Like a "modern-day pirate," 75-year-old Ray Ives has been diving for sunken treasure for decades. Wearing an ancient, bronze-helmeted diving suit, he searches the ocean floor and keeps a huge collection of marine salvage (including antique cannon balls, 'bottles, bells, swords, portholes and diving gear') in a shipping container "museum" at a British marina.
Ray: A Life Underwater:
Vimeo /
YouTube. (A short film documentary.)
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posted by zarq
on Sep 23, 2011 -
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Shallow diver breaks world record for paddling pool jump. "A US shallow diver has broken his own world record by swan-diving 36ft (11m) into a paddling pool containing just 12in (30.5cm) of water.
Darren Taylor, also known as
Professor Splash, dived into a pool of near-freezing water in Trondheim, Norway, making the jump his 13th Guinness certified record.
Mr Taylor, who is from Colorado in the US, has 25 years' professional high-diving experience and works as a stunt diver."
Via: BBC
posted by Fizz
on Mar 18, 2011 -
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Want to create a video of a steady stream of divers simultaneously using the 10 and 3-metre platforms at the diving pool? Get a lot of fellows together, or just
Fake It (SLYT; 3.43).
Original site (Japanese).
posted by bwg
on Jan 2, 2011 -
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Rising up from deep within the aquifer, cool clear water flows from hundreds of springs that dot the Florida landscape.
Florida springs are natural wonders that are threatened constantly.
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posted by netbros
on Dec 24, 2009 -
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"To pedal the 3700 kilometres of open water from Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa to Barbados in the Caribbean should take around 50 days..." Engineer and machinist Ted Ciamillo has built a human powered
mini-submarine, designed around a larger version of his Lunocet carbon-fibre "tail" for
divers, for an
Atlantic Ocean crossing.... The "
SubHuman project".
posted by Kronos_to_Earth
on Jan 29, 2009 -
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At the Beijing Olympics this summer there is a camera that follows divers through the air until they hit the water's surface in glorious high-definition. The DiveCam was originally invented by Garrett Brown, the inventor of the Steadicam, and was first used in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. What new technology made this innovation possible?
The power of gravity and pulleys.
posted by HaloMan
on Aug 14, 2008 -
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Seventy four years ago,
something happened off La Jolla Shores, California, that changed the world of ocean recreation forever. An invitation-only group of watermen, the
Bottom Scratchers became the
founding fathers of free diving. Although the club would eventually grow to only 20 members, the men did everything they could to grow the sport and teach others how to spear fish, keep a good spear gun or get lobsters and abalone on breath-held dives.
posted by miss lynnster
on Feb 14, 2008 -
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Having served as a troop transport in WWII, a luxury liner, and a sea cadet training vessel, the
Texas Clipper will come to her final resting place
tomorrow as part of an artificial reef in the Texas Gulf. During preparations for sinking, a long lost mural (
1 2 3 4) by
Saul Steinberg, best known for his
work at The New Yorker, was rediscovered hidden behind wallpaper and paint and saved from a watery grave.
posted by Orb
on Nov 15, 2007 -
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In the August edition of Outside Magazine, Tim Zimmerman chronicles the story of divers Deon Dreyer and Dave Shaw. Dreyer, a 20-year-old experienced diver, died in 1994 while exploring Bushman's Cave in Boesmansgat, South Africa, the third deepest cave in the world. In October 2004, Dave Shaw, while diving to the bottom of Bushman's Cave, discovered the body of Deon Dreyer and, tying a line to him, promised to recover the body for Dreyer's family. A few months later, in January 2005,
Shaw died in the attempt, unintentionally
filming his own death. Both bodies have since been recovered.
posted by Moral Animal
on Aug 3, 2005 -
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Friday Fun Might as well be Friday, really, especially in Texas where we're shutting down the state due to snow. Here's a fun, free online game where you can make penguins dive all day long without getting tired (you OR them). Highly reminiscent of playing too hard for too long doing the same thing over and over when you were a kid, except you don't have to wait for your turn. Or come home in wet, cold clothes crying. You're Everypenguin.
posted by sparky
on Dec 22, 2004 -
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