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Straits Times
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- Sport
- Straits Times
Czech man triumphs over 2.68m catfish after a 50-minute battle
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Mr Jakub Vagner with the 2.68m catfish he caught at Vranov Reservoir. A man in the Czech Republic rewrote his own national record after catching a 2.68m catfish in what he described as a 50-minute 'intense battle'. Mr Jakub Vagner, 43, caught the freshwater fish on Aug 2 at Vranov Reservoir, 200km south of the Czech capital Prague. Pictures on his social media accounts showed him with the massive catfish, which is slightly longer than the one he caught about 10 months ago. Mr Vagner, host of National Geographic Channel's Fish Warrior, spotted the fish in the early morning while he was on his boat. He then cast his custom-made rod towards the fish and waited. 'Ten minutes passed and nothing happened. Suddenly, it turned and went straight into my trap,' he told What's The Jam website. What followed was 'the hardest battle I have ever had with a catfish in the Czech Republic', he said. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Business Singapore banks face headwinds in rest of 2025, but DBS is pulling ahead: Analysts Asia Mixed reactions among Malaysia drivers on S'pore move to clamp down on illegal ride-hailing services Asia Typhoon Podul slams into southern Taiwan; hundreds of flights cancelled Business Singtel Q1 profit soars 317.4% to $2.9 billion on exceptional gains of $2.2 billion Asia Diamonds, watches and shoes: Luxury items at heart of probe into South Korea's former first lady Singapore Yishun man admits to making etomidate-laced pods for vaporisers; first Kpod case conviction Sport New Hui Fen becomes first Singaporean bowler to win PWBA Tour Player of the Year Singapore SG60: Many hands behind Singapore's success story At one point, the fish bit his hand and pulled him into the water as he tried to wrangle it . 'After almost 50 minutes, it was lying half-tired next to my boat. I was shaking, completely done,' he said. With the help of his friend, Mr Vagner took a few pictures with the enormous fish, and released it back into the waters. 'A beautiful, almost flawless fish, which has potential to grow even further,' he wrote on his Instagram. In October 2024, Mr Vagner set the national record when he caught a 2.64m catfish with a fishing rod at the same reservoir.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Space Station Cosmonaut Dons Alien Mask When Spacecraft Arrives, So It's the First Thing Visitors See When They Open Hatch
After docking with the International Space Station, the latest crew visiting the orbital outpost were met with a startling sight. Specifically, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner greeted them while wearing a cartoonish alien mask. Footage shows Vagner pushing himself into the docking portion wearing the costume. He then can be seen haunting the premises while crew members are preparing to deboard the new visitors. A NASA spokesperson confirmed to Futurism that Vagner "wore it down at the hatch so it would be the first thing the Crew-10 crew saw when the hatch opened." "It's really just like it appeared to be, a quick prank," the spokesperson added. All told, it sounds like a moment of levity — assuming he didn't scare any of the incoming astronauts too badly — to punctuate an otherwise lengthy and meticulous docking procedure. It's a particularly long-awaited mission. Fellow ISS crew members and NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been waiting for this moment since last summer, with the pair stranded on board the ISS since June due to major technical issues plaguing Boeing's Starliner spacecraft that brought them there. (The pair have now departed the station and are headed back to Earth.) The hijinx are reminiscent of the time NASA astronaut Mark Kelly attempted to send a full-body gorilla suit to his identical twin brother Scott, who was stationed on board the ISS at the time. The first suit exploded after the SpaceX mission to deliver it to the station blew up in June 2015. A second attempt in February 2016 proved more successful, and a now-iconic video shows Scott Kelly dressing up in the suit and hiding on board the station before popping out to terrify his compatriots. "Of course people liked it," Kelly told People magazine in 2022. "How can you not like space gorilla?" More on the mission: NASA Sending Military Personnel to Space Station
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
'Alien' encounter: ISS crew member plays joke as SpaceX team arrives
Even astronauts have a sense of humor, as shown during NASA's Crew-10 docking on the International Space Station (ISS), when they were met by an "alien" early Sunday morning. Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner wore an alien mask while welcoming four newcomers after their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked to the station at 12:04 a.m., about 29 hours after launching at 7:03 p.m. on Friday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. While ISS crew members were preparing the capsule for deboarding, Vagner could be seen floating around while wearing a mask, a hoodie, pants and socks during the "lighthearted moment," a NASA spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov entered the International Space Station shortly after opening the hatches between the space station and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 1:35 a.m. EDT," NASA said in a statement. Following the hatch opening by Suni Williams, the ship's bell was rung as the new arrivals floated in, shook hands and hugged the Expedition 72 crew after Vagner's practical joke. "It was a wonderful day. Great to see our friends arrive," Williams told Mission Control. Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to show the new arrivals the ins and outs of the space station before they finally return home after nine months. Their mission was only scheduled to last one week after the launch of Boeing's first astronaut flight, but they were stuck in space after issues forced NASA to bring the Boeing Starliner back empty. Crew-9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to depart the station on Wednesday as early as 4 a.m. before splashing down off Florida's coast.
