The hotel guests at the Edgewater Hotel and Waterpark in Minnesota had to run in their swimming trunks on Thursday after a fake volcano at the center of a swimming pool "erupted" giving out smoke. The 20-foot-tall plastic volcano started emitting black smoke and flames at about 6:40 p. m. because of a malfunctioning of the internal speaker. The flames were put out by firefighters and an automatic sprinkler head mounted above the volcano. However, the entire volcano melted during the "eruption. "

Randy Thornton's swimming adventure earlier this month was skewed after one of his fellow swimmers, a humpback whale, flipped its tail. The 50-year-old diver had to be hospitalized for a broken femur at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Center in Sandy. The incident happened on March 1 during an excursion trip in the Dominican Republic. Thornton and 17 other divers were on the last dive of the last day of their weeklong trip to the reefs called the Silver Banks, an area where divers are allowed to swim with humpback whales.

Despite the fact that beavers are on the city's official seal, one hasn't been seen in the city for 200 years. That all changed this week after biologists disclosed that they had videotaped a beaver swimming in the Bronx River. The beaver's lodge made of twigs and mud, on the riverbank had been spotted earlier.

A beaver was spotted in New York City Wednesday for the first time on record since the early 1800s. Earlier this week the male beaver's twig and mud home, or "beaver lodge," was seen on the bank of the Bronx River, but no one had set eyes on the beaver himself until biologists from the Bronx Zoo videotaped it swimming in the river on Wednesday. Beavers were common in the early days of New York City, but they disappeared over time, mostly due to trappers who were interested in their fur.

An Australian man, drunk on vodka, caught a shark with his bare hands while fishing off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, about 870 miles west of Sydney. Phillip Kerkhof caught a 1. 3-meter (4-ft. ) bronze whaler shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach on Friday while it was swimming in shallow waters.