ADVERTISING PROMOTION FOAM FUN! The 11,834m


Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is


Scientists at the


University of Minnesota have discovered that people can swim just


as fast in SYRUP as they can in water.


In 2008, Austrian


free diver Herbert Nitsch sank to a depth


of 214m in the Mediterranean Sea


HIS BREATH — that’s deeper than the height of the BT Tower in London!


The world’s first REFRIGERATED BEACH has been built in Dubai to stop tourists burning


their feet on hot sand. FENCELESS! BOARD


Hawaiian Donald “DJ” Dettloff is a surfer with a big imagination. His home is


surrounded by a fence made from 700 surfboards! DJ got the idea 20 years ago when he tied a few together with wire to stop them being blown away in a storm!


64 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS while HOLDING


BUILDINGS on top of each other in it.


In 2007, swimmers at Yamba Bay, Australia, found themselves


covered in what looked like a giant bubble bath. The thick sea foam was actually dead fish, microscopic organisms and plants, churned together into a froth by large waves. Yuck!


so deep you could stand 25 EMPIRE STATE


The island nation of Vanuatu in the


Pacific Ocean has opened the world’s first


UNDERWATER POST OFFICE!


Staff working there wear diving gear!


SUBMERSIBLE CONVERTIBLE!


totally underwater as well as on roads! Inspired by one of James


Bond’s cars, the Rinspeed sQuba is an ordinary car that can transform itself into an amphibious vehicle and dive to a depth of 10m!


In March 2008, a Swiss auto company unveiled a convertible car that operates


WATERY WONDERS


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