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Drone Captures Hikers’ Near Death In Hawaii Flash Flood
Flash floods are one of the most powerful and therefore most dangerous things you can encounter outdoors. In this terrifying video, a group of hikers in Maui’s jungle is swept away.
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California Lifeguards Get Drone, Instantly Spot 10-12 Great Whites
Orange County’s Seal Beach is a popular spot for swimmers and surfers, so its lifeguards figured they’d use a camera drone to keep a better eye on them. But what they saw instead was “10 to 12 great white sharks just feet from shore.”
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Monster Machines: Australian Electric Fence Could Safely Segregate Swimmers And Sharks
Shark netting strung up in coastal waters to protect swimmers from the ocean’s apex predators has not worked nearly as well as we had hoped. But where these knotted nylon lines have failed, one Australian company hopes an electric field will succeed.
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Speedo’s Crazy Nemesis Fins Borrow Their Design From Humpback Whales
When you’re designing a product that helps someone race through the water, it only makes sense to draw your inspiration from the ocean’s resident experts. So you might be surprised to hear that Speedo closely based the design for its new Nemesis fins on humpback whales instead of sharks or dolphins. Either way, it’s a…