Matt Walker – An odd-looking ancient fleshy fish continues to serve as a reminder of just how little we know about the natural world. In 1938, scientists discovered the coelacanth, a large primitive deep-dwelling fish that was supposed to have been long, long extinct. The fish provided an immediate link to our dim evolutionary past, [...]
Archive for June, 2011
BBC News - The owner of a Cornish marine company has been fined £10,000 for safety breaches which put a diver’s life at serious risk, a court heard. Kenneth Dunstan, owner of Mylor Marine Maintenance of Marlowe Bridge, pleaded guilty to breaching four diving safety regulations before Truro magistrates. The court heard Mr Dunstan from [...]
Dorset Echo – A missing diver was found alive and well shortly before a massive air and sea rescue operation was called off. The diver managed to defy the odds by swimming for four hours to shore after becoming separated from his boat. He stumbled ashore and made his way to the top of the [...]
News Herald – An aquatic robot swam along the side of a ship in a demonstration of new technology at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City on Thursday. It’s all part of the testing of underwater unmanned vehicles, or underwater robots, that will be incorporated into the Navy’s arsenal to fight enemies [...]
Angela Pownall - WA’s Ningaloo coast has been awarded World Heritage status by UNESCO at a meeting in Paris. The inscription gives international recognition and protection to the area after a seven-year campaign by the Federal and State governments to secure a successful nomination. UNESCO made its decision on the sixth day of its 2011 [...]
Dennis Taylor - When he was 12, future marine biologist Jon Hoech donned a scuba mask, stuck his face in the ocean, and got his first look at a school of fish, performing a majestic underwater choreography — something that only happens in the wild. Until now. “The other day, this school of sardines created [...]
One year after Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Collins family tries to hang onto 90-year-old oyster business
Posted: 06/30/2011 in all marine newsBrett Anderson – Nick Collins pulled a dredge up alongside his oyster boat, numbly resigned to finding his worst fears realized. “I knew there were going to be dead oysters, ” he said after emptying a load of shells onto a metal work table at the bow of the Broad & Tracy, the largest of [...]
Sarah Elks – The federal government is increasing its “reef tax” on Great Barrier Reef tourists, just as the clouds show signs of lifting for an industry enduring its bleakest period in nearly 25 years. While the impost might seem small — lifting the levy on a day-trip ticket to the reef by 50c to [...]
Sub spots dinner plates, sink, anchor near Admiralty Inlet wreckage
Posted: 06/30/2011 in all marine newsNicholas Johnson - Four days of mapping a 90-year-old shipwreck off Point Wilson yielded about a dozen hours of video footage and the same amount of 3-D scans. Joel Perry, vice president of expeditions for OceanGate, and his team of researchers made one three-hour dive each day in the submarine Antipodes to map the SS [...]
Gracie Bonds Staples - In honesty, holding one’s breath while underwater has been a common pool game for years. Competitive swimmers indulged in the practice as a training regime even before there were swimming pools. But with the mercury regularly surpassing the 90-degree mark and parents and children seeking ways to keep cool, this and [...]
