A cat accidentally packed in a container with household goods survived a three week trip crossing the Pacific Ocean without food and water. Pamela Escamilla, who owned the cat, had given up hope when her cat could not be found for three weeks. However, Escamilla was surprised when she learned that Spice survived the trip in a shipping container with no food or water.

A 50-year-old Canadian man has set out on the first of its kind balloon journey Tuesday, where he will fly an undersized hot-air balloon across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada to England. David Hempleman-Adams, who lives in Box, Wiltshire, set off on the adventurous journey in a helium balloon at 1 am from St John's in Newfoundland, Canada.

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It sounds like a tale from a storybook but the sunken treasure found in the Atlantic Ocean Friday is real and worth $500 million. Odyssey Marine Exploration deep-sea explorers found a shipwreck that yielded 17-tons of colonial-era gold and silver coins in an undisclosed area in the ocean. They brought the booty to the surface in plastic containers to be analyzed.

A lost penguin ended up swimming onto the coast of Peru. The Magellanic penguin apparently got lost during his search for food. Officials at Peru's National Resource Institute say the penguin swam about 3,100 miles north of his home in southern Chile. He apparently suffered an injury to his right wing.