Animal Stories from the Maritime World
Made by Neal Agarwal. The Deep Sea In 1960 oceanographer Jacques Piccard and USN Lt Don Walsh, piloted the 59ft 6in / 18.1m bathyscaphe Trieste to the floor of the Marianas Trench at 35,814ft / 10,916m deep (USN). Click on the above link for a fun and informative infographic showing life in the [...]
Marine biologists from the Zoological Society of London, a conservation charity working on the River Thames have reported more evidence of seahorses living in London’s iconic waterway. The sighting of a sixth individual animal in a two month period, compared with previous averages of just one or two annual sightings, underlines the importance of the [...]
The World Ocean Observatory (W2O) has launched six new partnership programmes to expand its message of conservation for global maritime resources. Founded 16 years ago with a diverse online platform to communicate the various messages it espouses W2O says the need for action is as urgent as ever. "Advocacy through information and communication is not [...]
To mark World Oceans Day on 8 June, Commonwealth Head of Oceans and Natural Resources Dr Nicholas Hardman-Mountford shares how his organisation’s Blue Charter is a beacon of hope for the future of ocean governance. In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, 11,000 km beneath the sea surface, lies the deepest known point in the [...]
Oysters are being reintroduced to the River Humber in a project being supervised by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the University of Hull. The Humber Aquaculture Partnership is an exciting new collaboration between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the University of Hull. Funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, this project will create the first aquaculture [...]
In the film below Alex Goad of Reef Design Lab, from Melbourne Australia introduces in more detail the MARS - Modular Artificial Reef Structure, and explains how they have set up reefs which are artifical and man-made out of 3-D printed ceramic moulds, filled and reinforced with marine concrete and steel bars and which can [...]
The surge of toxic plastics in our ocean environment means it's time to ban them from our wardrobe. It's time to stop wearing fleece and polyester garments which shed huge amounts of microplastics into our environment every time they go through a washing machine. This video interviews one of Plymouth University's Professors of Marine Biology, [...]
Incredible footage from BBC Earth's The Hunt with Sir David Attenborough describing the life of flying fish as they take to the air and glide hundreds of metres, using their extended pectoral fins as wings on a breeze and their tails to drive them out of the water, in their bid to escape predators (in [...]
This is surely the best version of Dolphins - which Folk legend Fred Neil wrote and recorded in 1966 [/fusion_youtube] The song was released as a single and also on Neil's second eponymous album in 1967, along with Everybody's Talkin' which was made into a global hit by Harry Nilsson in 1970 [...]
