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Emiel
@Emiel_1985
40 YO! Loves a lot (but not all) between ambient/lounge & rhythmic noise. Can occasionally be found on progressive trance/house & (melodic) techno dancefloors.
Amsterdam Beigetreten Ocak 2011
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@racerx150 @Rainmaker1973 Came here to say that.
And if we’d still be alone, that’d be even more scary!
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@ScienceExpand You can cancel that textually described surgery on this animated patient.
The surgery is technically impossible.
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Netherlands, I’m counting down till pure madness on saturday 😉
Nothing better than an intimate show with 360 stage setup! Can’t wait to see you all at @grenswerkvenlo 🚀 #venlo
grenswerk.nl/agenda/airwalk…
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Picture a thick rope pulled tight across your chest for years. This whale shark has been living it. His skin is six inches thick, the thickest armor of any animal on Earth. The rope in this video sawed through years of it.
Most whale sharks in this shape never get found. This one got lucky.
Scientists in Indonesia spent 13 years studying 268 whale sharks in a stretch of ocean called the Bird's Head Seascape. It's supposed to be one of the safest places on Earth for them because fishing is restricted. The study came out in August 2025, in Frontiers Marine Science. Out of the 268 sharks, 206 had visible scars. Just over three quarters. And 80% of those scars came from humans: boats, ropes, nets, fishing platforms.
And this is inside the protected area. Outside, things get worse.
Every year, about 2% of the world's fishing gear is lost or dumped into the ocean. That adds up to around 25 million crab traps and fish pots sitting on the seafloor. Enough fishing line to wrap around the equator 18 times. Commercial nets covering an area the size of Panama. And somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million tons of rope and netting.
The rope doesn't rot. Nylon hangs around in seawater for centuries, long enough to outlive the people who tied the knots. It just drifts, catching whatever swims into it. The WWF figures almost half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is old fishing gear.
Whale shark numbers are down more than 50% in the last 75 years. In the Indo-Pacific, it's 63%. These animals don't start having babies until they're about 30. They can live to 130. So a rope around a young whale shark is a 20-year wound. If it survives.
The rescue you just watched took a diver maybe five minutes. That rope had been on the shark for years. Around 300,000 whales and dolphins die every year from getting tangled in fishing gear. Almost none of them get a camera crew.
Earth@earthcurated
“Years of discomfort disappeared in just 30 seconds.” 🕒🐳
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