Author: John Bruno
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Chopes Code Red
As hurricane Irene chugged up the east coast of North American yesterday, history was made in Tahiti with the biggest swell ever seen or surfed at Teahupoo. The Tahitian government called a rare code red (no boats allowed to leave port) and ISP contest organizers called off the Billabong Pro Tahiti for another day and…
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Billabong Pro Tahiti – Day 7 Highlights
Very heavy. Lots of insane wipeouts. And the swell is building! Watch live today here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTm42Iq9Rb0&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
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Sailors for the sea
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpPun4_53M&[/youtube] I ran across this neat organization on facebook called Sailors for the sea. They promote sustainability and ocean education in the sailing world. Their site has a nice list of tips about Clean Boating and a carbon calculator and information about offsetting carbon emissions. Speaking of sailers as ocean advocates, a group of sailors…
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Shrimp on a treadmill?!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMO8Pyi3UpY[/youtube]If you haven’t heard about it, read here or listen to this. I see Senator Coburn’s point about the Antarctic jello wrestling (surely another instance of Scientists Behaving Badly), but I must confess to having witnessed Dr. Emmett Duffy put very tiny eusocial shrimp on very tiny treadmills in communist Cuba. Surely on Uncle Sam’s dollar!!!…
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Fishing gear altered to limit by-catch
There is a good article in the NYT by Cornelia Dean about by-catch and changes in fishing gear designed to reduce it: But new efforts to protect marine creatures have gained surprising support from researchers, regulators, engineers and fishermen. The issue is bycatch — fish, whales, turtles, sea birds and even corals killed or injured…
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5 Reason’s why surfer’s should get into kitesurfing
from Ben Wilson kiting [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/27394354[/vimeo]
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Colors of the Galapagos Islands
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Billabong Pro Tahiti surf contest starts today
The Billabong Pro Tahiti surf contest started just a few hours ago at the famed surf break Teahupoo. The swell is 4-6 ft perfect tubes and should build considerably later in the week. You can watch heats live here. Watch highlights from yesterdays warm up session: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiTTNLzwNg&[/youtube]
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Happy Galapagos Sea Lion
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Live and let die
A new paper in PLoS One (Maina et al. 2011) presents a new map of threats to the world’s coral reefs (Fig. 1). The map is based in part on data – spatial patterns – of past stressors such as ocean warming. For example, Maina used the Coral Reef Temperature Anomal Database (CorTAD) my lab…