Sea Monster

Author: John Bruno

  • These girls can surf!

    From the finals of the 2011 RoxyPro held at Snapper Rocks, Queensland

  • Thieving sperm whale

    From Science Friday: For years, longline fishermen in Alaska have complained that whales have been stealing their sablefish catch. A team of researchers, including Aaron Thode, Delphine Mathias and Jan Straley, mounted a video camera to a fishing line and caught a sperm whale stealing.  Footage courtesy of Delphine Mathias, Aaron Thode, Jan Straley, Kendall…

  • See through sea monsters!

    This is too cool Hat tip to my BlueCarbonProject partner Kat Grigg

  • Legendary Surfer Sion Milosky Drowns at Mavericks

                      The surfing world is in shock over the death of legendary big wave surfer Sion Milosky at Mavericks. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/21173687[/vimeo]

  • Fish Know to Avoid the Spear

    A successfully speared medium sized Oriental Sweetlips Plectorhinchus orientalis. This is towards the upper end of the size range of fishes typically targeted by Papua New Guinean spear fishers. Fish are not as dumb as people sometimes think: marine scientists have found that fish that are regularly hunted with spearguns are much more wary and…

  • Ryan Hipwood riding some sick slabs!

    Ryan is an amazing surfer and some of these rides on ferocious waves like the opening sequence at Shippies and the eventual rides at Teahupoo are insane. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/21368104[/vimeo]

  • Revisiting the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Claudia Dreifus recently published a great interview with oceanographer Dr Samantha Joye in the Science section of the New York Times (here). Until a year ago, the marine scientist Samantha Joye studied a fairly obscure natural phenomenon: the seepage of oil from undersea deposits into deepwater environments. Then, in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon…

  • Galapagos intertidal research

    This is a cool video produced by Pat Davison, a photographer and professor here at UNC in the School of Journalism.  It is about research being done by Lindsey Carr and Pamela Reynolds (two PhD students in my lab) on San Cristobal Island in the Galapagos.  I plan to post a lot of Galapagos-relataed content in…

  • New study finds growth of corals on the Belize Barrier Reef is slowing

    A new study just published in PLos One (Castillo et al 2010) indicates massive corals (Siderastrea sideria) on the outer reefs of the Belizean Barrier Reef are growing more slowly than they did during the early and middle 20th century. Lead author Karl Castillo (a post doc in my lab) is from southern Belize near…

  • Great white shark attack video!

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4YjmwCs6H0&feature[/youtube]For our young male readership…