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Qingdao Haiwan Bridge

China has unveiled the world’s longest sea bridge, which stretches a massive 26.4 miles – five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais and longer than a marathon.

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, completed earlier this week, links the main urban area of Qingdao city, East China’s Shandong province, with Huangdao district, straddling the Jiaozhou Bay sea areas.

The road bridge, which took four years and cost a cool £5.5billion to build, will be open for use in the New Year and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

Source: dailymail

Alex Mustard's Ship Wrecks on Sea Bed

British photographer Alex Mustard has travelled the world snapping pictures of wrecked ships lying on the sea bed.

Source: telegraph

Flying Squid in Sea of Japan

Graham Ekins, 60, teacher from Boreham, Essex, had snapped photos of squid that can fly in the sea of Japan.
On the internet, try it you type "dailymail Flying Squid Japan" then you can dapatin story about flying squid from Japan. Flying squid are even able to fly up to 20 feet high. The case is indeed strange flying squid and less plausible, but the explanation is that when squid is experiencing a panic by the wave generated by the boat motor boat, then reflexively, this squid will experience panic. Yes, panic is what encourages energy to these animals to fly. This is her photograph flying squid in the sea of Japan:

Nudibranch aka Sea Slugs

A nudibranch (pronounced /ˈnjuːdɨbræŋk/)[1] is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, and what was previously a suborder, of soft-bodied, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks, which are noted for their often extraordinary colors and striking forms. The clade Nudibranchia is the largest clade within the heterobranchs, with more than 3,000 described species.

The word "nudibranch" comes from the Latin nudus, naked, and the Greek brankhia, gills.

Nudibranchs are often casually called "sea slugs", a non-scientific term. This has led some people to assume that every sea slug must be a nudibranch. Nudibranchs are very numerous in terms of species, and are often very attractive and noticeable, but there are a wide variety of other kinds of sea slugs, and these belong to several taxonomic groups that are not very closely related to nudibranchs. A fair number of these other sea slugs are colorful, and can be confused with nudibranchs.