VIA – YAHOO NEWS YAHOO!7 NEWSJanuary 22, 2014, 10:42 am A New Zealand fisherman has been left baffled after reeling in a completely see-through creature just off the North Island’s coast. Stewart Fraser was fishing around 70km off the Karikari Peninsula with his two sons when he spotted what he though was a translucent … Continue reading Bizarre see-through fish plucked from New Zealand waters – #fishing #nature
VIA – CBS A Scottish university believes there is a potential treatment for breast cancer that can be derived from shark blood antibodies. The University of Aberdeen received more than $320,000 from the U.K. nonprofit Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) to study “shark IgNAR antibodies.” The three-year study will focus on whether the … Continue reading Shark blood antibodies may hold potential treatment for breast cancer
VIA – YAHOO/ABC NEWS ABCUpdated September 24, 2013, 8:54 am The Kite-Surfing Association of WA says the death of a man at Cottesloe Beach on Sunday afternoon appears to have been caused by a freak sequence of events. Marc Sprod, 50, was coming ashore when he apparently tripped near the water’s edge and was launched … Continue reading Kite-surfer dies in freak accident at WA’s Cottesloe Beach #Kite
VIA – TRUE ACTIVIST September 13, 2013 | Filed under: Environment,News | Posted by: Amanda Froelich Image Credit / boyanslat.com By: Amanda Froelich, True Activist. With millions of tons of garbage dumped into the oceans annually and repeat incidence of oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, it’s the Ocean which has taken the … Continue reading Ingenious 19-year-old Develops Plan to Clean up Oceans in 5 Years #Environment
VIA – FIELD & STREAM By Ben Romans Marco Liebenow, an German angler fishing ocean waters off Norway, has reportedly caught a 513-pound Atlantic halibut—a fish heavy enough to not only best the International Game Fish Association’s (IGFA) current world record for Atlantic halibut by 94 pounds, it could also potentially claim the title for … Continue reading Big Fish Alert: Potential World Record, 513-Pound Atlantic Halibut Caught in Norway #Fishing #Photography
VIA – LA TIMES Opah, also called moonfish, were one of nine fish species analyzed in a new study that looked at how mercury gets into open-ocean fish and why the levels vary with depth. (C. Anela Choy / University of Hawaii / August 27, 2013) By Geoffrey Mohan August 28, 2013, 6:15 … Continue reading Mercury fingerprint of Pacific fish points to Asia coal power plants #Fishing #SurfReport
Fing incredible: http://www.ted.com In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes — a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) — and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try … Continue reading INCREDIBLE VIDEO: How I held my breath for 17 min #SurfReport #Magic #TedTalks
VIA – RAW STORY By Agence France-Presse Thursday, March 7, 2013 15:36 EST A 4.5 tonne sperm whale that washed ashore in southern Spain died from ingesting large amounts of plastic sheets used in greenhouses on farms in the region, a scientist said Thursday. The whale, which came ashore last year on a beach … Continue reading Beached sperm whale in Spain dies after eating large amounts of plastic
VIA – MSNBC Humpback whales are making quite a splash in Santa Cruz, Calif. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy By Miguel Almaguer Humpback whales are making quite a splash in Santa Cruz, Calif. In the chilly waters, not far off the coast, a pair of the 40-ton giants … Continue reading VIDEO: Humpback whales are making quite a splash in Santa Cruz, Calif