Kurson provides one of the best narratives about SCUBA diving, and high risk shipwreck exploration, that I’ve ever come across. I love his description of navigating a wreck:
“A diver who enters a wreck…must conceive of space differently than he does on land…He must remember everything – every twist, turn, rise, and fall – and he must do so in an environment of few obvious landmarks and where most everything is sweatered in sea anemones.
Salt, a North Atlantic humpback whale, has been tracked by the Center for Coastal Studies (Provincetown, MA) since 1970s. She became a great grandmother this year.
Whale SENSE is a voluntary education and recognition program offered to commercial whale watching companies in the U.S. Atlantic and Alaska Regions. The program is sponsored by NOAA Fisheries, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Developed in collaboration with the whale watching industry, Whale SENSE recognizes whale watching companies committed to responsible practices. Visit whalesense.org to find responsible whale watch operators in your area.
When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.
via The Guardian
Breaching is a behavior that is rarely seen among fin whales in the wild, and it was captured on video last month off the Strait of Gibraltar.
via: GrindTV
Read a very interesting story (w/ documentary) about Old Tom, a killer whale that lived off Sydney, Australia in the early 20th century.
Last week I took a trip out to Appledore Island to check out the Shoals Marine Lab. It’s beautiful there, and the trip got me very excited to teach there later this summer. Enrollment is still open, come join us!
The [beloved] NOAA Ship Albatross IV was decommissioned in 2008, and eventually sold to the Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas in Mexico. Here is a video of the A4 arriving at the CIDIPORT Research Center. I had dreamed of purchasing this vessel, refitting it (Steve Zissou style), and using it as a charter vessel for all of my friends and colleagues. Some dreams are not meant to be…
via: Chris Tremblay
Nadine Stewart J Lysiak 