The core premise of my research has been the same since my first article on the "politics of shark attacks" in 2012:

1) The shark is a fish, not a movie monster
2) The human is a land animal, not neutral actor in the ocean
3) The ocean/beach is the wild, not a remote paradise

#sharks #sharkattack

Face to Face With a Humpback #Whale - Underwater #photography Rachel Moore. #HumpbackWhale #SweetGirl

Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/face-to-face...

Cristina Zenato works in the wild with sharks, where she has built a special relationship with a local shiver of Caribbean Reef sharks. Many recognize her and approach her touch. She uses this connection to remove hooks from their mouths.

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💦☔️💦 Wed, Apr 22

PNW rains have returned, hopefully soon orcas do too as it appeared the group was possibly heading out yesterday. Meanwhile, we revel in the grays who remain: Little Patch & Stardust plus others were seen this week.

📸 Orca spyhops as the sun settles in. By Jason Luc 4/20.

#psws

Young, humpback whale launching itself into the sky: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

A Paletail Damsel (Pomacentrus trichrourus) swimming just above a Day Octopus (Octopus cyanea). The octopus is clinging to the side of a rock and is leaning over and above the sea floor, so it looks as if the octopus is leaning back to dodge the fish. The octopus's arms are going in different directions, with some looking back. The octopus has its a very bumpy and wrinkly skin on its head and mantle. It is a mix of white and dark red. The dish is black with a white tail.

"Hey, ever heard of a thing called personal space?"

🐙📷davidbeo (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Sea lion photo by Jeff Hester via The Ocean Agency.

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Forest Service Cuts Would Devastate Years Of Hawaiʻi Research, Experts Warn The Forest Service is looking to close its Big Island labs — the only ones of their kind, researchers say, that help protect the Pacific's unique tropical forests.

The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.

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Snorkeling Tour | Icacos & Palomino 🐠
"Meet Gerald — the dolphin who’s been pulling up on us since December here in Icacos, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

He doesn’t show up every day… but when he does, he stays 🤯
Swimming with us, following us around, just vibing like part of the crew."

Two marine operations crew members retrieve an autonomous robot. The crew are wearing white hard hats and orange life vests. They are holding orange sticks and guiding a robot suspended from a white metal crane by an orange rope. The robot has a cylindrical plastic housing with an orange tail cone, a yellow midsection, an orange nose cone, and two paddle-shaped cameras. On the ship’s gray metal deck is a black cart. In the background is blue ocean with cloudy blue sky on the horizon.

A scientist looks into a microscope in the lab aboard a research ship. They are wearing purple gloves and are seated in front of a counter, adjusting samples under the microscope. In the background are black pipes and laboratory equipment.

A marine operations crew member wearing a white hard hat and orange life vest operates a crane on the deck of a research ship. In the background is maritime equipment with blue ocean and cloudy blue sky on the horizon.

Two researchers look at data on a laptop computer. In the foreground is a desk with papers, a clipboard, and an iPhone. In the background are the counters of a laboratory on a research ship.

Did you catch our recent expedition logs? 🚢🔬🌊⁠
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Working together at sea and on shore was instrumental as the Carbon Flux Ecology Team successfully coordinated a fleet of MBARI technologies to study the ocean’s role in regulating carbon. Go behind the scenes: www.mbari.org/expedition/c...

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Scientists thrilled as an elusive Greenland shark washes up in Ireland | CBC When Dublin scientist Emma Murphy got word that a dead Greenland shark had washed up on the shores of northwestern Ireland, she was gobsmacked. Not only are the massive and ancient ocean dwellers not...

"They are likely far more widespread than we know," [Dean Grubbs] said. "There just aren’t people sampling the depths to frequently see them."

GREENLAND SHARKS 🦈 GREENLAND SHARKS 🦈

🌱 🌸 🌤️ Sun, Apr 19
We awake to another lovely PNW day w/whales & sunshine, blossoms & buds unfurling; a special time of year.
Yesterday, orcas & plethora of grays. Minkes & a humpback reported too, but no photo confirmation for them.

📷 Another view of T46B2B Takaya by Elise Lipinski 4/10.

#psws

A close up of Octopoteuthis deletron swimming in a strange pose. It facing away from the camera, with its arms are raised up and back over its mantle, making a sideways U shape. Its fins are are wrapped around its mantle. You can clear see the zigzag row of little white hooks on its arms and the white photophores on the tips of its arms. The photophores have been curved. The squid is orange.

A Schoolmaster Armhook Squid (Berryteuthis magister) swimming above the sea floor with its limbs swung back. There is some ink in the water as the squid recently inked. All eight arms and its two tentacles are swung back. Its arms have two rows of hooks that are visible, with the two tentacle having no hooks. The squid's beak if clearly visible as none of its limbs are blocking it. It has a large mantle with two large fins on the end half of the mantle. The squid has an orange colour with white on the underside. The sea floor is rocky with lots of round rocks, and it is about 65 m below the surface.

A close up of a warty squid's (Onykia robsoni) hooks. The image covers about 3.5 cm. Its a bunch of hooks coming out of a squid's limb. They seem to have a fleshy sheath. The arm is white and orange.

The hooks on the tentacle club of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). There are several hooks in two rows poking out of fleshy sheaths. These hooks can rotate and each row flanked by a row of tiny, marginal suckers. The arm is a mix of off white and desaturated slightly purplish red

Many squid species have hooks on their arms, tentacles or both. These hooks are used to help grab and hold onto their prey. I definitely wouldn't want to be on the business end of one of these squid!

What's even more amazing is this adaptation shows up in several different squid families!

Sussex trawling ban: new protections for marine habitats The ban around Beachy Head East MCZ brings new protections to marine life.

This is great news! Bottom trawlers drag their nets along the ocean floor, indiscriminately disrupting or destroying anything in their path.
It's so important to protect vulnerable habitats like coral reefs from this practice. 🪸🐠

A marine biologist connecting coastlines, classrooms, and conservation (with Dawn Murray) YouTube video by Ocean Wings Podcast

Ocean Wings Podcast: Professor Dawn Murray examines how ocean science translates into education, policy, and real-world action. #mantarays #mantarayadvocateshawaii #hawaii #endangered #oceans

MSC’s ‘blue tick’ scheme creates illusion of ethically sourced fish, study claims Sustainability certification by Marine Stewardship Council may be obscuring labour abuses in seafood supply chains, say researchers

#banfactorytrawlers #protectouroceans #endangered #overfising

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Scotland Released 11 Beavers Into a Dead River — What They Did With Mud and Sticks Was Unbelievable YouTube video by Daily Discoveries

wow, tech bro's can do something to actually HELP the planet - glad i'm sitting down! Watch the 'scottish beaver' video on YT for another amazing example of this:

A tiny, slightly concerned Snake Eel peeks out from the sand, hoping that the big, noisy flashy thing goes away soon.

#marinelife #macrophotography #underwatercreatures #thailandscubadiving

I want to pull an E.T. and let them all loose!

there is an old Richard Jeni bit where he talks about going to the seafood restaurant and seeing all the crabs and lobsters in the front tank looking like prisoners and 'can someone call the governor? Help!?' - I think of that every time I go to a nearby store that has tanks like that - so sad :(

Curious tuna crabs in the Pacific show their inquisitive side as they investigate a diver. Nature’s wonders never cease to amaze us.

NEW PAPER: Mesothermic fishes face high fuel demands & overheating risk in warming oceans - found scaling imbalance betwn heat prodn & loss esp. affecting large mesothermic fishes in warm waters
led by @tcddublin.bsky.social Nick Payne et al. @thembauk.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The reported likelihood of Amoc collapse has increased from 5% to over 50%. 😬
Again and again, we need to brace ourselves for some of the worst-case scenarios and use our anxiety to drive action.

Squid strikes a pose 👀🦑🍑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #spanishhogfish #cephalopodsofcoralcity #strikeapose

Opinion: Kelp forests off coast are disappearing. Who’s paying attention? Kelp forests stabilize coastlines and help regulate carbon in the ocean.

📢 We need attention on California's disappearing kelp forests, says @ucsandiego.bsky.social bioengineering PhD candidate Katherine O'Connor. Inspired by Scripps PhD candidate Mohammad Sedarat's work tracking these trends, she shares why this is important for @sandiegouniontribune.com. ⤵️

Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park | Conservation International Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.

A Two-toned Pygmy Squid (Idiosepius pygmaeus) grappling a transparent shrimp. The shrimp is facing towards the camera. The squid is covered in orange chromatophores, and while not obvious from the photo, it is very small. The shrimp has a clear transparent body and translucent arms. It is perpendicular to the camera, and the squid is holding the shrimp's head closest to its beak. There are rich purple sea pens making up the background.

It's really impressive how pygmy squids can take down shrimps that are almost big as they are (which isn't much, this species only grows to a mantle length of 20 mm!)

🦑📷Andy (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Bottom sea trawlers snaring many endangered species: UBC study Researchers say bottom trawling is taking a serious toll on marine ecosystems and recommend the world rethink this practice.

When we talk about fisheries, it’s our last wild food source that we consume on the regular. And this is not farming. It is going out into the wilderness and bulldozing wildlife.

vancouversun.com/news/bottom-...

@projectseahorse.bsky.social