Plato once said “the sea cures all ailments of man.” Covering about 71% of Earth’s surface, the ocean is a crucial part of this world and the life inhabiting it. Despite this, the world’s oceans remain largely a mystery to us. However, as we learn more and more about it with each passing day, the…
Sharknado? Nope, rather Shark-cano, this time in real life! That’s right folks, sharks have been discovered swimming in the highly acidic and hot waters of an active underwater volcano. Rather, three species of sharks. Sharknado fans, rejoice. A hammerhead shark, silky shark, and the rarely seen sleepy shark were recently captured in a video featured below,…
Sharks don’t like to be filmed. So if it’s not for scientific reasons, don’t try to film a shark underwater. It will come to bite you later–no pun intended. We saw how the REMUS SharkCam, a highly developed navigational and filming instrument, got severely beat up in 2013. “But the hunter soon became the…
Have you heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The Pacific Garbage Patch, AKA the ‘trash vortex’ is a large accumulation of marine debris found in the North Pacific ocean. It is actually a combination of the Western Garbage Patch and the Eastern Garbage Patch, where it spans from Japanese to North America’s coasts. Most…
Recent news: on July 4, Canada Safeway has announced that by 2015, it plans to only sell sustainably-farmed seafood. I must confess that the news, when I first heard it, made me feel something like this: Safeway’s promise puts it in the company of many other major supermarket chains that have committed to selling nothing…