SIREN IS ON A HOLIDAY VACATION!

See you in the New Year!?

If you find this blog interesting, I'd like to hear from you! Let me know if there is any topic you would like me and my mermaid friends to cover!

Siren

DO YOU HAVE A FANTASY OF RIDING A WHALE ?

Riding a whale! This is a fantasy that has made it into books and films. But, assuming you could do away with any oxygen and breath on your own, what would a trip on a whale's back really be like? Whales can stay under the water a long time - and mostly they are feeding.

DORE - WHAT AN AMAZING ILLUSTRATION OF WAVES

Dore's art is made available to this blog from Dover Publishers.

WHALES - CAN YOU IDENTIFY THEM ?

WHALEROUTE MIGRATION - ALL WHALES MIGRATE!

Whales migrate and it's not just the Pacific grays, but also the Southern right whale, the Blues, and the Humpbacks. This site has some interesting details...

DECEMBER BEGINS PACIFIC OCEAN WHALE MIGRATION

CABRILLO NATIONAL PARK link here!

SURFING IN DECEMBER - ABOUT A YEAR AGO IN HAWAII - WAIMEA

Lot's of surfers head for warmer water - Australia - somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere.

OCEAN CITY VINTAGE POST CARD

GOT YOUR VINTAGE BATHING CAP READY?

The water is COLD OUT THERE!

FOLLOWING THE TREASURE MAP TO A REAL MERMAID !

WHAT CHEMICALS MAKE UP SALT WATER IN OUR OCEANS ?

ARE YOU REALLY GOOD WITH CHEMISTRY? Then Link to this WATER ENCYLOPEDIA SITE NOW and take a look!

PIRATE MAZE 1

THE LATEST ON THE SOMALIA PIRATES OPERATING IN THE INDIAN OCEAN!

FROM AUSTRALIAN NEWS

PiracyToday,

03. November 2010,

"At least 30 foreign vessels plus one barge are kept in Somali hands against the will of their owners, while at least 551 hostages or captives - including an elderly British yachting couple and the 5 new hostages from Somaliland - suffer to be released."

ATLANTIC OCEAN ALSO HAS SEA OF PLASTIC

BAD NEWS - THERE IS ALSO A SEA OF PLASTIC IN THE ATLANTIC. Link to the story now from CBS news...

"Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. The floating garbage - hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents - was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands."

MIGRATING MERMAIDS ARE WARM WATER DUGONGS

"Also known as sea cows, these herbivores enjoy lives as uneventful as their land-based bovine counterparts: Because they consume plants living in the intertidal zone, they have no need to dive to great depths in search of food so the waters they most inhabit are shallow and warm. And they are so large that they are not threatened by any other animals, except tiger sharks which only occasionally venture into shallow water..." Rachel Sullivan

Sailors may have seen sea cows and thought "mermaids," but only if they were hallucinating!

REYNARDS FANCIFUL FISH SCHOOL

US SANTA BARBARA STUDENT LOOSES LEG TO SHARK

Shark sightings reportedly are common off Surf Beach.

"Surfers like the area, especially on a day like today when the break is head high and smooth. But they say they see sharks," Clay Garland, head ranger at Jalama Beach, told the Times.

DOES THE SEA LIFE YOU TOUCH in A HANDS ON EXHIBIT DIE FROM TOO MUCH HUMAN CONTACT?

Ever pick up the same starfish a couple hundred other people did that day and wonder if it will live after so much human contact, being taken up out of the water and into the air?

Do aquariums and other exhibitions pick species that are hardy or out of danger of extinction, knowing that these specimins will die?

I wonder.... Siren

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM site is also a little virtual vacation... and you can click around until you get to the CHANGE FOR THE OCEANS VIDEO.... really beautiful!

STUCK FAR INLAND? A VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE LONG BEACH AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC

Click around this AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC SITE until you find the SHARK LAGOON... There's an online learning center link too!

SEA MONSTERS ON OLD MAPS OF THE SEA

OLD MAPS of the sea often show sea monsters. Today I wonder if these monsters were placed in unknown waters or about fear. Where they simply whales? Were there other species out there in the ancient oceans that are now extinct?

SEA MONSTER

DO YOU HAVE A FANTASY ABOUT BEING A MERMAID or A WHALE?

Do YOU have a fantasy about being a mermaid, merman, perhaps a sea creature like a whale or dolphin, or a starfish?

You can leave comments on this blog...

Would love to hear from YOU!

ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT.... DUBSTEP REMIX

Warning! Start the volume on this one down very low!

BY THE SEA a poem by CHRISTINA ROSETTI ( 1830-1894)

BY THE SEA

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea,
that drinking thirsteth still.
Sheer miracles of loveliness
Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed:
Anemones, salt, passionless,
Blow flower-like; just enough alive
To blow and multiply and thrive.
Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike,
Encrusted live things argus-eyed,
All fair alike,
yet all unlike,
Are born without a pang,
and die
Without a pang,
and so pass by.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF SALT WATER

We all know that eating too much salt can pickle our innards - or lead us to high blood pressure.

But what about inhaling a little salt water to keep asthma away?

Link to this site that has a lot of interesting information about the HEALTH BENEFITS of SALT WATER!

FISH LIPS?

ONCE I HEARD A KID ON THE SCHOOLYARD TELL ANOTHER KID THAT HE HAD FISH LIPS! THIS FISH SURE SEEMS TO HAVE THEM!

KILLER SHRIMP KILLING OFF OTHER SHRIMP IN BRITISH WATERS!

"It tends to aggressively pursue its prey, often leaving it dead but uneaten. It is known to have caused the extinction of several other species in other areas," the EPOCH TIMES reported.

Not only is it bully, it has few predators in this new habitat."


SIREN HERE: We're used to creatures eating other creatures because they gotta eat! But these shrimp kill and leave the dead uneaten! Yikes!

SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM ON LINE - OCEAN PLANET

Ocean Planet is a great on-line visit. SEA PEOPLE is one of the exhibits. As is Ocean in Peril. As we all go back to school - or remain life long learners - we want to know the latest on our precious oceans!

MASS EXTINCTION OF LIFE ON EARTH BEFORE - AND AGAIN?

FOSSIL EVIDENCE UNDER THE SEA !
Will it happen again in our lifetime?

"Some scientists have speculated that effects of humans - from hunting to CLIMATE CHANGE - are fueling another great mass extinction. A few go so far as to say we are entering a new geologic epoch, leaving the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch behind and entering the ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH, marked by major changes to global temperatures and ocean chemistry, increased sediment erosion, and changes in biology that range from altered flowering times to shifts in migration patterns of birds and mammals and potential die-offs of tiny organisms that support the entire marine food chain."

Click on the title above for breaking Yahoo news!

WIRED SCIENCE reports on MASSIVE ICE BREAK OFF GREENLAND

"100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick has calved off one of the largest ocean-bordering glaciers in Greenland. The Arctic hasn’t lost a chunk of ice that large since 1962." You can link to the whole article with a dramatic illustration by clicking on the title above!

I LOOKED AND THE WATER WAS ALL GONE!

I went to the public park closest to me the other day, and was shocked to see the pool, which had been so full of water the day before, completely drained. Due to budget cuts, the pool was only open for 6 weeks and in the afternoons for the summer. Still, there was a heat wave of 100 degree or more temperatures last week and you would have thought that every kid in the area who didn't have an apartment pool would be using it.

Guess I'll have to keep going to the heated pool at my closest YMCA instead! Siren

THE ELIMINATORS : BONE CRUNCHERS

WATER A POEM BY MARY OLIVER

WATER

"What is the vitality and necessity
of clean water?
Ask the man who is ill, who is lifting
his lips to the cup.

Ask the forest.

C Mary Oliver from her book "Evidence"

GRUNION ARE THE ONLY FISH TO JUMP OUT OF THE WATER TO LAY EGGS ON THE BEACH

"Along southern California's sandy beaches, from March through September, one of the most remarkable life cycles in the sea is completed; the California grunion comes ashore to spawn. ... California grunion are small silvery fish found only along the coast of southern California and northern Baja California. Most sportsmen would be unaware of their existence were it not for the unique spawning behavior of these fish. Unlike other fish, grunion come out of the water completely to lay their eggs in the wet sand of the beach."

We're linking to the California Department of Fish and Game...

CHANTAYS BAJA

CALCULATE HOW MANY CALORIES YOU BURN SWIMMING

EVERYDAY HEALTH here can let you know how many calories you are burning swimming in the pool... one hour... maybe 350?

COOL LINK ! CRYPTOMUNDO JAPANESE MERMAID LORE - WITH PICTURES

Swimming around the net today I wanted to learn more about MERMAIDS JAPANESE STYLE.

I found this site called CRYTOMUNDO...

"As a nation surrounded by the sea, it is perhaps no surprise that Japan too has its own long tradition of mermaids. These creatures are known to the Japanese as ningyo (人魚), literally “human fish,” as well as gyojin (魚人), “fish human,” and hangyo-jin, (半魚人）or “half-fish human.”

BP GULF OIL SPILL A KILLER - LINK TO DISCOVERY NEWS UPDATE

"McKinney said he believes that as a result, the oil spill may have increased the size of the so-called "dead zone" of oxygen-starved water off the coast of Louisiana and Texas. Much of the dead zone -- which is toxic to all marine life -- is caused by agricultural runoff from Midwest farms flowing out the Mississippi River."

NSIDC NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER

It's way too hot! Here in the Northern Hemisphere it is SUMMER and there are some overwhelming heat waves happening right now... But in the SOUTHERN hemisphere, and the SOUTHERN ocean, the ANTARCTIC it is winter, dark, and colder than ever. Here is a very scientific site that looks at snow and ice and weather...

"Arctic SEA ICE reflects sunlight, keeping the polar regions cool and moderating global climate. According to scientific measurements, Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically over at least the past thirty years, with the most extreme decline seen in the summer melt season."

The thought keeps me cool! Siren


The National Snow and Ice Data Center
Supporting Cryospheric Research Since 1976
449 UCB University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0449

SHIPWRECK NEWS HMS INVESTIGATOR found in WESTER ARTIC after 150 YEARS

"Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.
Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS INVESTIGATOR, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic.

"The ship is standing upright in very good condition. It's standing in about 11 meters (36 feet) of water," he said. "This is definitely of the utmost importance. This is the ship that sailed the last leg of the Northwest Passage."

LINK TO THIS BREAKING STORY - and the story about the route across the sea!

ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY ...

This is an old resort that got quite an upgrade in recent years... and a favorite of many east-coasters who hit the beach for a vacation. I don't think there is an old fashioned BOARD WALK (WALKWAY MADE OF BOARDS) anymore... and I love(d) those....

HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST LEARNED TO

SWIM ?
WHO TAUGHT YOU?
DID YOU LEARN TO BACK FLOAT FIRST?

PAGE OF MERMAIDS #2

We imagine being able to swim for miles without any special gear! Is this impossible or is there something to the AQUATIC APE THEORY?

MOLLUSKS

4th of JULY HOLIDAY UNITED STATES

We are officially into SUMMER here and the 4th of July is our most patriotic holiday. We the people of the United States need to think about our ecology and how we can as individuals have impact on a problem that's been getting worse for years, and is now even more horrible because of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico... WATER as we know travels all around the world, making this spill a WORLD WIDE ISSUE!

AMY LOWELL POETRY SEA SHELL

Sea Shell
by Amy Lowell

Sea Shell, Sea Shell,
Sing me a song, O Please!
A song of ships, and sailor men,
And parrots, and tropical trees,
Of islands lost in the Spanish Main
Which no man ever may find again,
Of fishes and corals under the waves,
And seahorses stabled in great green caves.
Sea Shell, Sea Shell,
Sing of the things you know so well.

SEA HORSES

BAILEY MATTHEWS SHELL MUSEUM focuses on GULF COAST SHELLS and MOLLUSKS

Here's the link to a SEA SHELL and MOLLUSK MUSEUM in Florida that focuses on the sea creatures of the GULF OF MEXICO.

Now we would suggest that if you go to a beach to clean up and you find some washed up shells that you ASK someone - a teacher or the director of the clean up effort what you should do if you find sea shells. The scientists may want to study these rather than let you take them home.

REMEMBER THAT A GOOD SEA SHELL COLLECTOR ALWAYS identifies not only the shell, but the location it was found and the date.

CLOWNFISH and STRAWBERRY ANEMONES

JAPAN STILL HUNTS WHALES and the INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION FAILS

JAPAN STILL HUNTS, as does ICELAND and NORWAY... and this breaking news story from Yahoo news explains....

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer

"The breakdown put diplomatic efforts on ice for at least a year, raised the possibility that South Korea might join the whaling nations and raised questions about the global drive to prevent the extinction of the most endangered whale species."

SEASHELLS ARE NOT AS COMMON AS THEY USED TO BE - MAYBE IT's TIME TO JUST SKETCH THEM!

SEASHELLS are disappearing off the shores and going to the beach even in the early morning will not guarantee that there are shells to be collected. That means that there are fewer shelled sea creatures living under our oceans.

One of the reasons for this is dredging or harvesting shells by scraping the bottom of the sea and hauling them aboard a ship.

Limit your collecting to what you personally find washed up on a beach. Or take a sketch book with you and draw what you see!

It's lovely to have a row of jars full of beach finds - sea glass and holed stones - scallops and muscles - the occasional univalve - lined up on a shelf. These can be full of memories of a wonderful day at the beach. But remember sea shells are part of the natural world that usually reclaims itself.

DO NOT PURCHASE SEA SHELLS FROM STORES !

MOORISH IDOL FISH and STAGHORN CORAL

AUDUBON INSTITUTE and Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program

Be a good mermaid and check out this site because it's about how we are trying to rescue the sea turtles that are dying - congested with oil.

"The Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program (LMMSTRP) is a volunteer organization based out of Audubon Aquarium of the America in New Orleans. Funded in part through the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Prescott Grant Program, this project rescues, cares for and relocates injured, ill or out-of-habitat marine mammals and sea turtles."

WHEREVER THERE ARE BEACHES some MARINE life is going to come ashore dying or dead. There are other organizations in which volunteers come to the aid of these creatures.

SEA TURTLES and ELKHORN CORAL

 

SEA TURTLES

are among the sea creatures who are being killed by the massive oil spill in the 

GULF OF MEXICO.

Did You Know THERE ARE NATURAL HOLES IN THE SEA BED THAT OIL FLOWS OUT OF?

OIL DOES EMERGE from natural holes in the sea bottom and that oil does pollute the water all the time. ON SOME BEACHES you find SEA TAR which is another oily substance. The amounts are usually minimal and not so destructive as the spill we are learning about now which is in the Gulf of Mexico.

JUNE 2010 : SUMMER READING : LIZ KESSLER THE TAIL OF EMILY WINDSNAP

"After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world."

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER as YOU SIT on A LOUNGE CHAIR grooming your tail!

YOU HAVE A LIBRARY CARD DON'T YOU?

Liz Kessler Ther Tail of Emily Windsnap
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2004

NEW YORK TIMES reports THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL DISASTER LARGER THAN THOUGHT

Link now to this New York Times article that explains that instead of 1000 barrels of oil escaping into the sea it's more like 5000.


Sea Turtles and other dead sea creatures are washing ashore.

MERMAID PAPERDOLL

Dover publications has a lot of great books and you can buy a paper doll with outfits that is a mermaid from them.

TELL THE SCIENTISTS HOW TO STOP THE OIL LEAK IN THE GULF

This is the best we can do! The scientists don't know how to cap the disastrous oil spill that you have probably seen on TV or the Internet every night. THIS IS THE LINK TO SUBMIT YOUR ORIGINAL IDEAS. Don't be shy!

Your "crazy" idea may just work!

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION on the OIL SPILL CLEAN UP

Here's the link to the National Wildlife Federation.... CAN YOU HELP CLEAN UP THE BEACHES and the wild life - the plants and animals that are being destroyed?

SUMMER IS COMING... ARE YOU GOING ON VACATION TO THE SEA?

If you are going on vacation, are you going to swim, surf, water ski, sail, go fishing or lay on a beach?

Are you going to a river, a lake, a waterfall, or an ocean?

You can use the Comments feature to let Siren know!

GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL KILLING MARINE LIFE

Dolphins and other sea life killed by oil in the Gulf of Mexico, after a undersea well sprung a leak, are washing ashore... that's according to the reading on line that I've been doing these last few days. It makes me very sad, because it seems like there is no way to easily stop millions and millions of gallons of oil from spewing...

I often wonder if all that oil is not the earth's lubricant... if we use it all up will it stop softening the blow of earthquakes or is that why there have also been so many very big earthquakes this year?

STARFISH - A GREAT VARIETY

IF YOU SEE STARFISH or any other creature in the TIDEPOOLS when the tide is out, leave them where they are. IT IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE TO PICK THEM UP AND LET THEM DRY OUT (DIE A SLOW DEATH) so you can collect them... INSTEAD WHY NOT TRY TO DRAW OR PAINT THEM and keep a record of the date, time, beach, and weather...

CORAL REEF ALLIANCE

Here's an alliance for those who care about preserving the coral reefs, home to so much sea life!

SAVE THE SEA

PHYSORG reports on NORTH ATLANTIC FISH POPULATIONS and SEA TEMPERATURE WARMING

PHYSORG has LOTS and LOTS of science articles about the sea and its in habitants!

NEW WHALE SANCTUARY is TOKELAU in THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Here's a link to a recent ABC news article and from the Associated Press about a NEW WHALE SACTUARY!

ILLUSTRATED FISH

THESE FISH LOOK LIKE THEY KNOW HOW TO HIDE in the flora and fauna of the sea. Which is your favorite?

NAME THE SEVEN SEAS ....

THE SEVEN SEAS are...

the Red Sea
the Mediterranean Sea
the Persian Gulf
the Black Sea
the Adriatic Sea
the Caspian Sea

NAME THE FOUR OCEANS....

THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD are

the Arctic Ocean
the Atlantic Ocean
the Indian Ocean
the Pacific Ocean

SEA BOOK OF THE MONTH : SEA WOLF BY JACK LONDON PUBLISHED 1904

We're using GOOGLE BOOKS TO READ THIS CLASSIC! LINK ABOVE!

BATHYNOMUS GIGANTEUS "BART" a 2.5 FOOT BUG!

"A 2.5-foot GIANT ISAPOD that was found attached to a submersible robot. These actually exist, deep under the sea, where they feast on whale carcasses. Another terrifying angle, after the jump."

SIRENS SAYS : I'd rather be tackled by a GIANT SQUID... this thing feeds on DEAD WHALES...

STRANGE SCIENCE SEAMONSTERS

Contrary to popular belief, the sailors of Columbus's day did not think they would sail right off the edge of the earth. They were, however, apprehensive about what they would find in their travels. Mistakes about marine life have ranged from inaccurate assumptions about the behavior of known species to fanciful depictions of animals that "might" exist. HERE IS A CATALOGUE OF SEA MONSTERS THEY THOUGHT THEY SAW - or MAYBE THEY DID!

REYNARDS FANCIFUL FISH 2

THE OCTOPUS as a SYMBOL

Did you know?

ONE OF THE COMMONEST SYMBOLS among Mediterranean civilizations, the octopus is related to the spiral and represents the unfolding of creation from the mystic centre. Along with the crab, it is sometimes associated with the astrological sign of Cancer.

THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS by David Fontana
C1993 Duncan Baird Publishers
Chronicle Books - San Francisco

POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN TOOT TOOT!

RENARDS FANCIFUL FISH

TSUNAMI EARTHQUAKES START THE SWELL

The earth experienced the earthquake in Haiti and the other day in Chili. Tsunami,huge swells of water that can hit the beaches and keep on going, are often in the aftermath of a earthquake at sea. By the time the waves hit Hawaii or Ventura County California or Japan the waves were small, and did little to no damage. Siren's linking to THE TSUNAMI SOCIETY so you can read some science.

IS THIS SPIKY FISH REAL or AN ARTISTS' DESIGN

SAILORS FOR THE SEA ORG

WHAT IS YOUR CARBON WAKE? These sailors care about the sea... a new organization! THERE IS NO "AWAY" in throwing away... all the plastic remains... floating.... SAILORS FOR THE SEA!

SAILORS FOR THE SEA ORG

JONAH and THE WHALE

Did you know?

THE WHALE INITIALLY SYMBOLIZED THE POWER OF THE COSMIC WATERS; only later did it acquire negative connotations, representing the jaws and belly of Hell, Jonah, when swallowed by the whale, emerges three days later, symbolizing rebirth through spiritual conversion. (page 89)


THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS by David Fontana
C1993 Duncan Baird Publishers
Chronicle Books - San Francisco

PLASTIKI is sailing soon for the garbage dump in the sea

which is sadly the size of a state! Plastiki is a 90 foot boat made of soda liter bottles and recycled materials and it will soon be on it's way to the garbage dump of plastics floating in the Pacific... You can listen to an interview about the journey from San Francisco to Sydney on a radio station from this site - KDKA.

(ONLY 20 % of all plastic bottles are RECYCLED!)

AROUND THE AMERICAS 25,000 mile sailing trip

February 18, 2010 – Valparaíso, Chile
By Herb McCormick

" A little over three weeks ago, the 64-foot cutter, Ocean Watch sailed abeam of Cape Horn and her crew set their powerful white spinnaker, rounding the epic headland with the big kite up and drawing. We all have some serious miles under our respective keels, but it’s safe to say it was one of the premier highlights of our sailing careers…" LINK NOW TO THE STORY - so very many ports - and an educational opportunity !

"Around the Americas is a 25,000 mile sailing circumnavigation of the American continents with the mission of inspiring, educating and engaging the citizens of the Americas to protect our fragile oceans." - AROUND THE AMERICAS

ELAINE MORGAN says AQUATIC APES ARE FOR REAL

There is a video of Elaine speaking on this link about the Aquatic Ape theory... oh this is just such an unusual subject! So LINK HERE!

JIM MOORE'S AQUATIC APE SITE - HIS RESEARCH !

WHAT IS THE AQUATIC APE THEORY? It's a theory that once human beings did evolve from the sea! This is a link to a lot of other links. Jim Moore has done a lot of work on this one! CHARLES DARWIN? It's fascinating!

SYLVIA EARLE MARINE BIOLOGIST

Biology is a LIFE SCIENCE. That means that women like Sylvia Earle (link to the article from WOMEN IN SCIENCE above!) studies the life of the ocean. Do you know how this is the same or different from being an OCEANOGRAPHER? Quote "In 1970 Sylvia Earle lead an all-female team of "Aquanauts" that lived for two weeks in an underwater habitat - Tektite II- off the Virgin Islands." 

DO YOU THINK THAT WHEN SYLVIA WAS A GIRL SHE WANTED TO BE A MERMAID?

CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE on CORAL

"What fishes like flowers! What stones like trees! The coral reefs are a golden girdle of dead and living cities, which dwarf their ages and beauty all the cities of man." Claire Booth Luce

EARTHQUAKE SENDS GIANT SQUID TO SAN DIEGO!

These GIANT HUMBOLDT SQUID are DAZED AND CONFUSED... A 4.0 earthquake at sea is suspected of sending them running - or swimming!
Click on the title above to get to the story!

“Squid, squid, squid, squid, squid.” she replied.

"Dozens of dazed Humboldt squid, which were roughly three- to four-feet long and weighed close to 40 pounds, were found flapping around on La Jolla Shores beach."

MICHELLE WAYLAND reporting.

WOMEN OCEANOGRAPHERS CHECK OUT THESE INTELLIGENT WOMEN!

EVER THINK ABOUT BEING A SCIENTIST WHO STUDIES THE OCEAN AS A CAREER! Now I'm warning you, you may have to learn to snorkle and then scuba dive! Or go way down under the oceans in submarines!

WHO KNOWS WHAT'S DOWN THERE DEEP IN THOSE TRENCHES?

Click on the title to get to the WOMEN OCEANOGRAPHERS SITE!

PAGE OF MERMAIDS #1

TELEOSTS

WHOZOO org has a nice array of fish... now those LUNG FISH can breath air through the water or with their heads out of water!

DONOVAN ATLANTIS

WAY DOWN BELOW THE OCEAN WHERE I WANT TO BE! HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SIREN!