Underwater Mailboxes Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
Remember the last time you were diving underwater and you suddenly remembered an important letter you had to post that very instant? Yup, it...
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Cancun Underwater Sculpture Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2010
If you want to checkout the new museum at Cancun, Mexico, you will have to don snorkel gear and take dive under the sea, for it’s the world’...
Winners of Amateur Underwater Photography Contest
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2013
Each spring, the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science organizes an underwater photography contest open...
Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...
The Mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2012
Weeki Wachee Springs is one of Florida’s oldest and most unique roadside attractions. It’s located about an hour north of Tampa at the cross...
The Sunken City of Baiae
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...
This Wooden Barrel Was The World’s First Military Submarine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2016
The possibilities of a submersible boat that could cruise below the water’s surface undetected and ambush enemy ships has fascinated militar...
Neptune Memorial Reef: An Underwater Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2013
Originally known as the Atlantis Memorial Reef, the Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater mausoleum for cremated remains. Located 3.25 mile...
Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...
The World’s Largest Waterfalls Are Underwater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2018
Victoria Falls in southern Africa is often regarded as the world’s largest waterfalls. “Regarded”, because there is no standard method to me...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 12
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Cancun Underwater Sculpture ...
Orda Cave: World's Longest Underwater Gypsum Cave in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2011
A team of daring cave divers working on Orda Cave Awareness Project have produced an incredible series of photos of the longest underwater g...
William Walker: The Man Who Saved Winchester Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2021
More than a century ago, Winchester Cathedral, which is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe and the longest of all Gothic cathedrals, wa...
The Submarine That Gave Its Crew A Mysterious Sickness
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2024
In 1863, German-American inventor and engineer Julius Hermann Kroehl founded the Pacific Pearl Company with the goal of profiting from pearl...
Hells Bells
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2021
Deep down El Zapote cenote, a 50-meter-deep water-filled sinkhole in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites take a diff...
Brilliant Underwater Shots from the European Championships
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2010
Photographer Francois Xavier Marit used an underwater camera to capture the European Swimming Championships in a unique way this summer in B...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 26
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. World’s Highest Tennis Court at Burj Al Arab The world’s highest tennis court stands atop the fourth ...
The Shipwrecks of Cayman Islands
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2013
The Cayman Islands are made up of three islands - Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. They lie in western Caribbean Sea about 700 k...
Underwater Photographs of Swimming Babies
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2010
Phil Shaw and his partner Ana Torres set up London Baby Swim in 2008, offering classes for parents and babies as young as six weeks old to t...
Operation Sandblast: The First Submarine Circumnavigation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 14, 2023
In the early 16th century, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan embarked on a historic expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific, ...
