The transformation is immediate and electrifying: all sense of blundering clumsiness is banished – well, most of it at least. I can see fish below and an edge to the coral, beyond which all is darkness. Most of all I am breathing, and continue to do so as I sink gently towards that reef, through a shoal of barracuda, a scattering of graceful angelfish and stern-faced giant trevallies. And then I hover, a metre above the fantastic array of colour and life: knobbly gaping blue sponges as big as Ali Baba’s jars, vast skeletal forms of Gorgonian fans, a clown triggerfish with bee-stung yellow lips and harlequin decoration. No experience available to humans is quite like this. You enter a realm in which you have no place, a realm more weird and wonderful, I suspect, than anything in outer space. … [Read more...] about Cousteau country: scuba diving in Papua New Guinea
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Capitol rioter Peter Stager who ‘beat cop with US flag’ and threatened lawmakers is charged as 100 arrested
Trump made the statement after the House voted to impeach him a second time on the grounds that he incited the Capitol riots. … [Read more...] about Capitol rioter Peter Stager who ‘beat cop with US flag’ and threatened lawmakers is charged as 100 arrested