Sea Monster

Year: 2011

  • Lionfish Invasion, part 1

    [wpvideo GCZJibYC] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.

  • Another Ocean

    We are not alone. Well, we may yet turn out to be alone — in the sense of being (along with whales, primates, and various other earthbound animals) the only sentient living beings in the universe. But our world ocean is evidently not the only one there is. Astronomers have just published a new paper…

  • Red mangrove restoration in Ecuador

    Andres Ledergerber, director and head scientist of the Congal Biomarine Station in Muisne Ecuador, talks about restoring red mangroves to a former shrimp farm. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25589680[/vimeo]

  • Octopus Houdini

    Octopuses have a gift for squeezing themselves through any hole larger than their beaks. Is this what childbirth is like? [cincopa AUCAPoKGL9ML] This video was filmed by Chance Miller of Miller’s Landing in Seward, Alaska

  • Ben Wilson kitesurfing a huge wave

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcUOOi_E8k[/youtube]

  • Cuba Journal: Day 8 – Adios

    Day 8: Friday 3 June Peace. A gentle breeze coming down the creek between the mangroves and through the corridor of the house, rustling the drying wetsuits over the concrete porch, faint bird and insect songs from the mangroves all around us. A jutilla climbs down out of the trees into the dinghy tied off…

  • Shark fishing in Madagascar

    [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/5897559[/vimeo] Here’s another movie by filmmaker John Slayer, this time with an insight into the shark fisheries of Madagascar.

  • Powers of the Cosmic Dusty Seas

    Maybe it’s just my love for neon colors that drew me to Christine Nguyen’s wall mural, What the Oceans Left Behind (pictured above, and part of her Powers of the Cosmic Dusty Seas exhibit). But there is something even more captivating about her work – something which operates in that strange territory where art and…

  • Ten questions for Helen Scales

    Dr. Helen Scales is a freelance writer, broadcaster and marine biologist based in Cambridge, UK. She earned her doctorate degree from Cambridge University and studied the lives and loves of a fish called the Napoleon wrasse or humphead wrasse, a rare and endangered giant on coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Helen usually interviews me,…

  • Emperor penguin takes a wrong turn

                    This beautiful picture is an emperor penguin that’s pitched up a long way from home. It took a wrong turn and ended up on a beach in New Zealand. It was found by local resident Christine Walker who said: “It was out of this world to see it…