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Costa Concordia shipwreck according to Carlo Borlenghi

©Carlo Borlenghi

Carlo Borlenghi had visited Giglio Island in order to give us his own view of the recent dramatic shipwreck that led the huge Costa Concordia cruise ship to crash against the rocks of the little island in front of Tuscany coast.

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Braunlage Nude Sledging World Championship 2011

(Matthias Bein/DPA/Lapresse)

Here we are again! Like in 2009 and in 2010, thousands of people (more than 17000 this year!) have gathered in the little german town of Braunlage for the third edition of the world championship of the craziest winter sport ever: Nude Sledging!

(Matthias Bein/DPA/Lapresse)

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A truly exceptional dishwasher

It was just a week ago that I wrote a post about a nice advertising campaign, consisting in a wonderfully rendered computer graphics octopus in a kitchen, and today I've stumbled in a pretty similar one.
This time the ad is not playing with the fishy smell of the octopus, but rather with its sticky pads, infact the client is Vileda the famous rubber gloves brand.

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The marvelous pink hippo!

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Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas are two brothers from UK and two talented wildlife photographers. A couple of months ago, while they were taking pictures of the wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara region they stumbled across a very unusual guy: a pink hippo!

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Take 5 minutes of relax in the Kuroshio Sea

In Japan there's a huge aquarium, actually the world's second largest behind the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, called Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. The flagship of this aquarium is the main tank, called the Kuroshio Sea, that holds 7,500 cubic metres (1,981,000 USgal) of water and features an acrylic glass panel measuring 8.2 by 22.5 metres (27 by 74 ft) with a thickness of 60 centimetres (24 in), the largest such panel in the world when the aquarium was opened. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept alongside more than 60 other fish species.

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The wonderful world of artist Jacek Yerka

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Jacek Yerka is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń. He mixes his memories from his amazing childhood and creates some beautiful, inspiring paintings, which are exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States, and may be found in the museums of Poland.

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National Geographic PhotoContest 2010

©Linh Dinh
All pictures via National Geographic PhotoContest 2010

National Geographic is currently holding the 2010 edition of their famous Photo Contest.
The deadline for submissions is set on November 30th so harry up if you want your chance to get the 10.000$ 1st prize (the winners wil also be published in the NatGeo magazine). Otherwise you can just rate the submitted pictures. In the meanwhile I've prepared a brief selection of water-related picture for you as an appetizer...

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Surfing in Bullet-Time

Recently, Rip Curl, the famous surf wear maker, realized an advertising campaign called "Mirage" with a video shot in "Bullet-Time". Bulle-Time is the effect that may had first saw in the videogame "Max Payne" and then in the movie "The Matrix", but in reality it's an old (at least as a concept) photographic technique also known as "Time Slice": The bullet time effect was achieved photographically by a set of still cameras

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The good samaritan Hippo

This is one of those amazing story that makes you love the animal world and that so many times I've written about in SeaWayBLOG.
This story is set in the Mara River, a river in Africa, flowing through Kenya and Tanzania, that lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Serengeti/Masai Mara game reserves:

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Andy Irons Memorial Paddle-Out

Surfers raise their arms in honor of the late Andy Irons during a paddle out memorial service in Porta Del Sol, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.

A few hundred surfers from the northern beaches community gathered for a tribute paddle-out to celebrate the life of American surfer Andy Irons.
The three-times world champion died suddenly last week, aged just 32, just a month before he was due to become a first-time father. The three-times world champion was found dead at a hotel in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, November 2.
Irons had reportedly been suffering from Dengue Fever in the lead-up to his shock death and had pulled out of a surfing event in Puerto Rico late last month to battle the viral infection.

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