Author: Helen Scales
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Orca thinks he’s an outboard engine
If you haven’t already watched (and listened!) to this video clip then you’re missing out. Apparently this is Luna, a lone male killer whale, who lived in the waters around Vancouver Island until his untimely death in a tugboat collision in 2006. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b2U5r7Jwkc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] HT to the Huffington Post
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Meet Bernard the Gurnard & vote for UK marine reserves
Another cute save-the-ocean animation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3neAZv23Q&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] From the UK Wildlife Trusts Petition Fish campaign and the creative folks at archipelago.
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Do the stingray shuffle
If you happened to be listening to BBC Radio 4 today, you might have heard me searching for dwarf seahorses in Tampa Bay, Florida. As I’m wading about between patches of seagrass I declare that we’re all doing the ‘stingray shuffle’. The host of the radio show, Saving Species, had a good chuckle and wondered if…
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Kelly Slater wins 11th world title
Yesterday at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_UMGQfzsY&feature=share[/youtube]
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Between the harvest: internationally banned. legally harvested.
Check out this beautiful trailer to a short documentary about collecting olive ridley turtle eggs during their mass nesting or ‘arribadas’ (arrival by the sea) in Ostional, Costa Rica. From the Between the Harvest website: Told through the eyes of both people and turtles, this short documentary delves into one of the biggest controversies in the marine world:…
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Shipwrecks: fair game treasure or sacred sites?
Do shipwrecks need protecting? The answer seems to be a resounding No, judging by the lack of enthusiasm globally for a decade-old treaty aimed at doing just that. From Blackbeard’s pirate ship to WWII war graves there are thought to be 3 million…
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How fish food became cat food
Great Menhaden infographic from Pew – way to get a message across. [Source: Pew Environment Group]
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Why do oceans matter?
Here’s why: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qojYm8JHKfE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] From One World One Ocean
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Watch out tasty reef critters
Coral reefs are dangerous places to hang out if you’re small and tasty. There are many mouths out to get you and now there’s one more thing to worry about: mobs of fish rampaging the reef in search of dinner. Recently here at Seamonster we’ve had fish brandishing tools and now we have cunning fish…
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The Dead Sea isn’t so dead
Life as we know it doesn’t exactly thrive in the Dead Sea. No fish have evolved to put up with the notoriously salty waters. But weird new forms of microbial life have been discovered inhabiting a network of massive craters at the bottom of the Dead Sea. A diverse mixture of sun-worshipping and sulphide-munching bacteria have…