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NDTV
09-08-2025
- NDTV
Waterslide Horror On World's Largest Cruise Ship, Screams Heard In Video
A terrifying incident unfolded on the Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas cruise ship when a waterslide suddenly cracked open mid-ride, leaving one injured. The accident occurred on Thursday, during a seven-day trip around the eastern Caribbean, leaving a sizable hole in the tubular slide. People quickly sprang into action, screaming "stop the slide" as water gushed out of the broken section. A video of the incident showed commotion onboard after an acrylic glass panel broke while a man was using the slide. ???? 'STOP THE SLIDE!' - 'OH MY GOD SOMEBODY JUST FELL OUT OF THE SLIDE!' Chaos on the world's largest cruise ship after a waterslide panel shatters mid-ride. One passenger reportedly sliced open, triggering an emergency shutdown. What's going on with cruise ships this year? — HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) August 8, 2025 'Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide,' a Royal Caribbean Group spokesperson said in a statement. He added, "The guest is being treated for his injuries. The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation." While the injured man's identity has not been revealed, his condition is stable, reported ABC News. The Icon of the Seas, hailed as the largest and one of the most sophisticated cruise ships in the world, has a waterpark with six slides. It was carrying thousands of vacationers at the time of the malfunction. The slide will now remain shut until safety inspections and repairs are finished. The exact cause of the acrylic glass failure is yet to be known. The company has pledged to evaluate all safety procedures to prevent similar accidents in the future. The Icon of the Seas set sail for the first time in January 2024. The ship can accommodate nearly 10,000 people at full capacity.
Metro
30-07-2025
- Science
- Metro
Whales eerily become beached hours before quake - do they predict them?
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Somehow, the animals are always the first to know – at least, that's what most disaster movies want us to know. And, depending on who you ask, this was the case today after a colossal 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's remote Far East coast. The tremor, one of the largest ever recorded, radiated tsunami waves that travelled hundreds of miles per hour towards Japan, Alaska, California, Hawaii and Washington. Millions living on both sides of the Pacific Ocean were evacuated as officials issued warnings and long, curling waves crashed into coastlines. Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, wrecked by a tsunami in 2011, fled, fearing the up to five-feet-tall waves expected. But hours before the quake, on Tuesday night, four whales were beached along the shores of Tateyama, a city in Japan's Chiba prefecture. And, to some, they were a precursor for the quake about to happen. The pod of male sperm whales huddled together in the shallow waves off Heisaura Beach, with one measuring eight metres, Japan's NHK reported. Footage taken by a surfer today showed the underwater giants flopping their fins near the edge of the water. Beliefs that the beached whales were warnings for the incoming earthquake went viral on social media, further emboldened by viral clips of beached beluga whales found on the shores of Kamchatka, a peninsula at the quake's epicentre. So, Metro spoke with experts, reviewed studies and crunched the numbers -can whale standings predict earthquakes? 🚨THE ANIMALS WARNED US – AND WE DIDN'T LISTENJust yesterday, five beluga whales washed ashore in Kamchatka, Russia, the exact epicenter of today's record-shattering magnitude 8.8 always knows was the warning. — HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) July 30, 2025 Why beaching, also called cetacean stranding, happens has long been a mystery. Lone animals may beach themselves if they are sick, but exactly why mass strandings occur is unclear. Some suggest that shoddy echolocation, hunting prey in shallow water or sonar could push them to land. But for decades, some have wondered whether the whispers of an incoming seismic event could play a role. In the weeks before the world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years happened off the Indonesian ocean in 2004, some 170 whales were stranded along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. In 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake shook a tsunami that sent walls of water washing over northern Japan, killing nearly 20,000 people. Only days before, 50 melon-headed whales were beached in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, about 60 miles from the quake's epicentre As did about 50 dolphins, who were found lifeless along the beaches. So, when video footage of the beached whales in Chiba and Kamchatka spread, some users were quick to say that: 'The animals warned us.' Except, they probably weren't, experts told Metro. 'Yes, it's possible that some element of marine earthquakes can cause impacts on marine mammals like these sperm whales,' Rob Deaville, a project manager at the Zoological Society of London's UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, told Metro. 'But as some reports suggest the whales potentially stranded before the tsunami hit Japan, I'd probably advise caution on linking the two events. 'Sperm whales are known to mass strand, we've had several in England over the last few years- and it's possible that the events may be coincidental and unrelated, further investigation by, eg, post-mortem, would be useful to help explore this further. ' It might be tricky to do a post-mortem on the beluga whales said to have washed ashore in Kamchatka, given that this actually happened in 2023. As a Russian news report said at the time, the four adults and a calf were found stuck on a beach near the mouth of the Tigil River. They were later rescued by local fishermen, who poured buckets of seawater on them until the tide came back in. In Chiba, at least 41 whales became beached on the prefecture's shallow shores between 2020 and 2024, according to a marine stranding database, many in areas where no earthquakes occurred. NHK also found next to no evidence that whale and dolphin standings have ever been signs of an imminent earthquake between 2011 and early 2024. Stewart Fishwick, professor of geophysics and Head of School at the University of Leicester, was also unconvinced by the connection. He told Metro that beached whales happening before earthquakes are 'nothing more than a coincidence', as studies have previously found. 'Given the number of whale strandings that occur all the time, there is always going to be one found somewhere in the weeks leading up to a big earthquake,' he added. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: How 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunamis are causing major flight disruption worldwide MORE: Map shows where tsunami warnings are in place after 8.8-magnitude earthquake MORE: Did 'new Baba Vanga' predict Japan tsunami and record-shaking earthquake?
Metro
30-07-2025
- Science
- Metro
Whales eerily become beached hours before earthquake - do they predict them?
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Somehow, the animals are always the first to know – at least, that's what most disaster movies want us to know. And, depending on who you ask, this was the case today after a colossal 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's remote Far East coast. The tremor, one of the largest ever recorded, radiated tsunami waves that travelled hundreds of miles per hour towards Japan, Alaska, California, Hawaii and Washington. Millions living on both sides of the Pacific Ocean were evacuated as officials issued warnings and long, curling waves crashed into coastlines. Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, wrecked by a tsunami in 2011, fled, fearing the up to five-feet-tall waves expected. But hours before the quake, on Tuesday night, four whales were beached along the shores of Tateyama, a city in Japan's Chiba prefecture. And, to some, they were a precursor for the quake about to happen. The pod of male sperm whales huddled together in the shallow waves off Heisaura Beach, with one measuring eight metres, Japan's NHK reported. Footage taken by a surfer today showed the underwater giants flopping their fins near the edge of the water. Beliefs that the beached whales were warnings for the incoming earthquake went viral on social media, further emboldened by viral clips of beached beluga whales found on the shores of Kamchatka, a peninsula at the quake's epicentre. So, Metro spoke with experts, reviewed studies and crunched the numbers -can whale standings predict earthquakes? 🚨THE ANIMALS WARNED US – AND WE DIDN'T LISTENJust yesterday, five beluga whales washed ashore in Kamchatka, Russia, the exact epicenter of today's record-shattering magnitude 8.8 always knows was the warning. — HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) July 30, 2025 Why beaching, also called cetacean stranding, happens has long been a mystery. Lone animals may beach themselves if they are sick, but exactly why mass strandings occur is unclear. Some suggest that shoddy echolocation, hunting prey in shallow water or sonar could push them to land. But for decades, some have wondered whether the whispers of an incoming seismic event could play a role. In the weeks before the world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years happened off the Indonesian ocean in 2004, some 170 whales were stranded along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. In 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake shook a tsunami that sent walls of water washing over northern Japan, killing nearly 20,000 people. Only days before, 50 melon-headed whales and 50 dolphin were beached in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, about 60 miles from the quake's epicentre So, when video footage of the beached whales in Chiba and Kamchatka spread, some users were quick to say that: 'The animals warned us.' Except, they probably weren't, experts told Metro. 'Yes, it's possible that some element of marine earthquakes can cause impacts on marine mammals like these sperm whales,' Rob Deaville, a project manager at the Zoological Society of London's UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, told Metro. 'But as some reports suggest the whales potentially stranded before the tsunami hit Japan, I'd probably advise caution on linking the two events. 'Sperm whales are known to mass strand, we've had several in England over the last few years- and it's possible that the events may be coincidental and unrelated, further investigation by, eg, post-mortem, would be useful to help explore this further. ' It might be tricky to do a post-mortem on the beluga whales said to have washed ashore in Kamchatka, given that this actually happened in 2023. As a Russian news report said at the time, the four adults and a calf were found stuck on a beach near the mouth of the Tigil River. They were later rescued by local fishermen, who poured buckets of seawater on them until the tide came back in. In Chiba, at least 41 whales became beached on the prefecture's shallow shores between 2020 and 2024, according to a marine stranding database, many in areas where no earthquakes occurred. NHK also found next to no evidence that whale and dolphin standings have ever been signs of an imminent earthquake between 2011 and early 2024. Stewart Fishwick, professor of geophysics and Head of School at the University of Leicester, was also unconvinced by the connection. He told Metro that beached whales happening before earthquakes are 'nothing more than a coincidence', as studies have previously found. 'Given the number of whale strandings that occur all the time, there is always going to be one found somewhere in the weeks leading up to a big earthquake,' he added. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: How 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunamis are causing major flight disruption worldwide MORE: Map shows where tsunami warnings are in place after 8.8-magnitude earthquake MORE: Did 'new Baba Vanga' predict Japan tsunami and record-shaking earthquake?
Hindustan Times
21-06-2025
- Climate
- Hindustan Times
Will US see ‘ring of fire' amid tornado, derecho, thunderstorms in Minnesota and Dakotas? Here's what we know
US forecasters have warned that the storm system is moving eastward over areas of the Midwest and Northeast, and that at least three people have died in North Dakota during a bout of extreme weather that included several tornado sightings. US forecasters report a deadly storm system moving east, with three fatalities in North Dakota. Strong winds and tornadoes have caused significant damage.(X@HustleBitch_) According to the Cass County Sheriff's Office, the three were killed on June 20 in rural Enderlin, North Dakota, which is located in the state's southeast. Around 11:40 pm, deputies arrivedto a residence after they receivedreports of tornado damage. They fie department told them that thestorm chasers haveinformed them that they have foundtwo bodies. According to the sheriff's office, a third victimwas found deadat another site. On June 20, strong storms with high winds, hail, and many suspected tornadoes blasted over portions of Minnesota and the Dakotas. A wind gust of 101 mph was reported at the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network station northwest of Linton, as per the Bismarck, North Dakota, National Weather Service. Initial reports submitted to the Storm Prediction Center indicated that hail measuring more than 3.5 inches in diameter and tornadoes damaged houses. Strong winds reportedly damaged power lines and trees. On the morning of June 21, USA TODAY's power outage tracker reported that over 75,000 individuals in North Dakota and Minnesota were without power. Also Read: Did American B-2 stealth bombers just take off from US base towards western Pacific amid Israel-Iran fallout? Severe weatherexpected to travel east over the weekend According to the National Weather Service, the same storm system that began in North Dakota is predicted to proceed eastward across the Great Lakes area throughout the day on June 21 and enter New York and New England at night. The storms may bring hail, powerful wind gusts, and isolated flash floods. Will extreme US weather cause ring of fire? The storms occur as the meteorological service warns of a 'significant and extremely dangerous heat wave' that will continue into next week throughout parts of the country. Clusters of thunderstorms that are predicted to develop on the hot air dome's perimeter will provide a 'ring of fire' effect, AccuWeather reported, adding thatthunderstorms typically occur on a heat dome's margins since high pressure is lowest there. A derecho, a destructive wind event that stretches hundreds of miles, might develop from the storm system, as perAccuWeather. Derecho is also known as'inland hurricane.' Dangerous heat across US Meanwhile, over150 million Americans were in the midst of hazardous heat advisories or warnings in much of the country's eastern half. The meteorological agency predicts that on June 21, temperatures in portions of more than two dozen states will reach or surpass 90 degrees. In certain areas of Kansas, Nebraska, and southern Minnesota, triple digits are anticipated. Significant East Coast cities, such as New York and Washington, D.C., are predicted to experience temperatures above 90 degrees for five to seven days in a row as the heat wave continues eastward for many days.
