heh heh... sweet

not as dangerous as it looks though...
i was doing similar from the age of seven

check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrCrAwn4Aks

it's a popular summer surfspot on the south shore of the hawaiian island of oahu called china walls - my house is visible for a few seconds in this vid as it pans quickly to the left - i swam in waves like that almost every day of my life

on a side note, that lava shelf is where they filmed some of the coastal scenes in the lost series

I like that picture you have up above. It reminds me once when I was a kid it rained that hard and we had an un-even gravel drive way so it had some pretty big puddles, while it rained like that my brother, cousin and I went into the puddles and swam like they were lakes. Got some funny pictures of it, of which I am not sure exist anymore.

>> ^Fletch:

He was never the same after that. Just swam in circles and watched the world go by.


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He was never the same after that. Just swam in circles and watched the world go by.

What a good little consumer. I'm down with the whole different strokes for different folks stuff, but my parents took me camping as a child, we hiked mountains, rode bikes through forests, and swam in lakes together.

Though I did want to go to Disney land, looking back I'm fucking glad my parents never succumbed to that bullshit.

I have real memories of a real place that will stick with me my whole life, and when I want to remember my parents after their passing, I will venture to the mountains or the woods, and I value my time with them in those places more and more each year I age. Sorry for being a Grinch but this shallow consumer crap rubs me the wrong way.

I found the transgendered parent and the marionette puppet very convincing but then they had to go and ruin it with the whale on top of that building. No whale could have swam that far inland!

>> ^nanrod:

Fascinating new viewpoint of the tsunami. Needs subtitles, I'm really curious as to what point in the video he bails out of his car.


You can see in the vid where he bails out at approximately 9:02~9:03 in the vid (he says "Yoshi!" which means "Okay!) in Japanese. It's literally seconds before the car sinks. He swam to a nearby building and was able to pull himself up out of the water.

During the interview he explains that at first he sat tight because the car was getting smashed by all the debris and he was afraid of getting crushed if he bailed out of the car. He did open the window though just in case he had to get out in a hurry. After a while, it seemed like he was just going to float gently there, so he decided to sit and wait it out. But then he got caught in the fast-moving current and water started filling up the heavily damaged car from all sides, so he made the (clearly correct) decision to jump out.

The puppies were NOT rescued. How could they be? Either they immediately (IMMEDIATELY) swam to shore, or they drowned/died of exposure. It's pretty simple. The old lady and media lied to cover up terrible press for village of animals.

Seven-time All-American swimmer Hill “Dolphin Man” Taylor recently surpassed the 50-meter backstroke world record by a full second. But Hill’s final time of 23.1 won’t count because he swam the entire length of the pool underwater.

What he has done is certainly impressive, but he definitely didn't do backstroke. The rules are clear, it's not like this would have been a surprise to him.

>> ^mgittle:

>> ^heathen:
I'd guess pesticides, sprayed from a crop duster. The plane may have flown over where the birds were roosting. Then later the pesticides could have washed into the river, killing the fish mentioned in Deathcow's linked article.

Except as was pointed out, pollutants would have affected multiple fish species instead of only one. Also, I'd guess that it would be quite unlikely for pesticides sprayed in the air to travel 125 miles without dispersing to really low concentrations unless the initial concentration/quantity was ridiculously high. Plus, even if some chemical in the air reached the ground in a concentrated amount, it's also highly unlikely that, specific crazy topography aside, the local watershed could move the chemical 125 miles in the time span in question.
Until more info, I'd stick with the "unrelated" hypothesis.


Yeah, I was suggesting the fish were poisoned in the river near the spraying site and then swam to Ozark before dying, not that the pesticides were carried on the wind for 125 miles.

I also agree the watershed couldn't move the pollutants that far, especially since Google tells me the Arkasas river flows in the wrong direction.

Pollutants are certainly likely to affect multiple fish species, however they don't have to affect them all the same way, or with the same severity. For example, maybe fish larger than the drum didn't receive a large enough dose to kill them, or smaller fish were able to survive as they required less oxygen in the water.

As you say, it may just be an unrelated co-incidence. However, with that many animals dying in such a short time frame, I'd personally hope it was a one-off mistake than something that could occur twice in such a small area, within a day of each other.

>> ^ghark:

I'm glad he got his camera back, it would have been hard explaining to the wife that he just lost the new $3,000 underwater camera because an octopus swam away with it.

I'm glad he got his camera back because I'd have a really hard time accepting how this video made it to the internet, had he not retrieved his camera.

I'm glad he got his camera back, it would have been hard explaining to the wife that he just lost the new $3,000 underwater camera because an octopus swam away with it.

This is an interesting story. According to National Wildlife Federation, "The incident was beyond odd. No one—anywhere—had ever recorded seeing a killer whale attack a great white. And then something even stranger happened: The sharks of the Farallones vanished."

Stranger still, after a Killer Whale killed another Great White at the same location in 2000, one tagged Great White, "Tipfin" behaved in an unusual manner: "On the hour of the attack, Tipfin abruptly dropped to 500 meters and headed west... He swam all the way to Hawaii."

http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueid=70&articleid=991

What happened is Bill'O is a talking head who's seen the tide turning and has swam to shore for safety.

"Oh great I swam out here for nothing - oh I could have walked."