FANCY FISH

QUITE THE LADY

 

THE UNDERSEA SCULPTURE OS JASON deCLAIRES TAYLOR

DAILY MAIL - JASON DECLAIRES TAYLOR _ UNDERSEA SCULPTURE 

This is such an unusual and amazing sculpture garden, in a protected water space.  The Museum of Underwater Sculpture Ayia Napa.

Excerpts: The Briton is known for creating underwater museums that feature striking scupture collections.  He's created aquatic gardens everywhere from Cannes, Mexico, Grenada, the Bahamas, Lanzarote, Norway Australia, and the Maldives...

And it's hoped that the materials will be a haven for sea life.

A launch statement said, "The sculptures have been designed and made with materials that attract marine life, and are placed at different depths, thus creating a suitable substrate for marine life at all levels.

'The sculptures are made of inert materials, with neutrals pH, so as not to affect the area adversely. It's a sandy area and it is expected that over time the biodversity of the area will be enriches, thanks to the museum...

Go to the link to see wonderful photos and a video....

18th CENTURY SHIP - HMS ENDEAVER - CAPTAIN COOK'S SUNKEN SHIP FOUND! NEWPORT HARBOR

 DAILY MAIL : CAPTAIN COOK'S SUNKEN SHIP FOUND!

250 years have gone by but what remains of the HMS Endeaver has been found in NewPort Harbor. the Australian National Maritime Museum people accept that this is the ship.  This article from February 2022 has some wonderful photos and graphics such as the ship's route.

Excerpt: Originally lauched in 1764 as the Eart of Pembroke, the ship was renamed Endeavour in 1768 by Britain's Royal Navy and prepared for a major scientific voyage to the Pacific.

From 1768 to 1771 Endeavor sailed the South Pacific, primarily to record the transit of Venus in Tahiti in 1769.

Cook then sailed it around the South Pacific searching for 'the Great Southern Land' charting the coast of New Zealand and Australia's eastern coastline before claiming the land for Great Britain on August 22, 1770.

THE GENERATOR THAT TURNS PLASTIC TRASH INTO EDIBLE PROTEIN : THE FUTURE INSIGHT PRIZE

NEWSWEEK - GENERATOR - PLATIC - PROTEIN By Georgina Jadikovskaall from a bit more than a year ago,

Excerot: Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a generator conet that turns plastics into protein.

The 2021 Future Insight Prize went to Ting Lu, a professor of bioengineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Stephen Techtmann, associate pofessor of biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University, for their project.  It used microbes to degrade plastic. 

MORE INFORMATION ON THE FUTURE INSIGHT PRIZE:

MERCK - FUTURE INSIGHT PRIZE

YOU MAY NEED TO TRAVEL TO JAPAN TO SEE THE BEST AQUARIUM IN THE WORLD

On the top of lists is the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.

Their tanks are large enough to house a Whale Shark and the have a Coral breeding program.

The web site is in Japanese and in English:  CHURAUMIT - OKINAWA AQUARIUM

SEA CREATURES RECENTLY DISCOVERED! SHARKS THAT GLOW BLUE! HOW ABOUT A SNAKE THAT SWIMS THROUGH GLACIERS?

 

An exciting video from Origins Explained.... Check out the Wandering Meatloaf!

WEIRDEST SEA CREATURES EVER - WHATS A WOBBEGONG? A RED HAND FISH?

OK, this collection of sea creatures is truly the weirdest.  Imagine a fish that has red hands, or a fish that looks like a boulder.  And only if you go to the National Geographic-Kids site here

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS - DISCOVER STRANGE SEA CREATURES

will you get to know hat a WOBBEGONG looks like...