Dr. Richard Freund of the University of Hartford claims to have located the lost city of Atlantis, deep within a swamp in southern Spain.
The site was first noted in 2003 as the possible location by a German scientist looking at satellite photos.
Read more about it here:http://westhartford.patch.com/articles/has-a-university-of-hartford-professor-found-the-lost-city-of-atlantis
You can watch a documentary on it tonight on the National Geographic Channel at 9 p.m.
Scientists from Australia have used spectrophotometry to examine the light-sensitive cells in shark eyes. In contrast to the 3 types of photoreceptors we humans have for red, green and blue, sharks only have one type of photoreceptor, suggesting that they can’t distinguish colors. Sharks probably visualize their world in terms of assessing contrast against background. Thus, it may be possible to design swimming gear, boats, and fishing gear that are less likely to catch a shark’s eye.
Read about it here in the news: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2011/01/sharks-are-color-blind-shark-attacks.html
and here is the original scientific article recently published: http://www.springerlink.com/content/05427357r3uw8q35/
Here are a couple video clips showing shark attacks. The 1st is of some idiots standing in shark infested water, and the 2nd is a scuba diver attacked by a Great White shark.
In 1851, Heeman Melville wroteMoby Dick, based on an Essex crew member’s account of a horrifying 1820 ordeal in which the Nantucket, Massachusetts whaling vessel Essex was rammed and sunk in the South Pacific by a sperm whale. George Pollard Jr. and his surviving crew resorted to cannibalism in order to survive while they drifted in the open ocean for more than a month. Eventually, Pollard took command of another whaler, the “Two Brothers.” On Feb. 11, 1823, however, his 2nd ship hit a shallow reef off the coast of Hawaiit, and the crew was rescued the next day by a fellow whaler who happened along their location. Now, 188 years later, maritime heritage archaeologists, working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has found the Two Brothers shipwreck nearly 600 miles northwest of Honolulu, off French Frigate Shoals in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.
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