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Diver dressed as Santa Claus feeds fish inside tank at Tokyo Aquarium
With Christmas just around the corner, Santa Claus made an underwater appearance at a Tokyo aquarium on Wednesday.
One young visitor covered his eyes as he watched a diver dressed as Santa swim with sharks and feed sting ray at the...
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Free diver faces his fears and swims with the sharks at aquarium
1. Various of free diver Pierre Frolla diving with sharks in large aquarium
2. Spectators watching through glass side of aquarium
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Olivier Beautier, spectator:
"I practice diving, but... it would be difficult to me...
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Galicia's fish and shellfish workers hit by financial crisis
1. Various of fishing vessels in dock
2. Various of small fishing boats in harbour
3. Mid of fish market in port with boxes of sea urchins in foreground
4. Close-up focus shift of sea urchins
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Gomez, General...
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JAPAN: OKINAWAN LEADERS TO EXPLOIT TOURISM OF SURROUNDING ISLETS
Japanese/Nat
Okinawan leaders, who are hoping to completely rid the Japanese island of U-S troops over the next 20 years, want to exploit the tourist potential of surrounding islets.
But while an onslaught of tourists might fill the...
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Japan walkout throws whaling talks into disarray
1. Wide, top shot, tilt up interior of International Whaling Commission (IWC) conference
2. Close-up of IWC logo on projector screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Monica Medina, Head of US delegation to International Whaling Commission:
"Well...
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Whaling chief says no guarantee of end to killing
1. Anti-whaling protester talking to tourists
2. Anti-whaling banner reading (English) 'Don't gives us your lies. Stop whaling or be stopped.'
3. Anti-whaling protester talking to tourists
4. Wide of International Whaling Commission...
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Tourists disappointed by sudden disappearance of ''Frisco''s sea lions
San Francisco, California - December
1. Various of empty pier
2. Close-up sea lions swimming
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramteen Rezai, tourist from Toronto:
"I was disappointed as soon as I realized they disappeared."
4. Close-up Pier 39...
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Isolated Siberian town shrivels after Soviet era
AP Television
Chersky, Russia - October 21 - 28, 2010
1. Wide aerial view of Chersky with plane propeller on left of shot
2. Close up of passenger looking out of plane window
3. Mid aerial view of Chersky
4. Mid of people getting out...
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S.Africa -Ivory&Abalone Shellfish Smugglers Caught
South African police said on Tuesday (9/5) they had arrested a
Chinese couple and a Hong Kong national for trying to smuggle 800
kg (1,760 lbs) of ivory and two tonnes of abalone shellfish to
Asia. Colonel Piet Lategan, commanding...
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The world's oceans this summer are hotter than they have ever been and it could feed hurricanes and harm coral, according to NOAA.
HEADLINE: World's oceans warmest on record
CAPTION: The world's oceans this summer are hotter than they have ever been and it could feed hurricanes and harm coral, according to NOAA. (Aug. 21)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
[Notes:beach/ocean...
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Ice carving competition at Helsinki Zoo
1. Wide, pan right of competition area showing artists carving ice sculptures
2. Close of artist using power tool
3. Wide of artist inspecting his sculpture
4. Mid of artist working on his project
5. Mid, set up shot of Finnish sculptor...
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Catfish on the brink of extinction
Mekong River, near Phnom Penh
1. Fisherman trying to get Giant Mekong Catfish out of water
2. Head of fish in water
3. Green marking tag is inserted into fin of fish
4. Mid shot of the fish
5. Fishermen carry fish out of river, in a...
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USA: LOS ANGELES: SEA LIONS ARE LATEST VICTIMS OF EL NINO
English/Nat
Sea lions have become the latest victims of the El Nino effect which is being blamed for the relentless storms that have pounded California's coastline.
Deprived of squid and other nutrition due to the unnaturally warm ocean...
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Coral reefs around Japan are being devoured by starfish
1. Okudaira Kento (a diving instructor) takes a group of divers to the coral reefs at Yabiji.
2. Boat approaches one section of the reef.
3. Okudaira San's assistant prepares to anchor the boat.
4. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Kajiwara...
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A look at the region on the first anniversary of the devastating oil spill
AP Television
FILE: Gulf of Mexico - April 2010
1. Tilt down from smoke plumes over the Gulf of Mexico to flames where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded
2. Close-up of red, oil slicked water in the Gulf
3. Oil floating on top of water...
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Asian carp may be a plankton-gobbling nuisance threatening the Great Lakes, but Illinois officials on Thursday expressed hope in changing that perception one bite at a time.
Headline: Illinois launches Asian carp anti-hunger program
caption: Asian carp were imported from China and escaped into the Mississippi River in the 1970s and now Illinois officials want to stop this invasive species from entering the...
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Greenpeace dumps whale outside Japanese embassy
++Night shots++
1. Wide pan of Greenpeace banner and dead whale outside Japanese embassy
2. "Stop whaling!" banner over dead whale
3. Pan left dead whale
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Simon, Greenpeace member:
"This whale is here...
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SOUTH AFRICA: PENGUINS HIT BY OIL SPILL
English/Nat
A stretch of pristine coastline in Cape Town, South Africa, was coated in thick black sludge after a tanker sank, discharging 13-hundred tons of fuel into the ocean.
The ecological disaster prompted a massive operation to...
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Whale watchers gather to see the Southern Right Whale
1. Wide Gansbaai Harbour near Hermanus
2. Whale watching sign
3. Still picture showing whale breeching
4. Whale watching boat out at sea
5. Mid tourists on boat
6. Wide tourist looking through binoculars at whales
7. Whale at sea
8. Mid...
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US tourist injured in a shark attack, day after surfer killed
Zihuatanejo, Pantla beach, Mexico - 23 May 2008
1. Wide of Aldo Mata's body on beach, covered with sheet
2. Mid of girls crying
3. Wide of person crying next to body
4. Body being put on stretcher
5. Stretcher being carried up beach
6....
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Attempts to free beached whale
1. Pull out and pan from Sugar Loaf Mountain to wide of Jurujuba Beach, showing a tug boat helping to rescue whale
2. Wide of whale on the beach
3. Close up of whale breathing
4. Wide of rescue workers trying to help the whale
5....
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Washed up penguins set to sail back to Patagonia
1. Wide of navy ship, the Ary Rongel
2. Close of Brazilian flag
3. Tilt down from media and spectators on ship to penguins in tanks
4. Various of penguins
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Giselda Candiotto, Director of Niteroi Zoo:
"Today...
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Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish.
HEADLINE:Raw Video: Nyad ends Cuba-to-Fla. swim
CAPTION: Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish. (Aug. 21) ...