Dolphin

Anuar Patjane Floriuk’s extraordinary black and white underwater photographs have been winning awards and stunning people around the globe for several years now. His painterly monochrome compositions present an undersea universe from a perspective that evokes a thrilling sense of wonder.

Divers already have the option of replacing their two regular swim fins with one dolphin fluke-like rubber monofin, although aerospace engineer Ron Smith claims that his invention is much more effective. Known as the DOL-Fin, it incorporates a wide rigid hydrofoil-type fin.

The Seabreacher is a two-seater, fully-submersible watercraft that was modeled on a dolphin.

German electrical automation company Festo has used the shape of the acquatic, flightless bird to construct bionic penguins.

The recently-launched luxury Atlantis hotel is impressive, and not surprisingly everything about it is big - from the development price of US$1.5 billion to its size - over 46 hectares of reclaimed land - and its 1, 539 rooms; it also features a massive 17 hectares of water park activities and an 11