In what seems like a scene straight out of a horror movie, a 41-year-old Australian diver miraculously escaped the jaws of a great white shark off the southern coast of Sydney. Eric Nerhus was diving for the shellfish abalone off of Cape Howe when a 10-ft-long great white shark attacked him, crushing through his face mask, and breaking his nose, before Nerhus managed to pry free from the shark's grip.

A British man has become the first person to travel 3,000 miles across Australia on a skateboard. Graphic designer Dave Cornwaithe, from Swansea, England took five months or exactly 90 days to complete his new world record. The 27-year-old Cornthwaite has become a minor celebrity in Australia for his feat and was nicknamed "Crazy Pom. "

Bao Xishun might not have imagined that his height could bring him something else other than world fame. The 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia has been credited with saving the lives of two dolphins, which got sick after swallowing some plastic at an ocean aquarium in northeast China. According to the local news media, veterinarians attempted to surgically remove the plastic but the contraction of the dolphins' stomachs in response to the surgical instruments rendered their task impossible.

A research team uncovered skeletal bones from a creature that would have resembled the Loch Ness Monster in the Antarctic. The creature was identified as a baby plesiosaur, an ancient sea-dwelling animal that moved much like a penguin but could grow to be about 30 feet long.

fter noticing plastic tubes bobbing above the ocean's surface, U. S. Coast Guards seized a makeshift submarine transporting 3. 5 tons of cocaine across the Pacific Ocean. After spotting the suspicious water craft, officials took the submarine to a Costa Rican Coast Guard station to determine its origins. The vessel, which was found with several tanks of gas, had likely traveled hundreds of miles on its way to the U. S.