Marine biologist Forrest Galante was free-diving off the coast of California when he caught this mouthwatering beast; a humongous Pacific Spiny lobster weighing close to 12 pounds.
Instead of eating the 70 year old crustacean, Galante denied himself of what was guaranteed to be best meal of his life and briefly loaned lobster to science before setting it free in a protected marine sanctuary.
Now that’s willpower.
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The EU will propose to G7 finance ministers this week to lower the current $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil as part of the new sanctions package against Moscow, European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday.
The prospect of a deal over Iran’s nuclear program saw oil fall sharply on Thursday. The reality is that Tehran has relatively little extra crude that it can bring back — but it could arrive in a market that’s gearing up for surplus.
Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a "shadow fleet" defying Western sanctions on Moscow.
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