This doesn't happen very often--dolphins washed up onto a beach--but once it did, it's a good thing people on the beach acted quickly.
On a particularly sunny day in Cabo, Brazil, everyone on the beach was having a grand time. They were enjoying the sun and the cool water of the sea. But all of a sudden, the people there...
Ever since Jaws in 1975, the entire world has become familiar with, and mostly scared of, great white sharks. Here's a woman who, when she spotted it, swam toward it instead of away and ended up swimming along with it in the open ocean.
When I first saw this footage, I thought it was fake--maybe the shark was CGI or...
Here's a guy that was watching the seagulls, hoping they might lead him to a whale breach. When it happens right next to his boat, it's so many whales he can hardly contain himself. This is fun to watch.
If you're a whale lover, or just someone who likes the ocean, this will make you happy in every way possible....
Here's a very cool video captured by a paddleboarder who knew whales were in the area, so he had a drone overhead in case one surfaced. It did and the result was a viral encounter with one of the world's largest mammals.
Analia Giorgetti was paddleboarding off the coast of Puerto Madryn, Argentina, in 2021 while his friend Maximiliano Jonas...
They went deep in the ocean looking for an 80-year-old flying machine and found something much more recent--and more important.
Divers from a History Channel documentary crew were in the water off the coast of Florida when they came upon wreckage that wasn't quite what they were expecting. When they brushed off the sand, they discovered a distinctive tile pattern...
In this age of social media, "going viral" can be a good or bad thing, depending upon how you got there. Here's a grandmother that became an overnight internet sensation when a simple picture session turns crazy and the result was snapped and posted online by her granddaughter.
77-year-old Judith Streng was on vacation with her family to beautiful Diamond...
When you first see this clump of barnacles, it's hard to believe there's a living creature under there. But the rescuers realize it's a sea turtle that has been adrift in the ocean and needs help.
Organisms living on the outside of the turtle ("ectoparasites") are barnacles--tiny marine crustaceans with an external shell that attach themselves to a surface. They...
Octopuses are one of the smartest creatures of the sea. Not only do they have rare abilities like camouflage, but they are also very intelligent! Moreover, they are masters at problem-solving, like opening jars from the inside to escape. Their biggest weakness is they need water to survive.
If you've ever been on a beach after a tide, you may...
Here's an underwater good Samaritan story between a man and of all things, a shark. It probably won't end up on Shark Week but is incredible nonetheless.
Josh Eckles is an experienced diver who's seen his share of sharks off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. But on one dive he noticed that a lemon shark kept following him around and,...
Dolphins are one of the most beautiful creatures on the entire planet. They are known not only for their beauty, but also for their intelligence. Like humans, these beautiful blue sea dwellers exhibit empathy and altruism, and they even mourn their dead.
And it's not just emotional or intellectual traits that prove how intelligent they are – their brains are...
It's not Jaws, but this video still might make you think twice about creatures you might encounter while boating in the ocean.
April Jones and her family were boating in the Gulf of Mexico just off Florida when a giant eagle ray jumped out of the water and into their boat. She was, “Very scared, very scared,” Jones told KNOE News....
Dolphins are one of the smartest animals around and here's a story about a woman who is glad they are.
Professor Caus Cauvranvani had just purchased a new boat and gone through five days of safety training. On his maiden voyage off the coast of Marina Del Rey, California, he followed a pod of dolphins and realized, up ahead, a...
You can never tell what you might come across on any given day. A man named Steve Booker was talking a walk on the beach. It was early morning, and he must have picked the time to enjoy the serenity and peace of the morning hours. But he never expected to come across a huge sea turtle on his...
As Earth's temperature rises, ice from the poles melts at a quicker rate. When massive chunks of ice sheets break and collapse, it is called glacier calving. Although this phenomenon is somewhat rare, these people have managed to capture it on camera. And the result is absolutely breath-taking!
After 17 days of watching the glacier in Western Greenland, Adam LeWinter...
When you’re out at sea, you can’t really predict what you may come across. You might be able to plan your journey based on the weather, and predict the direction and other conditions at sea. But there are some things that you have no control over. For instance, sailors in the past have reported of seeing mermaids! Even today,...
When J.R. Gilkinson was out at sea 2 miles off the Newport Beach in California, he had the chance of experiencing something truly incredible. In his own words, “it was an experience of a 1000 lifetimes”. He and his fellow companions were hoping to record some footage of a sea lion colony, but what happened next was beyond imaginable.
He...