Author: Helen Scales
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Helen Scales’ five ocean books
To continue our new series BOOK HOOK here’s my top five sea reads, which come courtesy of The Browser who recently gave me the delicious task of picking my top 5 books about the ocean – a perfect challenge to set an ocean fanatic/writer like myself. The only trouble I had was narrowing down to JUST FIVE…
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Flyboarding – the next big ocean sport?
Dr Octopus eat your heart out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8kEHjQz9U[/youtube]
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Demon Fish gets the Book Hook treatment
To launch Seamonster’s brand spanking new Book Hook, I chat with journalist, author, and shark enthusiast Juliet Eilperin about her recent book Demon Fish. In it she explores the world of sharks, the fishers who catch them for food and for fun, the campaigners trying to persuade people to kick the shark-fin habit, and the scientists…
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Welcome to Book Hook
Get hooked on a book at the Seamonster’s brand new online celebration of the oceans in words. Here at Seamontser we’ve built a new shelf (a continental shelf perhaps?) and in upcoming posts we’ll be filling it up with some of our favourite oceans books, old and…
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Wave your claws in the air…
… like you just don’t care. Remember the Yeti crab? That fuzzy pawed deep sea denizen that revealed itself to science a few years ago and got given the name Kiwa hirsuta? Well, meet it’s newly-discovered cousin, Kiwa puravida. This chap has gone one step further down the weeeeird sea animals pathway. It’s not just hairy but…
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Surfing and Sharks
‘A film about close encounters in South Africa’ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32777934[/vimeo] From the Surfing and Sharks website: Every year in June the ocean swells to it’s peak, hosting the countries largest surf conditions and also becomes host to the sardine run bringing together a huge marine bio-diversity including many species of sharks. This documentary goes up close with…
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Play orca snap at Whale FM
Like listening to whale sounds? Want make a contribution to science? Then tune into Whale FM. Also known as the Whale Song Project, Whale FM is a new citizen science outfit based at Scientific American asking for your help to figure out what whales are saying and if pilot whales – like killer whales –…
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Good day for giant manta rays
Giant manta rays hit the ocean headlines today with the news that they are to gain their first ever global protection from the many problems they face. Giant mantas (Manta birostris) are to be added to the Convention on Migratory Species (or CMS), an intergovernmental treaty set up to help get nations working together to…
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Blue shark wins Ocean in Focus contest
Grand-Prize winner of this year’s Marine Photobank’s Ocean in Focus conservation photo contest is Terry Goss with this image of a blue shark snagged on a longline hook in waters off Rhode Island, US. In an interview with Marine Photobank, Terry said: When I started shooting underwater, it was immediately apparent that every shark image…
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Coral Sea could become world’s largest marine reserve
Next week, the Australian Government is expected to announce plans to protect the Coral Sea, a huge area of ocean (around 1 million square kms) between Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Conservationists are hoping the government will grasp the opportunity to fully protect this extraordinary piece of…