“The family of pigs, dubbed ‘adorable’ by tourists, locals and media alike, have become incredibly popular,” says The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism website. “They live freely on the sandy beaches… The pigs, though feral, are exceptionally friendly,” it continues, “running from under the shade of the almond trees to greet visitors that bring them treats.”

However, after the recent incident, some regulations will have to be introduced. V Alfred Gray, the country’s Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources, said from now on “people will be able to take photographs and see the pigs swim… but they will not be able to feed them things.”

7 out of around 22 famous Bahamian swimming pigs were found dead after tourists fed them alcohol

“[They] were given the wrong food… We had them pigs there almost 30 years, and never has this happened”

“Right now it’s blowing out of proportion with people, anybody, bringing food there…”

“Giving the pigs beer, rum, riding on top of them”

“The family of pigs, dubbed ‘adorable’ by tourists, locals and media alike, have become incredibly popular”

“They live freely on the sandy beaches… The pigs, though feral, are exceptionally friendly…”

“Running from under the shade of the almond trees to greet visitors that bring them treats”

However, after the recent incident, some regulations will have to be introduced

“People will be able to take photographs and see the pigs swim… but they will not be able to feed them things”

Watch the video here:

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But that doesn’t mean you didn’t also spend every other waking moment bugging your parents for your own pool.

We can only imagine that José Adimilson Franco’s children did just that…until he finally gave in. But only on his terms. An in-ground pool can cost a pretty penny, so instead of going super deluxe, he did this.

Trust us, you’re going to want to do this, too!
First, he bought an upright pool and set it up.

But that wasn’t enough! In an effort to hide the pool’s frame, he built a frame out of two-by-fours around the pool.

Cover the frame with planks of wood and stain the deck to your desired color.

He added stairs for easy access. You can even turn this into a mini porch!

So who’s ready to make a trip to Home Depot to get started? An in-ground pool can put you out thousands of dollars, but not this bad boy!

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In one life changing photo session, he spent over three hours free diving with two bulls (males) and one cow (female). Their inquisitive nature led to a depth of interaction beyond anything he has ever experienced, as each took their turn to welcome him into their world and put on a show for the camera.

Fin Swipe

Tail

Whale Stars

Contact

This particular image was taken approximately 5 meters from the subjects. As this was taken, I was swimming back to the boat and felt something following me – I turned around and my new friends were close behind keen to keep on playing.

This extreme close up was taken approximately 6 foot away from her tail. The movement generated from the flick of the tail forced me back, but only after I managed to capture this.

A super close up of a Humpbacks fin

Grace

Cub

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Gustavo Silva Nuñez is getting a lot of attention for his hyper realistic paintings and it’s not hard to see why. If you were standing close to one of these paintings you would think you might get wet. That’s how real they look.

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These people decided to build their own swimming pool and it ended up looking a lot cooler than any swimming pool they could have purchased.

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The pool opened in December 2006.

Have you ever thought your backyard or public swimming pool was just too darned small? Maybe it’d be nice to have something a little bigger? How does half a mile long pool sound? What about a deep end that’s 135 feet? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

The San Alfonso del Mar is a private resort in Algarrobo, Chile that boasts the world’s largest swimming pool. Not a bad attraction tourist attraction. The pool is 0.6 miles long covering 20 acres in total. At any given time it contains around 66,000,000 gallons of filtered seawater from the Pacific Ocean.

It currently holds the Guinness World Record for largest pool in the world by area.

That water. Just wow.

The pool cost an estimated $1.5 to $2 billion to build.

The water filtration system alone cost about $3.5 million.

I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I want to join in.

Google maps aerial view of the pool.

Annual maintenance for the pool costs about $4 million.

If you get sick of the pool (not likely) you can go to the beach.

Have you ever wanted to go sailing in a pool? Now you can.

The pool water is about 16°F warmer than the ocean.

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The Starkenberger beer swimming pools in the Austrian brewery Starkenberger. The reservation is $ 298 per pool.

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NASA’s giant pool in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) is used for spacemen training for spacewalks. It has 6.2 million gallons (23.5 million liters), is 202 feet (62 m) long, 101 feet (31 m) wide, and 40 feet (12 m) deep.

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Amazing photos capturing the last moments of a penguin in icy waters off the Antarctic Peninsula before being eaten by a leopard seal. And here we’ve got even more photos of leopard seals.

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Great images of people swimming with sharks.

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