• Question: What is the coolest thing you saw

    Asked by 573evoa49 to Anthea, Chloe, Kevin, Michel, Sean on 11 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kevin Healy

      Kevin Healy answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      One of my lectures brought liquid nitrogen into calss one day and we got to freeze any random objects we had (I froze and smashed some strawberries). At a temperature of −196 °C in atmosheric pressures it is probably literally the coolest thing I have ever seen :-p

    • Photo: Anthea Lacchia

      Anthea Lacchia answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      I’m not sure I can beat Kevin’s sight of liquid nitrogen, but I was lucky enough to go on a conservation trip to Africa and seeing the big 5 (lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and buffalo) in the wild was breathtaking! 😉

    • Photo: Chloe Kinsella

      Chloe Kinsella answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      The coolest animal I have seen in the wild is an octopus. I saw it when I was working on a fishing boat in Waterford. I was recording information on the size of the lobsters that the fisherman was catching. When the fisherman pulled up one of the lobster cages there was a big white jelly thing stuck onto the side of the cage. When I got closer I saw it was an octopus. It fell off the cage and landed in the boat. Using its suckers and 8 arms it crawled across the boat until it latched onto my wellies and one of my legs. I was absolutely terrified! With a bit of struggle I pulled it off and put it back into the sea. Soon after I saw it shoot out a squirt of ink and it quickly swam away. It was an amazing but scary experience!

    • Photo: Michel Dugon

      Michel Dugon answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      The coolest thing I ever saw… wow… they have been many cool things through the years! One of my most exciting moment is when I was looking for spiders in a forest in North Malaysia. It’s a very remote jungle with very little human activity. I was on a boat on my way to a little lake island and we saw a tiger swimming in the distance!

    • Photo: Sean Kelly

      Sean Kelly answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      One of the coolest things I have seen was a huge, 12 foot wide Manta Ray in Hawaii. I went snorkelling off the beach at night to see them feeding around the boats of lights. It was incredible! These huge, very strange looking fish are effectively flying through the water. The light of the boats on the water attracts plankton and then the rays come in to feed on the plankton. They have huge mouths (bigger than my head) and I was a little nervous being so close to them, even though I know they wouldn’t hurt me. It was incredible to watch them doing backwards somersaults in the water!

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