SeaMonster blog
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Shark spotting – a global perspective
I still remember the first time I saw a shark. It was in Belize, on Turneffe Atoll. I’d been waiting for it for weeks, keeping my eyes peeled for fins, until finally there it was – a great big nurse shark, snoozing peacefully on the seabed, 10 meters below me. It was every bit as…
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How the Census of Marine Life got started
Last year saw the climax of a ten-year effort to discover as much as possible about life in the oceans. It was the first census of marine life but it was more than just a very big fish-counting effort. It was an amazingly ambitious endeavor which turned out a menagerie of species new to science,…
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Lionfish Invasion, part 1
[wpvideo GCZJibYC] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.
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Another Ocean
We are not alone. Well, we may yet turn out to be alone — in the sense of being (along with whales, primates, and various other earthbound animals) the only sentient living beings in the universe. But our world ocean is evidently not the only one there is. Astronomers have just published a new paper…
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Red mangrove restoration in Ecuador
Andres Ledergerber, director and head scientist of the Congal Biomarine Station in Muisne Ecuador, talks about restoring red mangroves to a former shrimp farm. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25589680[/vimeo]
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Octopus Houdini
Octopuses have a gift for squeezing themselves through any hole larger than their beaks. Is this what childbirth is like? [cincopa AUCAPoKGL9ML] This video was filmed by Chance Miller of Miller’s Landing in Seward, Alaska
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Ben Wilson kitesurfing a huge wave
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcUOOi_E8k[/youtube]
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Cuba Journal: Day 8 – Adios
Day 8: Friday 3 June Peace. A gentle breeze coming down the creek between the mangroves and through the corridor of the house, rustling the drying wetsuits over the concrete porch, faint bird and insect songs from the mangroves all around us. A jutilla climbs down out of the trees into the dinghy tied off…
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Shark fishing in Madagascar
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/5897559[/vimeo] Here’s another movie by filmmaker John Slayer, this time with an insight into the shark fisheries of Madagascar.
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Powers of the Cosmic Dusty Seas
Maybe it’s just my love for neon colors that drew me to Christine Nguyen’s wall mural, What the Oceans Left Behind (pictured above, and part of her Powers of the Cosmic Dusty Seas exhibit). But there is something even more captivating about her work – something which operates in that strange territory where art and…
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