Year: 2011
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How goliaths used to be
Ahhhh, those were the good old days… when ladies in bikinis and men with beards and short shorts stood next to really big fish. It’s great to see Emmett’s film of a Goliath grouper in Cuba. This pic is one of many from the archives at the Florida Keys public libraries showing the size of trophy Goliath’s caught…
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Cuba journal: Goliath
I’ve been around the block a few times, and dove on quite a few reefs over the years. On most reefs in the Caribbean — make that the West Atlantic generally — you’d be hard pressed to see a fish big enough to feed 2 or 3 people. But our last week spent in the…
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Giant predators of the ancient seas
The creatures, known as anomalocaridids, were already thought to be the largest animals of the Cambrian period. The period was known for the “Cambrian Explosion” that saw the sudden appearance of all the major animal groups and the establishment of complex ecosystems about 540 to 500 million years ago. Scientists previously thought that the animals—which…
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How to get completely out of your depth
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOdxLgiJHUU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Getting into and then out of my depth. There are all sorts of ways to get out of your depth. You can buy too many things you don’t need on your credit card, teach a class on a subject you know nothing about (ahh, the sweet sound of silence…), or run up to…
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Coral Spawn: The Movie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDJvhgPn8o[/youtube]
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Frogfish eats Lionfish
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUNhQ-uF3T4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] I’m back on those beautiful but pesky invasive lionfish again – this time, it’s not just humans that are eating them. Check out this video by Scubazoo. HT to Ed Blume for the link.
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Coral atolls and rising sea levels
Rob Painting published a great article on coral atolls and SLR on Skeptical Science here.
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Sushi: The Global Catch – new movie trailer
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23835141[/vimeo] How did sushi become a global cuisine? That’s the question filmmaker Mark Hall is tackling in this new feature-length documentary Sushi: The Global Catch, which premiers next week at the Seattle International Film Festival. From the looks of the trailer, this is going to be an awesome film. Asides from the sadly familiar scenes of…
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ENSO update
As a very strong La Nina winds down, we are entering an “ENSO neutral” phase that should last through the summer. I say hurray to that: I will be working in the Galapagos in July and during La Nina, it is REALLY cold there, especially mid year. In fact, I was in the Galapagos last…
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Genie Clark, The Shark Lady
They say never meet your heros, but after meeting one of mine I can thoroughly recommend it. During my recent visit to Mote Marine Labs in Florida I had the chance to meet Eugenie Clark – aka The Shark Lady – and what a wonderful lady she is. I’d arranged to have lunch with Genie the…