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Navigating the Waves
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
You Can Help Save Beached Whales
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 & Your Boat
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 Removal Start-Up Successfully Completes the World’s First Seaweed Baling and Sinking Test
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
How to Anchor Using Alternative Methods
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
Is Seaweed the Next Big Alternative to Meat?
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
Hurricane Lee Turns North Past Bermuda as it Aims for New England and Atlantic Canada
By AP News. Hurricane Lee began to spin away from the northern Caribbean on Wednesday as the Category 2 storm left big waves in its wake and aimed for New England and Atlantic Canada. The storm was located about 420 miles (675 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda. It had winds of… SEE MORE
Gray Whale Calf Count Increases from All-time Low, Positive Sign for the Population
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
Despite the Ongoing Drought, Water Levels Remain High on the Great Lakes
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
Interested In Saltwater Fly Fishing?
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 run on the Kuskokwim River – but not Many Fishermen
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
Sand Dredging is 'Sterilizing' Ocean Floor, UN Warns
By reuters.com. GENEVA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Around 6 billion tons of marine sand is being dug up each year in a growing practice that a U.N. agency said is unsustainable and can wipe out local marine life irreversibly. Sand is the most exploited natural resource in the world after… SEE MORE