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Medical examiner: Billy Mays death linked to heart failure not head injury on US Airways flight

Seeded on Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:56 PM EDT ()

An autopsy in Florida shows television pitchman Billy Mays died from heart-related problems, not head trauma.

death, heart-failure, us-news, trauma, billy-mays

Kansas couple married for 67 years die hours apart

Seeded on Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:56 AM EDT ()

TROY, Kan. - Residents of a northeast Kansas town are mourning the deaths just hours apart of an elderly couple who were married 67 years. Arnita Yingling died in her sleep early Saturday at the family's home in Troy. She was 93.

death, kansas, odd-news, love, couple, married, faithfull

Cop makes arrest in bathroom after smelling crack

Seeded on Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:41 PM EST ()

ELKTON, Md. - The Cecil County Sheriff's Office said a deputy about to take a bathroom break at a gas station smelled crack cocaine and made a quick arrest. Police spokesman Lt.

arrest, odd-news, satire, crack-cocaine

prisoner amputates own penis

Seeded on Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:05 PM EST (HeraldNet.com - Work: Banking rules require vigilance)

MONROE -- A Monroe Correctional Complex prisoner with a history of mental illness was rushed to the hospital Thursday after his second attempt to cut off his penis.

prisoner, prison, odd-news, penis, ouch, genitals, amputate, monroe-wa

Thieves double money at Arlington ATM

Seeded on Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:57 PM EST (HeraldNet.com - Work: Banking rules require vigilance)

An Arlington ATM was spewing out money for anyone who knew the trick. You could double your money: $50 became $100, $100 turned into $200, $250 into $500, the machine's daily withdrawal limit.

theft, odd-news, crime, atm, arlington

HMS Victory: why the sinking feeling?

Seeded on Wed Feb 4, 2009 11:40 PM EST (Telegraph)

For centuries, Victory seemed destined to remain part of maritime legend as one of the great lost treasure ships – until last Monday, when a US underwater salvage firm announced that it had found Victory and had been secretly working on the wreck since May 2008.

history, gold, shipwreck, silver, treasure, maritime, hms-victory, odysee

Md. surgeons remove donated kidney through vagina

Seeded on Tue Feb 3, 2009 10:51 PM EST ()

"It was easier than childbirth," said Johnson, who has three children.

health, medical, kidney, sugery, vagina

MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site

Seeded on Tue Feb 3, 2009 8:07 PM EST ()

RALEIGH, North Carolina - About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

technology, sex-offenders, sex, crime, network, teen, myspace, criminal, predator

Springsteen calls Wal-Mart CD deal a mistake

Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:38 PM EST ()

NEW YORK - The Boss is owning up to a mistake. In an interview with Sunday's New York Times, Bruce Springsteen says he shouldn't have made a deal with Wal-Mart. This month, the store started exclusively selling a Springsteen greatest hits CD.

entertainment, wal-mart, bruce-springsteen, theboss

NJ kids with Nazi-inspired names removed from home

Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:27 PM EST ()

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Three New Jersey siblings whose names have Nazi connotations have been placed in state custody, police said. The children, ranging in age from 3 to under 1, were removed from their home Friday.

children, removed, nazi, odd-news, nj, adolf-hitler, racist, state-custody

Strange looking spider like boat.

Seeded on Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:35 PM EST (the Mail online)

It might look like something out of a James Bond film but this is could be the ocean cruiser of the future. The WAM-V, or Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel, blasts along on two giant inflatable tubes which, according to its designers, let it 'dance' with the waves. Powered by twin d …

boat, odd-news, scuba, strange, spider

Keyport Museum's Deep-Sea Vessel in Shipshape Form

Seeded on Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:34 PM EST (kitsapsun.com)

"It's gone places they don't build equipment to go anymore," said Pat Spicer, project leader for Q.E.D. Systems. "It's as interesting as it gets, but it's a huge, huge challenge."

technology, museum, scuba, submersible, keyport, wa-state, triesteii

Deep sea divers to repair aquaduct 700 ft below ground

Seeded on Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:48 PM EST (The New York Times)

All tunnels leak, but this one is a sieve.

ny, scuba, new-york-city, us-news, leaking, aquaduct, global-dive-and-salvage

Continents of garbage adrift in oceans

Seeded on Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:55 PM EST (Canada.com)

It is estimated to be anywhere from 700,000 square kilometres -- an area larger than Alberta -- up to 15 million square kilometres (the size of two Australias), depending on how it is measured.

pollution, science, ocean, garbage, plastic, trash

6-year-old Marysville girl fatally shot in head

Seeded on Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:50 PM EST (The Seattle Times)

The father of a 6-year-old Marysville girl who died after being shot in the head Sunday had been drinking double shots of vodka while he cleaned his guns, according to probable-cause documents.

death, accident, wa, gun, world-news, marysville

Archaeologists unearth a graveyard of ancient shipwrecks in the Black Sea

Seeded on Sat Nov 1, 2008 12:55 AM EDT ()

In the depths of the Black Sea lies a landscape of eternal darkness.

scuba, black-sea, world-news, shipwreck, university-of-texas, archaeologists

Survivor of U-boat attack is laid to rest in sunken battleship

Seeded on Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:13 PM EDT (the Mail online)

When three torpedoes from a German U-boat smashed in quick succession into HMS Royal Oak in the early hours of October 14, 1939, the result was devastating. Within 13 minutes of the attack, she had exploded, rolled over and sunk - claiming 833 lives.

germany, death, scuba, wwii, world-news, sunken, u-boat, hms-royal-oak

Navy to christen ship honoring diver Carl Brashear

Seeded on Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:26 AM EDT (PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com )

Navy master diver Carl M. Brashear, whose groundbreaking exploits were featured in the movie "Men of Honor" starring Cuba Gooding Jr., will be honored this week when the Navy christens a ship in his name.

scuba, us-navy, us-news, carl-brashear, men-of-honor

Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies

Seeded on Wed Sep 3, 2008 3:25 AM EDT (enews.earthlink.net)

LOS ANGELES - Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the catch phrase "In a world where..." and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers, has died. He was 68.

entertainment, death, voice, movies, trailor, dan-lafontain

Foot-Fins Allow Humans to Leap Dolphin-Like From the Water

Seeded on Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:54 AM EDT (Wired News)

The Lunocet is a hydrofoil for your feet, a kind of swishing fishtail that will propel you through the water like Aquaman. The device clamps on to the feet, which are kept together, and when you kick, the tail flexes.

technology, scuba, fins

Boy in bizarre 'fish in penis' accident

Seeded on Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:41 AM EDT ()

Closer examination using an X-ray failed to show anything, but an ultrasonagram check of the boy's abdomen revealed a full bladder and a small "echogenic object", indicating the presence of a foreign body in the urinary bladder.

boy, fish, odd-news, penis

Devastation of Pearl Harbour revenge attacks revealed in BBC project 2,000 feet below Pacific | Mail Online

Seeded on Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:38 PM EDT (the Mail online)

Operation Hailstorm was two years in the making - but on February 17, 1944, American forces blitzed the Chuuk Islands, in the south western region of the Pacific Ocean, sinking 70 Japanese ships, 270 aircraft and killing close to 3,000 people - though the official death toll has …

war, bbc, scuba, wwii, world-news, chuuk, operation-hailstorm

Oldest Puget Sound orca believed dead

Seeded on Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:38 AM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

The oldest orca among the pods that frequent Puget Sound and the waters of the San Juan Islands has been missing since December and is believed to be dead. That's according to Friday Harbor's Center for Whale Research, as cited in this story from the Victoria Times Colonist.

death, missing, research, whale, us-news, unknown, orca, san-juan-islands, lummi

'Ghost ship' deaths were freak accident

Seeded on Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:32 AM EDT (Telegraph)

The catamaran Kaz II was found drifting off the Great Barrier reef in April last year, with no sign of the crew Derek Batten, 56, and brothers Peter, 69, and Jim Tunstead 63.

boat, death, mystery, odd-news, coast-guard, faked, ghost-ship

Toxic Stew: Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Seeded on Thu Aug 7, 2008 11:21 AM EDT (ABC News)

Bottle caps, soap bottles, laundry baskets and shards of plastic are just a few things that float in the ocean's vastness. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the "dump" is composed mainly of plastic, which isn't biodegradable.

waste, garbage, pacific-ocean, plastic, dumping, us-news

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Man, I just caught Diverdown as 'online' on both NWDC and here on Newsvine, what an active chap!

When are we goin diving again man, it's been a little while. You and BJ and Nailer are trying to have your own OFC within the OFC, without me!
— Calvin Tang

Dude,Nailer I am truly sorry. Had I would have known that Methalethylkeytone and #2 steel wool would have done permanent damage! I wouldnt have done it..;)
— diverdown

I don't care what Calvin says, I think DiverDown is a helluva good guy! There aren't too many people I'd trust to pull thin shards of razor sharp glass out of my eyeballs, but DiverDown is one of them!
— Nailer99

Thanks Calvin, Our little dive club has been a huge asset to the NW diving community!! Scuba diving is a passion for folks like us. Many thanks for the site it has been great to meet so many people, and many more to come!!
— diverdown

DiverDown and his wife have become good friends over the past months. I met the two of them though a little dive club we have. It has grown quite a bit recently, but the Original Fresh Crew get to go diving fairly frequently together, which makes it cool.

I like to keep him in my watchlist so that I can find the tidbits of diving news that I miss elsewhere.
— Calvin Tang