THANKSGIVING PLEDGE TO RECYCLE AND REUSE

 

OLD DIVING HELMET

 

SALMON

 

SALMON and RIVERENE FISH - DAM DEMOLITIONS LEADS TO NATURAL HABITATS

LA TIMES : LARGE DAMS TO BE DEMOLISH - A VICTORY FOR FISH 

Excerpt: If it goes forward, the deal would revive plants to remove four massive hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River, emptying giant reservoirs and reopening potential fish habitation that's been blocked for more than a century.  The massive project would be at the vanguard of a trend toward dam demotions in the U.S. as the structures age and become less economically viable amid growing environmental concerns about the health of native fish.

JAMES DYSON AWARD INTERNATIONAL WINNERS INCLUDE OCEAN and SEA LIFE SAVVY INVENTORS ! VERY INTERESTING!

JAMES DYSON AWARDS 2020 - official site 

Renewable Energy, ecological solutions...

Go this site and follow the links.  You will find: 

CLOUD OF SEA  - A way to remove plastic microparticles.

Excerpt: Cloud of Sea is a product designed to be hooked onto all boats using ropes.  The product contains an internal rotating filter that can capture micro-plastics in the water.  The system is composed of 4 parts...

WAP = WHALE AIR PONTOON = A way of saving stranded pilot whales

Excerpt: Pilot whales fall to the side during the stranding. When the tide comes in, their breathing hole is under water, they can't breathe and drown after only 15 minutes.  WAP is placed on both sides of the whale, the mat is rolled out on the belly side and the pontoon on the back side is inflated...

Find other inventions that serve the sea, the sea life, water ecology, and refrigeration. 

SHARKS

 

AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST MASS STRANDING - PILOT WHALES - 500 ESTIMATE OFF TASMANIA

This happened several weeks ago.  Rescuers tried to save the pilot whales. The bodies of dead whales present a problem for the harbor. 

Excerpt: "Unfortunately, they do have a very strong social system, and these animals are very closely bonded.  And that's why we have seen so many in this case unfortunately end up in this situation," Pirotta said. 

And even when a whale is freed, its fate remains in jeopardy.

"They are wanting to return back to the pod. They might hear the acoustics of the vocalizations of the sounds that the others are making, or they're just disoriented and in this case extremely stressed and just probably so fatigued that they in some cases don't know where they are," she said.

FIN WHALES MAY BE THE PARROTS OF THE OCEAN : PICK UP AND BRING BACK NEW SONGS IN MIGRATION

INDEPENDENT : FIN WHALES PICK UP NEW SONGS AS THEY MIGRATE 

The Blue Whale is the largest animal on earth. The Fin Whale is second largest.  Go to this interesting link to see a wonderful picture of a fin whale and read about how these whales pick up new songs and return with them.  When a whale with a new song shows up, it may indicate that they have traveled far or be an individual new to the area.  

Siren

HYDROPHONE CATCHES BLUE WHALES SWITCHING FROM NIGHT SINGING TO DAY SINGING

SCIENCE DAILY : BLUE WHALES SWITCH NIGHT SINGING TO DAY 

Excerpt: By focusing on the whale song wavelengths in the hydrophone data, the researchers noticed a distinct change over several months.  Through the summers, the whale arias grew louder and were sung mostly at nighttime.  Over the five years of data, the whale chorus was loudest around October and November, and singing happened more at nighttime. Following each annual peak in song activity, as the whales began to depart for warmer waters, singing because more of a daytime activity.

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This is a very exciting discovery about our world's largest living creatures.

HELLO FROM SIREN

I'm just posting a HELLO today, to my old and new readers. HELLO, H E L L O, HELLO!

To be honest, I've felt like I should just keep my mermaid tale on and go swimming around the Internet today, but under some warm covers. I'm searching for stories you will be excited by, stories about the sea, sailing, surfing, fishing.  Stories about the creatures of the shoreline and the deep.

Siren

ARISE