Author: parambhatia51

Navigating the Waves

Coastal News

9/18/2023 - By reasonstobecheerful.world. Surf therapy is being embraced — from the US Navy to the British health service — as a surprisingly effective treatment for depression, anxiety and trauma. The Great Recovery is a series examining how a surge in innovation, outreach, access and attention to equity is improving our mental… SEE MORE

Surfing

Beached Sperm Whales Norfolk by WikkiCommons.

You Can Help Save Beached Whales

9/17/2023 - By oceangrafixblog.wordpress.com About 2,000 dolphins and whales beach themselves each year, mostly resulting in death. But there is a lot you can do to help save them if you are a mariner. Locations and causes of beaching Whale beachings happen year-round, almost anywhere, and sometimes they can be very dramatic. Just a… SEE MORE

Carbon monoxide detector 1 2018-03-01.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Carbon Monoxide & Your Boat

9/16/2023 - By boatus.org What You Can't See, Can Harm You. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is essentially undetectable by human senses. It is produced when an engine that uses a carbon-based fuel like gasoline is running. Carbon monoxide is a component of exhaust gases -… SEE MORE

Carbon Monoxide

Proposed marine carbon dioxide removal by Wikkicommons.

Carbon Removal Start-Up Successfully Completes the World’s First Seaweed Baling and Sinking Test

9/15/2023 - By ecomagazine.com Seafields, a carbon removal company based in the UK, has shared details of the world’s first seaweed biomass sinking trials for carbon removal to test the impact on the surrounding environment. This is the world’s first sinking test of its kind, and the first test to assess environmental… SEE MORE

climate change

How to Anchor Using Alternative Methods

9/14/2023 - By boatingmag.com My brother-in-law likes to fish offshore reefs, and the process once entailed navigating to a mark, dropping a float, and idling upwind or up-current to drop the anchor in hopes the set would drop us back to the float. This laborious process sometimes took three to four tries to set… SEE MORE

Green seaweed Turimetta south, Caulerpa filiformis by Wikkicommons

Is Seaweed the Next Big Alternative to Meat?

9/13/2023 - By smithsonianmag.com From kelp burgers to bacon of the sea, sustainable food entrepreneurs are innovating to charm hungry omnivores When vertebrates first heaved themselves out of the sea some 390 million years ago, terrestrial life was good: the atmosphere was rich with oxygen, and competition for food was virtually nonexistent.… SEE MORE

seaweed

Gray whale mother and her calf on their northbound migration.

Gray Whale Calf Count Increases from All-time Low, Positive Sign for the Population

9/12/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. Almost twice as many gray whale calves swam north with their mothers to their Arctic feeding grounds this spring compared to last year, according to a new count completed by NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center. The results suggest that the eastern North Pacific population of gray whales that migrate… SEE MORE

Gray Whales

Despite the Ongoing Drought, Water Levels Remain High on the Great Lakes

9/11/2023 - By greatlakesscuttlebutt.com. The ongoing drought that has plagued Wisconsin over the last couple of months has had little to no impact on the water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior remain well above… SEE MORE

Lake Michigan

Saltwater Fly Fishing by Wallpaperuse.com

Interested In Saltwater Fly Fishing?

9/10/2023 - By takemefishing.org. Many people new to recreational angling wonder about fly fishing, which is one component of the whole sportfishing pie, and assume that this activity is just associated with using insect imitations and fishing for freshwater trout. But what about saltwater fly fishing? Can you fly fish in saltwater?… SEE MORE

Big coho by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Big Coho run on the Kuskokwim River – but not Many Fishermen

9/9/2023 - By nationalfisherman.com. Following the unsuccessful chinook and chum salmon runs, a multitude of coho salmon have made their way to the Kuskokwim River. However, there is no one available to harvest them, except for a lone commercial fisherman who possesses the required permits to operate as a catcher-processor. The once-lucrative… SEE MORE

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