Odd / Tags / Coast

ODD / NEWS Thu Feb 28, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- A fisherman swam for more than 10 hours to find help for the two companions he left behind after their boat sank off the east coast of Australia. The exhausted swimmer was found on a beach, and coastguards were then able to find one of the men. He had.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3½-inch arrow-shaped projectile that ha.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 2:38am neoform

Yahoo News -- The U.S. Coast Guard plucked a man and his pet bird from a 75-foot (23-meter) tree on Tuesday evening after he became stranded while trying to coax the creature out of the branches. "Local rescue units including ladder trucks ... were not able to get c.. Read More