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POPSStunning underwater shots captured by world's top female cave diver and her team
Crawling through underwater caves from Antarctica to Mexico and Florida to Bermuda, it is a good thing that Jill Heinerth is not claustrophobic It also helps that Ms Heinerth, 44, is acknowledged as the world's top female cave diver Holding the world record for distance travelled in underwater caves as well as being the first person to cave dive in an Antarctic iceberg, Ms Heinerth has been at the top of her game for 20 years An expert at crossing pitch-black freezing tunnels, full time cave photographer Ms Heinerth carries up to 300 pounds of equipment with her on each expedition Using technology more advanced than average scuba diving gear, the Florida based adventure cave diver makes use of electric heated wetsuits and unique carbon dioxide recycling aqua-lungs 'The images of me with my team from Antarctica still bring back the excitement of that unique expedition,' says Ms Heinerth, who lives in the much warmer climate of High Springs in Florida.
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POPSJapanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight
The film shows angry confrontations between residents and the lead activist, Ric O'Barry, who in the 1960s trained dolphins for the US hit television show "Flipper" but now argues the animals should be free to roam the oceans. The film won numerous international prizes, including the Sundance Festival's audience award, and last month led the Australian city of Broome to announce it would cancel it sister-city relationship with Taiji. "Dolphins are a large-brain creature," O'Barry, 69, told AFP during a recent return visit to Japan. "They are highly intelligent, they are self-aware, like gorillas and humans. I nursed them, I watched them give birth. "And for me, to kill them, is extremely, extremely..." He paused, then simply added: "I don't see the purpose." In Taiji, where about 3,700 people live, the global uproar stirred by "The Cove" has met with equal incomprehension -- and anger. Amid the raging controversy, Taiji's fishermen started their annual hunt Wednesday, catc
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POPSPlus de 300 millions de dossiers personnels égarés...
Dans ce billet, Pierrot Példeau rapporte des données d'une étude sur les incidents qui ont mené à la perte de dossiers personnels de divers individus. J'attire votre attention que les principales causes qui ont mené à l'égarement de ces données ne sont pas celles qu'on pense. On craint beaucoup le vol des données en ligne, or il semble que c'est plus de la moitié des incidents qui soient reliés à des vols d'équipement ou à la négligence d'employés. Avez-vous sensibilisé vos employés aux bonnes pratiques de base en sécurité récemment? Certaines grandes entreprises obligent les employés à revoir ces pratiques sur une base régulière grâce à un outil de formation qui s'exécute périodiquement au moment de se brancher au réseau. À défaut de lire les règles ou de refaire la formation, on ne peut se brancher au réseau. C'est un peu drastique, mais si vos employés travaillent avec des bases de données contenant des informations sensibles ou nominative
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POPSDive right in As usual with The Big Picture it's well worth visiting the site to get full res.
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POPSGiant squid terrorise Californian coast? I think the headline of this is pretty lame. It is more likely the squid are the ones who have been terrrorized and their food sources depleted by we humans. Sounds like they are just trying to locate food.
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