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Labor Day Dive at Manchester, Mendocino

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Cage Diving With Crocodiles?                       

Cage Diving with Great White sharks may not be the extreme underwater event anymore. Move over great whites, cage-diving with crocodiles has arrived! This latest extreme dive related sport just been launched in Oudtshoorn, South Africa with the world's first crocodile cage dive.

What makes Croc Cage Diving so much more daring is the fact that crocodiles close their mouths around prey with pressure of just over 1 ton per square inch. A Great White shark can only apply a pressure of about 500kg. Add to that the fact that crocodiles do consider humans as prey and Croc Cage Diving is clearly extreme...

                                                                                                     

Tourists 12 years and older, are lowered in a cage into a crystal clear heated crocodile pool inhabited by 4 meter long Nile crocodiles. It is a free-dive without use of any scuba gear. Visitors participating in this once in a lifetime experience receive a photo of their encounter.

 

   While not really about diving ...

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Seven-year-old does Alcatraz swim

Tue, 23 May 2006

A seven-year-old boy swam from Alcatraz island, famed for its notorious former prison, to San Francisco on Monday, becoming the youngest person to complete the 1.4 mile (2.25 kilometer) crossing.

"I think it's pretty cool," Braxton Bilbrey said after climbing from San Francisco Bay and being scooped up in the arms of his father waiting at Aquatic Park near Fisherman's Wharf.

                                                                                                      

The schoolboy from the US state of Arizona has completed several triathlons and said he was inspired to do the Alcatraz swim after hearing that a nine-year-old did it a year earlier.

While the current was against Bilbrey on Monday, the water was calm and the morning was windless and sunny.

When asked his next goal, a shivering Bilbrey replied "I don't know, swim the English Channel."

 

           Spaniard crosses Asia on a jet-ski
             Mie Kohiyama
            Thu, 29 Jun 2006

 

Alvaro de Marichalar, a descendant of the celebrated Jesuit, on Wednesday sped into Tokyo Bay after becoming the first person to jet-ski 5,320 kilometers (3,300 miles) from China to Japan.

                       

Sporting a suntan and a nascent beard after some 11 weeks on the sea, the 45-year-old waved Spanish and Japanese flags as he cruised into the Yumeno-Shima port.

He was welcomed by dozens of supporters who presented him with roses and cracked open a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne.

"I want to set a record for my country. And I want to help instill in young people values so they reject drugs and alcohol," he added.

He said he also used his adventure on the jet-ski — a pursuit criticized by environmentalists for its high level of pollution — to shoot footage for a film denouncing toxic waste, which he denounced as "the murderer of fish."

The Spaniard in 2002 became the first person to cross the Atlantic on a jet-ski and is hoping to accomplish the same feat in the future in the Pacific.

In his latest adventure from China to Japan, he spent 12 hours a day standing up in his jet-ski led by "the flying fish and the dolphins."

"The jet-ski doesn't offer any protection or refuge. You're always cold, but you live through the sea and navigation," said the Spaniard, who lost weight during the journey.

He said he fell from his jet-ski some 10 times a day and had particular difficulty reaching Okinawa as he was lashed by winds and rain in the rainy season.

"I have done this because I love the sea. I want to share my experiences of solitude and of the sea," he said.

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