Being a swimmer, and encountering a four-meter-long Basking shark with a wide open mouth, must be scary as can be. This happened to a swimmer last week, during his swim off the coast of Zandvoort, The Netherlands. The second largest fish in the world is rarely observed for the Dutch coast. In 2009 washed ashore on […]

Photographer Shane Black and two of his friends quit their jobs this past summer to spend two months traveling around the country (and teach photography workshops). It was a trip filled with endless hours cooped up in a van, exploring breathtaking landscapes, sharing stories and laughs, meeting some of the nicest people, making new friends, […]

It took nineteen hours, about seven hours longer than intended, but since early this morning, the Costa Concordia is resurrected to it’s original position. This was accomplished by using a complex system of steel cables, pulleys and counterweights. A short three-minute timelapse shows the progress of the operation:

Begin January 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsizes and sinks off the Tuscan island of Giglio. At least 30 people are killed. Next week the ship could be upright again, nearly two years after the liner. The giant vessel, which has lain partly submerged in shallow waters, will be rolled off the seabed and […]