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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Rhode Island nightclub burns – 2003

Via History.com

A fire at a rock concert in a West Warwick, Rhode Island, nightclub kills 100 people and seriously injures almost 200 more on February 20, 2003. It was the deadliest such fire in the United States since 165 people were killed at the Beverly Hill Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, in 1977.

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NO F#$KING WAY

Via the BBC

A shark said to be Deep Blue, one of the largest great whites on record, swims off Hawaii, January 15, 2019

A team of divers has had a close encounter with one of the biggest great white sharks on record – and lived to tell the tale.

Some of the divers came so close to the female shark in the waters off Hawaii that they were able to touch it.

The shark, nearly 20ft (6m) long and weighing an estimated 2.5 tonnes, is believed to be one tagged by researchers about 20 years ago called Deep Blue.

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