Posts Tagged Under ‘Oceans’

Squid Blog

The colossal squid in New Zealand is being defrosted and studied right now, and the lab set up a blog:

http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/

While this squid is most fascinating, I can’t help but agree with this BBC dude that the catching of really weird deep-sea animals is a bad sign: it means fisherman are going further and further into the ocean to satisfy our ravenous fish-eating appetites. And I know I will be pissed if tuna steaks cease to exist.

Whales

Two stories:

1. A whale swam so far up the Amazon River that he gets to take a boat back to the ocean.

2. Another whale got trapped in fishing lines, but freed itself and bailed. I got caught in that stuff scuba diving one time and it took me a long time to get out, even with my human brain.

If whales are riding in boats and solving complex logic problems, we can’t be far off from talking whales who establish their own civilization. Who knows what they’ll say and do? Not me, but it promises to exceed everything, ever, in awesomeness.

Tuna - Too Good

The Washington Post ran this thought-provoking article about the dearth of bluefin tuna in the sea. I’m not cool with that, because tuna is awesome.

As much as I love tuna sushi, I’ll think twice about ordering it now. I like my oceans healthy and full of awesome fish, so the whales have somebody to eat and intimidate.