Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Insight has launched an impressive campaign called "Dopamine" with the photographer Dustin Humphrey, famous for his pro surfer photography, joining underwater art installations with surf actions. The combination of upside down bedrooms, naked girls on motor bikes and underwater shanty towns with the amazing skill of the Insight surf team (famous pro surfers) and the photographic talents of Dustin Humphrey is amazing. Judge for yourself:
Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Photography Dustin Humphrey
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Photography Dustin Humphrey
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copyright: Josè Delgado/Alinghi
Unlike anyone's expectations Société Nautique de Genève has won the America’s Cup appeal! The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court today ruled in favour of the Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) declaring Club Náutico Español de Vela (CNEV) the rightful Challenger of Record for the 33rd America’s Cup and denying the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) this status.
The decision of the Appellate Division reads: “…...the orders of the Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered March 18, 2008 and May 13, 2008, which, inter alia, declared CNEV's challenge invalid and GGYC the Challenger of Record under the Deed of Gift, should be reversed, on the law, with costs, CNEV declared the Challenger of Record, and, in keeping with the Deed of Gift's requirement that the defender be given at least 10 months' written notice to prepare for the challenge, the 10-month notice period should be tolled until service of a copy of this order.”
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This incredible sequence by Mike Hutchings shows Anthony Tashnick of the U.S. getting airborne during the 2008 Big Wave Africa surfing event held at Dungeons Reef off Cape Town's Hout Bay this Saturday. The wave is so high, the background so gloomy and the water so white that you have more the sensation of looking at an extreme snowboarder going downhil than at a surfer!
Here are other pictures from the same event, some of them are really specacular like the one in which a seal pops up just in front of the surfer, the one in which a surfer is literally plummeting from a wave or the one in which a guy shows a broken board... for sure at this editon of Big Wave Africa big waves did not miss...
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and now a video pointed out by one of our readers:
Photo by Carlo Borlenghi
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A wonderful black and white picture by Carlo Borlenghi is the better way to describe the TP52 Audi MedCup that has taken place in Puerto Portals, For all the rest check Audi MedCup
After a long break I start again with The week through the water presenting you just a bunch of photograph from Reuters desribing the last seven days with images somehow related to water:
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A tourist uses his binoculars at Bagdad beach, some 38 km (23.6 miles) from the border city of Matamoros, prior to predicted arrival of Tropical storm Dolly July 21, 2008. Tropical Storm Dolly churned toward southern Texas on Monday, and forecasters said they expected it to grow into a hurricane before hitting land near the Mexican border later this week.
REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
A man tries to extinguish a fire at an industrial packaging company in Lagos, Nigeria, July 22, 2008.
REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
The National Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, is lit by coloured lights at the Olympic Green in Beijing July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Strong winds caused by Hurricane Dolly strike palm trees and cars in Matamoros July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
Center court is seen photographed through a window covered in water droplets during a rain delay at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto, July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
A family make their way on a flooded street during a rainstorm in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/China Daily
Anthony Tashnick of the U.S. gets airborne during the 2008 Big Wave Africa surfing event held at Dungeons Reef off Cape Town's Hout Bay, July 26, 2008. The event features 24 international and local big wave surfers taking on the reef's 7 metre swells. South Africa's Twiggy Baker won the event. (SOUTH AFRICA)
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A tourist uses his binoculars at Bagdad beach, some 38 km (23.6 miles) from the border city of Matamoros, prior to predicted arrival of Tropical storm Dolly July 21, 2008. Tropical Storm Dolly churned toward southern Texas on Monday, and forecasters said they expected it to grow into a hurricane before hitting land near the Mexican border later this week.
REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
A man tries to extinguish a fire at an industrial packaging company in Lagos, Nigeria, July 22, 2008.
REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
The National Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, is lit by coloured lights at the Olympic Green in Beijing July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Strong winds caused by Hurricane Dolly strike palm trees and cars in Matamoros July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
Center court is seen photographed through a window covered in water droplets during a rain delay at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto, July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
A family make their way on a flooded street during a rainstorm in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province July 23, 2008.
REUTERS/China Daily
Anthony Tashnick of the U.S. gets airborne during the 2008 Big Wave Africa surfing event held at Dungeons Reef off Cape Town's Hout Bay, July 26, 2008. The event features 24 international and local big wave surfers taking on the reef's 7 metre swells. South Africa's Twiggy Baker won the event. (SOUTH AFRICA)
REUTERS/ Mike Hutchings / Reuters
photos provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
Just a few days ago I asked "Would you shove your arm into the mouth of an impaled shark?" telling you the story of a brave vet who actually did it in order to save the life of an unlucky gray nurse shark. The question of today should be "Would you jump into the sea to save a 175kg black bear from drowning???
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission biologist Adam Warwick did it!
He saves the male black bear from drowning near Alligator Point, Fla. in the Gulf of Mexico, Saturday June 28, 2008. The bear had been wondering a residential neighborhood near Alligator Point when he was hit with a tranquilizer dart he unfortunately bolted into the ocean. Warwick jumped in to keep the bear from drowing and dragged him to shore. The bear has been relocated to Osceola National Forest near Lake City, Fla.
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You already know that Internet is the place where you can find almost everything from the most bizarre to the almost useless and even those cult cool-designed things impossible to find anywhere else. Gin and Titonic applies to all the previous definitions and it's also a little bit "black humorous"...
Eight plastic boxes to create ice cubes, four shaped like icebergs and four like Titanic.... and voilà.. your Gin and Titonic is ready... it misses just Leonardo Di Caprio drowning in the Martini but, probably, without him it tastes better...
Design: Jason Amendolara, Fred Studio
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from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
It seems a whale with two tails.. isn't it? It is Qila, a twelve yars old Beluga that one month ago gave birth to a little wonderful cub as you can see in the following pictures from Vancouver Aquarium. The baby is the first for Qila, who was born in the aquarium to Aurora in 1995. Qila was a first time mom so there were some worries about her ability to bond with her calf, but in the end they had bonded - with the help from grandma Aurora.
Read the full story at The Australian.
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
from AP Photo by Jonathan Hayward
Click here to see other wonderful pics of a dolphin giving birth
A penguin covered in oil lies dead off the coast of Piriapolis, Uruguay, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. An undetermined amount of fuel oil was released into the ocean on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 after a ship slammed against another one near the harbor of Uruguay's capital, according to Uruguayan officials. This and others oil contaminations could be one of the causes of the unusual migration of the penguins to the beach of Brazil
from AP Photo by Marcelo Hernandez
During the first half of this month I was in Brazil for the Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week. Ilhabela is a wonderful island (one of the biggest of Brazil) halfway between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, more or less 140km southwest of the latter.
A very strange thing I noticed was several penguins in the sea (I would never ever have expected to see penguins in Brazil). They were everywhere, small heads peeping out from the surface, immediately disappearing, and sadly many corpses floating too. Native people explained me that it's not unusual in that part of Brazil to see penguins in winter (our summer); They are young individuals looking for food drifted from Patagonia by stong currents.
However they also explained me that this year the number of them is absolutely many times higher than normal.
This event, unusual and very sad (they are almost condamned to die being unable to go back to Patagonia), has now been reported by the media, above all because hundreds of little corpses have reached the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
The main causes are probably the climate change that forces the penguins to find food further and further from their native land and the oil contamination that hit Patagonia in the last months.
Read more on these articles:
Hundred of baby penguins found dead in Brazil (ABC News)
Why are the penguins dying on the beaches of Brazil? (Seattle Times)
A penguin swims near Praia do Forte beach, in Cabo Frio, Brazil, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio. from AP Photo by Ricardo Moraes
A Brazilian coast guard officer holds a rescued penguin, in Cabo Frio, Brazil, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio.
A zoo worker feeds penguins, rescued off the coast of Rio de Janeiro by the Brazilian Coast Guard, at the Niteroi Zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, July 18, 2008. According to officials, over 400 baby penguins have been found dead on the state's shores over the past two months. While large numbers of penguins arrive on Rio de Janeiro's beaches every year, swept to sea by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, this year is seeing higher numbers and more dead penguins than usual.
from AP Photo by Ricardo Moraes
A Brazilian coast guard officer examines a rescued penguin, in Cabo Frio, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio. from AP Photo by Ricardo Moraes
