Photographer catches amazing waves breaks underwater

Alex Tipple, a 29 year old surfer from Sydney, Australia began photographing underwater wave breaks after becoming frustrated with "normal" surf photography.

"I'm pretty comfortable underwater from years of surfing, and can ride out the waves breaking overhead. The housing is about the size of a shoebox, and weighs about 5 kilograms, heavy enough to hurt when it hits me in the head."

Tipple has been surfing since he was a kid and begun filming underwater in 2000.

Post Oil Disaster

It has been over two months since the BP oil spill disaster. While BP is struggling to stop the oil gushing from a broken pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, the spill is creeping into more coastal areas of Florida and Louisana. Cleanup in these areas will take years or decades, if the beaches are not lost forever.

Please visit boston.com for more information or read the full length article: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/oil_in_the_gulf_two_months_lat.html

Immortal Soul

The species of jellyfish might the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. There might be no natural limit to it's lifespan. They are able to bypass death since it is capabale of cycling from mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).

The key lies in a process where one type of cell is transnformed into another type of cell. Other animals that can undergo this process but in a limited form are salamanders which can regrow limbs. The numbers of individuals are spiking and can now be found all over the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. There is not much more to say than that-consider myself officially in awe.

Planning a trip for your summer travels, head to Kangaroo Island in Australia.

Prints marked the sand – left not by stranded sailors but by the local wildlife, which, with just one human being per square mile, still roams free. Kangaroo Island (KI), off the coast of South Australia, is wild, elemental and unफॉर thegiving. But I can think of few places in which l would rather be shipwrecked. KI is billed as Australia's answer to the Galapagos Islands: koalas, seals, sea lions, wallabies and, of course, kangaroos, are abundant, while echidna, platypus, southern right whales and penguins can be spotted by those who are more patient. Evening "Kangas and Kanapes" drinks on the 600-acre estate of nearby Edward's Cottage, which teems with kangaroos, give a taste of what the place can offer, but to have any hope of scratching beneath the surface of an island थे size of Sussex, you need an experienced guide.

Flights to Kangaroo Island are operated by Rex Airlines (0061 2 6393 5550; www.rex.com.au) which offers connections from seven southern Australian airports, including Adealide.