Destroying our Oceans
If you don’t think we are changing the oceans for good think again. Maddening video, photos and graphics from the LA Times.
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- The Ranch claims a life.
-comment- - Teaser for Brian Conoly's, My Eyes Won't Dry 3. I hope he mixes it up with some B roll and 2nd angles a bit on this one, but even if he doesn't, it's gonna be amazing.
-comment- - I completely, totally forgot about hurricane season.
-comment- - Kiribati warned that by the end of the century, their country would be underwater, due to global warming. They should start on this Maritime colony project now. Anyone surf there?
-comment- - This has to be the most indepth look at the Brazilian tidal bore surfing ever created. Check out video of Jon Rose and Masatoshi Ohno at Nissan and photos at Surfline.
-comment- - The Jet Stream as viewed from the South pole gives a pretty clear indication of why the next few weeks is going to be pretty small. What we need, is a trough from under NZ to halfway across the Atlantic, then a northward spike pointing directly at us.
-comment- - Get Dorked. Some old rad Ed Roth stickers.
-comment- - 46% of White shark attacks were on divers, but in attacks in which the victim was collecting marine creatures, only 10% of attacks were against urchin divers. Abalone divers didn't fair so well though in this statistic, as 56% of those attacks were against them.
-comment- - The Cali Department of Fish and Game has an Urchin Fishery page which contains some really interesting info: The number one diver in 2006 brought in 233 thousand pounds, worth 118 thousand dollars. Another tidbit: The total California catch has declined dramatically from 25 million pounds in 1991 to 7.5 million pounds in 2003.
-comment- - Blue Water Gold Rush, is the diary of a California urchin diver. Mmmmmm.... fresh uni!
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September 1st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Upwelling can cause “dead zones” in the ocean…
Earlier this month there was an area off the Oregon coast where the seafloor was littered with piles of dead sea life (typically slow-moving sea life, like crabs, worms, jellyfish - but no dead fish were found). This is the……
September 1st, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Altered Oceans: latimes.com’s disturbing report on the state of the ocean…
latimes.com has a five-part series, called Altered Oceans, on the various ways that we’re damaging the ocean. It’s got some disturbing photos, videos, and graphics. Seriously, you should check it out. Link Thanks, 70percent.org……