Watching Water Worldwide.

Marine Conservation Society: about mcs: 88% of Europe’s ﬁsh stocks are overﬁshed or depleted. Once common ﬁsh such as skate and cod are now rare. MCS works to reduce the overfishing which is devastating the life in our seas, and promotes sustainable seafood alternatives.

Who Done it? Natalie Wood case reopens.

2011-11-29T01:00:00.000-08:00

Aboard the Splendour 30 years ago today.
A thirty year old Hollywood murder puts this boat on the map. The 67 ft. Splendour where Natalie Wood was last seen with Christopher Walken and Robert Wagner while cruising with with Capt. Dennis Davern. Davern has recently come forward with a new statement.

What's your story?

2011-11-27T12:45:00.000-08:00

Proton: The boat is a Corsair F-27 trimaran. I'm a physicist. A proton is made up of 3 quarks: Two "up" quarks and a "down" quark. You should ask people for the names of their dinghies if they have them. I like to see interesting dinghy-name/boat-name combinations. For example, mine is called"electron". Toby Castellarin has a boat named"Rum and Tonic"and his dinghy is named "Twist of Lime". One could go on for a long time.

2011-11-24T12:53:00.001-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all you wild things out there. There is always so much to be grateful for!

Robots Attempting Longest Ever Unmanned Sailing Voyage

2011-11-21T17:12:00.000-08:00

Science News: BBC News reported last Friday that the four robots, which were created by an American company called Liquid Robotics, departed from the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco on November 17. At first they will travel together before pairing off into groups of two, one of which will head to Australia and the other embarking en route to Japan in order to support a Mariana Trench dive.

“During their 300-day journey, the surfboard-sized Wave Gliders… will collect vast amounts of real-time data on ocean conditions and beam it to the cloud where it will be made available free to researchers worldwide,” Todd Woody of Forbes said in an article Friday.

AmericasCup's Channel - YouTube

2011-11-19T23:29:00.000-08:00

AmericasCup's Channel - YouTube
Watch Live Racing from San Diego - Fleet Race Championship. Multi Camera Experience by AmericasCup streaming live

Oh boating industry...you had me at ahoy.

2011-11-10T07:28:00.000-08:00

Stephen Colbert Explains Why The Wealthy Need Yachts To Flee Hordes Of The Poor: And Colbert agrees: He couldn’t imagine fleeing the collapse of society if his boat doesn’t have an onboard infinity pool. The ad continues: “If you ever get discouraged and think nobody in the world cares about you and your dreams, trust me, the boating industry does.”

Ninth foot washes up in Canada, ok that's creepy.

2011-11-09T17:30:00.000-08:00

— with a twist - World news - Americas - msnbc.com

Get Paid To Recycle

2011-10-14T13:03:00.000-07:00

Get Paid To Recycle: Rewards can be used at a whole host of stores such as Borders, Bed Bath & Beyond, Whole Foods, Starbucks and 250 other national and local stores. In tests, the amount recycled per household lept from 5lbs per week to 35lbs. Let’s hope they just weren’t eating more

Sharks less aggressive while listening to AC/DC

2011-10-13T01:30:00.000-07:00

I knew it!!: There’s no telling what might happen if you play Taylor Swift of Justin Bieber for a great white shark.

You might not want to find out.

But if you crank up AC/DC, you’ll likely notice your great white friend getting a little more docile.

Anglers Decreasing??

2011-10-09T14:42:00.000-07:00

The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK: Fishermen are known to make excuses and so it was with why they did not go fishing. Thirty-one percent said it was too hot or cold to go fishing. Followed by 30 percent who said there was not enough vacation time and 25 percent blamed it on too much time spent at work. Spending time with the family was cited by 23 percent. Another 19 percent claimed they did not have the right gear and 17 percent said there was no one to go with. Being honest, I can say I have used some of these myself before.

The Whale

2011-09-23T11:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.thewhalemovie.com/

Film Review - The Hollywood Reporter: The center of attention here is Luna, a young orca who, at age two, for some reason became separated from his large family, “like a child in a supermarket,” and was stranded in Nootka Sound, an ultra-scenic area more than halfway up the west coast of Vancouver Island. Backed up by images of the black-and-white “killer whale” cavorting, showing off and constantly begging for attention, Reynolds unassumingly informs that Orcas, who have about the same life spans as humans, are very social beings that spend their whole lives in extended family groups. In other words, unless he can somehow rejoin his pod, Luna will have to make do with human contact.

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2011-09-13T00:00:00-07:00

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PITCH2011 Regatta - Kelly O'Neill Cup

2011-09-08T23:34:00.000-07:00

PITCH2011 Regatta
Medevac to Bellingham, I'm waiting for news from the ICU as a friend from the islands is critical condition. Meanwhile...I always wanted to be Kelly O'Neal. I like dogs, photography and boats...so in the spirit of Kelly I got out there on the dinghy with the dog just like she did...but for my custom duct-taped telephoto mount and did one for the 'ol bucket list - life is short.

Apocalypse Bow-Wow

2011-08-17T12:43:00.000-07:00

Cute Overload: "As the pilot steered us upriver, I reviewed Colonel Kats’ file. The Army had sent their finest dogs to chase him, but nothing had come back but rumors — whispers of a cult deep in the jungle, where dogs and mice alike worshipped Kats like a god."

Roman ship had on-board fish tank

2011-08-15T12:34:00.000-07:00

Roman ship had on-board fish tank : Nature News: "A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. Italian researchers now suggest that the pipe was part of an ingenious pumping system, designed to feed on-board fish tanks with a continuous supply of oxygenated water. Their analysis has been published"

We do transfer farmed salmon from the pens to the processor with large oxygenated tanks in the Puget Sound. The fish are still alive when they reach the plant this way!

New York Harbor

2011-07-22T13:11:00.000-07:00

New York Harbor

'We don't know who he is, but we can know' | Crime | Tacoma News

2011-07-12T01:05:00.000-07:00

BARNACLE BILL: "Twenty nine years later, a local oceanographer hopes to solve a maritime mystery spanning three states and thousands of miles of the Pacific."

A Swedish American in Swedish

2011-07-08T12:39:00.000-07:00

Swedish Sailing and Insanity: "The sea was boiling. I never understood what that meant until this weekend. All of those literary descriptions meant nothing to me. Boiling? I thought it was just windy and wave-y. I was wrong. The rain was so powerful that the water falling from the skies was pushing the waves back down from the depths from which they originated. It was bubbling, but there were no whitecaps. The rain was too strong. Every description of a boiling sea that I have ever read suddenly made sense to me. In case you were wondering, boiling is an apt description. Just trust me."

Right whales return to New Zealand after 100 years

2011-06-27T10:51:00.000-07:00

"More than a hundred years after it was hunted to local extinction, the playful, frolicking right whale is finally finding its way back to its ancestral calving grounds in New Zealand.
CAPTION
NOAA

It's believed that once more than 30,000 right whales spent each winter in New Zealand's protected bays giving birth and raising their young."

Princess Cruise Bridgecams

2011-06-13T13:52:00.000-07:00

Any view from a Princess Cruise ship is a good view, right?

What's in a name?

2011-06-07T10:14:00.000-07:00

Titanic Sinking | Titanic 2: "A boat named “Titanic 2” has lived up to its name by sinking on its maiden voyage in an English harbor, but there were no icebergs in sight."

The World's First Amphibious Ice Cream Van

2011-06-03T01:34:00.000-07:00

Going Where no ice cream truck has gone before.

Stephen Colbert: Not the Greatest Sailor in the World

2011-05-31T15:13:00.000-07:00

Stephen Colbert: Not the Greatest Sailor in the World: "Did sailing perhaps ignite his sub-meteoric rise on television, or was adding 'sailor' to his resume simply a ploy to impress some cable executive who never participated in organized sports?"

Oracle designs a wing for all of us.

2011-04-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

Several America’s Cup team members took the time to develop and test a wingsail that works with an Opti."

Blind Sailing.

2011-04-18T16:09:00.000-07:00

A blind man can ski and sail all by himself: "From the sea... to the slopes... Ed Gallagher is doing it all-blind!

He thought he would never sail again, until he came up with a remote guidance system.

Genoa, named after Ed's guide dog, is a camera mounted inside these glasses. It's hooked up to a computer that Ed carries with him. It has a microphone and ear piece...allowing Ed to use internet video call...and call someone to talk him through the process."