Author: Helen Scales
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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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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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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…
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More of the Chagos underwater world
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/17274137[/vimeo] Here’s another movie clip from filmmaker Jon Slayer that catches a glimpse of the Chagos Islands’ beautiful coral reefs. There’s also some great top-side footage of hermit crabs, sea birds, and a moray eel in a shallow tidal pool catching, wrestling with, and swallowing a crab.
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Meet the elusive eels
Dan Laffoley from IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas tells a glorious story of the European eel and some of the crazy things it gets up to, in another installment of Naked Oceans‘ Critter of the Month feature.
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What lives above, on, and in the oceans?
What lives above, on, and in the oceans? Pelicans of course… and what’s not to like about a pelican? Here’s our very own Seamonster John Bruno taking his turn picking the Critter of the Month on the Naked Oceans podcast.
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Beautiful jellyfish that lost their sting – or have they?
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23079092[/vimeo] Hello beautiful jellyfish. Check out this gorgeous movie shot at that famous lake in Palau where the stingers have lost their sting – or have they? Have a read of this National Wildlife magazine article and interview with jellyfish scientist, Laura Bell, who busts a popular misconception and reveals that they do have stings,…
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Quest for the curly-tailed horses
A little while ago, I made a rather wonderful discovery – I uncovered a forgotten pioneer of underwater filmmaking (and I found some seahorses). It was the title of Noel Monkman’s autobiography that caught my eye: Quest of the curly-tailed horses. And to…
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Why tiger sharks are cool
Sharks are cool creatures, right? We’re all agreed on that? Good. But tiger sharks are especially cool. Boris Worm from Dalhousie University in Canada picked them as his “Critter of the Month” on the Naked Oceans podcast a while back. Each month – just for…
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Why Chagos matters
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12765395[/vimeo] Yesterday I went to a conference in London billed as an opportunity to discuss the future of the Chagos Islands. Sadly, I don’t think we really got a chance to do that properly because the drama and tragedy of the island’s human history took over. I don’t deny it is a truly terrible story…