well, however long you can hold your breath, I betcha it’s nothing when compared to what Gianluca Genoni just did: he set a new world record for breath-holding, handily beating what David Blaine did (7 minutes) and the previous world record:

Gianluca Genoni held his breath for 18 minutes 3.69 seconds while lying underwater in a Mantua swimming pool, beating German diver Tom Sietas, who managed 17 minutes 19 seconds in September – also on live TV – to unseat Blaine from the Guinness world record book.

Link – via Underwater Times

 
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