Sea Monster

Author: John Bruno

  • Shark week on SeaMonster

    Tomorrow is day 1 of the Discovery Channel’s famed “Shark Week” – a 7 day orgy of sharks behaving badly, ie, eating stuff. I know zillions of people love it and I know there is some education value there. In fact, this years Shark Week web site has quite a lot of good educational content…

  • Following up on the Galapagos Shark massacre

    Deep Sea News has been publishing so many must read stories I can’t keep up!  For example, See Rick M’s great follow up on the Galapagos shark saga; The truly unfortunate fact is that this news is neither new nor uncommon. And it is global Designation of any parcel of ocean “as protected”, formally or informally, is no guarantee…

  • Bondi 8am

    Today’s picture of Bondi beach from Aquabumps;

  • Nothing trendy about conservation

    A nice reminder from Jim’s blog at the Surfrider Foundation. The truth is that there is nothing trendy about conservation. It’s a simple concept which is timeless. Protect the things you love. Read the whole post here.

  • Stop illegal overfishing t-shirt

    Stop illegal overfishing t-shirt, original design by Made In The Now, available here for 12 more hours! Renowned graphic designer Ben Johnston of JosephMark created the design. It means we’re not full of fish, ie, the oceans are being depleted.

  • Anatomy of a shark heist

    Below is a guest post by Lindsey Carr, a PhD student in my lab at UNC. Lindsey is doing her dissertation research on the dynamics of shallow subtidal communities across the Galapagos archipelago. Her post is excerpted from a report she wrote for the Galapagos National Park about the catch found on the illegal vessel.…

  • Get your reef on

    From coral reef scientist, rapper and new father, Dr. Josh Idjadi and SeaMonster, where the rap is real. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flDE0W1Ks_4[/youtube] Subtitled version is here

  • What a marine massacre looks like

    Yesterday I led a team of eight scientists and students from UNC, USFQ and the Galapagos Science Center that documented the catch aboard a vessel caught illegally long lining in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. We worked alongside a great team from the Galapagos National Park and were also assisted by the Ecuadorian Coast Guard.  We identified, sexed, and measured every individual (there…

  • Breaking news: 357 dead sharks found on illegal fishing vessel in Galapagos National Park

    Check back on SeaMonster or go here for updates and related posts I’m in the conference room of the Galapagos Science Center overlooking the harbor of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on the island of San Cristobal in the Galapagos. There is a lot of commotion around a new addition to the habors fishing fleet: a rundown small ship from…

  • Great white shark jumps into research vessel

    Talk about jumping the shark – from the Guardian…  And what a fiasco.  Hat tip to Adrian Stier. Marine researchers in South Africa had a narrow escape after a three-metre-long great white shark breached the surface of the sea and leapt into their boat, becoming trapped on deck for more than an hour. The incident occurred while…