Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report This statue of the Japanese god of fortune - who is also the patron of fishermen - has been found on the seabed and lifted out of the ocean after it was swept away during the devastating 2011 tsunami. The statue of Ebisu…
Story By: Angjela Trajkovska, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency:Central European News This is the mysterious device that Croatian fishermen pulled from the Adriatic Sea before the US military demanded they hand it over. The device was ‘caught’ between the island of Mljet and the island of Sveti Andrija, part of the Elaphiti Islands archipelago in the Adriatic…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@SEMAR_mx This is the moment two shipwrecked fisherman are rescued from a floating fridge after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico. The incident occurred after a shipping vessel named Adriana set off from the San Pedro area of the…
Story By: Lee Bullen,Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@animalmalaysia This is the moment a plankton-eating whale shark sidles up to a boat and allows the fisherman to remove a rope caught around its midriff before appearing to thank the men with several swishes of its tail. The incident was filmed off…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This viral video with over a million views shows big-hearted fishermen releasing a shark back into the ocean after turning down fishmongers who wanted to make soup from its fins. The shark, the species of which was not mention, was accidentally caught in…
