Maui Sunset

Sunset in Maui. LINK: Youtube

Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage

Pretty scary actually, pity the poor lady that face plants against the column in the center of the video. Sorry there is no audio, it was removed. LINK: Youtube

First Video from Expedition Titanic

Some absolutely amazing video of the bow taken by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory team with cameras mounted on Phoenix's expertly piloted ROV. LINK: Youtube

Arctic Surfing

Filmmaker Yassine Ouhilal took four top professional surfers to the northern Norwegian and Russian coast to film them surfing in the extreme winter conditions of the Arctic Ocean:

While planning the trip, charts showed that waves would be better in the winter, but it was deemed suicide to try surfing during the coldest and darkest part of the year. Even the spring temperatures hovered between 20 and 45 degrees Fahrenheit; not exactly the most ideal surfing weather. As they traveled around they often found beautiful, calm beaches that taunted them with signs of large waves that came just days before.

At the link, you can view more photos of their expedition.

Link, Via: The Presurfer | Photo: Yassine Ouhilal, Via: Neatorama

Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space

Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean

Around 500 people live on Atafu Atoll, mostly in a village that can be seen on the corner in the left of the image above. Atafu is just five miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.

Atafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical atolls, Atafu is very low lying and vulnerable to sea-level rise. This photograph was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station in January.

Image: NASA. More photos of other islands at this LINK.

Ocean vs. open pit mine - ocean wins

In Malaysia a tin mine was excavated right adjacent to the ocean.

This is low-resolution video shot by an amateur, but the event is spectacular - first a landslide of the oceanside wall of the mine, followed by an inrush of the ocean.

A slightly better version of the video is here, some info and links here, and a Google map satellite photo of the result here. LINK, Via: Youtube

An interesting stairway

"San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Vizcaya" (Bermeo, Spain.) Other pix here. LINK