SeaMonster blog
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Life at sea
Miriam Goldstein has a super post up at DSN about the logistical challenges of floating libertarian paradises like the conceived “Seasteading” city above. She points out that it can get, well pretty rough at times at sea (in some places all the time). Stuff exposed to salt water and air tends to corrode (in a matter…
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Catch Shares
Michael Conathan of the CAP has a nice article on catch shares out here and another on some of the reaction in the US congress to it here. Catch shares is a way of regulating commercial fishing (and managing fisheries) that NOAA has been implementing for roughly the last two years that is based on a…
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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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Shark in the streets of Puerto Rico. (OK, we ARE making this up.)
Late-breaking erratum: My initial suspicion of this one was confirmed by our intrepid readers and commentors Mark and David. It is, in fact, bogus. Thanks Guys! Doh! Just missed shark week on this one. I am going somewhat against my better instincts as a scientist cum journalist in reproducing this without a full background check.…
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Board’s-Eye View
Check out this awesome video of Kalani Robb surfing in slow motion! [cincopa AQPAYtan8MxR]
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Hydrogen-powered hydrothermal vent critters
Scientists have discovered a third source of energy used by animals in the deep sea. Hydrothermal vents aren’t for the feint hearted. It’s very dark and unbelievably hot down there, not to mention the pressure – we’re talking many miles beneath the waves, here – and all those zingy chemicals, gushing out from cracks in…
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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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All the things in the sea (and on land too)
Number of species alive today = 8.7 million. About a quarter of them live in the sea. That’s the news from a study just out that examines what we don’t know about life on earth. It means that should aliens come down and ask one…
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