NORTHEAST CANYONS and SEAMOUNTS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT WILL REMAIN - ATLANTIC OCEAN CONSERVANCY

 EXCERPT: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a fishing group that challenged the creation of a large federally protected are in the Atlantic Ocean.

The group sued to try to get rid of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which became the first national ocean monument in the Atlantic when President Barack Obama created it in 2016.  The area consists of 5,000 square miles off New England, and it is home to fragile deep sea corals.

SEA TURTLE HURT BY FISHERMAN'S HOOKS DELIVERS 6 EGGS

The endangered turle was brought to a turtle hospital in the Florida Keys, and her six eggs, if they hatch, will be returned to the beach she was found on. Linking to Yahoo News, for the picture and article!

OCTOPUS AT AKRON ZOO PICKS HER OWN NAME : CORA

"A list of 2,200 suggestions submitted in a public naming contest was narrowed to three options today for the 20-pound, 4-foot-long octopus, and it chose Cora. It’s a shortened version of coral, which is a popular octopus habitat and the theme of the exhibit."

Linking to the Associated Press article which has a great color picture of Cora picking her ball of treats - and her name!

SEA CREATURES FROM JAPANESE TSUNAMI REACHES U.S.

JEFF BARNARD of AP Press reports on the dock that arrived on the west coast of the U.S. bringing sea creatures that could invade the ecology here.

"Along for the ride were hundreds of millions of individual organisms, including a tiny species of crab, a species of algae, and a little starfish all native to Japan that have scientists concerned if they get a chance to spread out on the West Coast.

"This is a very clear threat," said John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore., where the dock washed up early Tuesday. "... It's incredibly difficult to predict what will happen next."

A dozen volunteers scraped the dock clean of marine organisms and sterilized it with torches Thursday to prevent the spread of invasive species, said Chris Havel, spokesman for the state Department of Parks and Recreation, which is overseeing the dock's fate."

LOBSTER TAG LOST IN 2011 PERFECT STORM WASHES ASHORE IN IRELAND

It washed up 3000 miles away and across the Atlantic. Linking to the Associated Press Article and picture from the Patriot Ledger newspaper. A man lost hundreds of lobster traps and has been united with this memento when the beach comber who found it located him using Facebook.

ANDRE THE SEA TURTLE FOUND DEAD AFTER HEROIC EFFORTS TO SAVE HIM

"When Andre was found stranded on a sandbar on June 15, 2010, he had gaping holes in his shell, the result of two apparent boat strikes. More than three pounds of sand were inside him, along with at least a couple of crabs, a raging infection and a collapsed lung. His spinal cord was exposed, pneumonia was plaguing him and death seemed certain. Any one of those injuries could have killed him, but his flippers were working and his neurological function appeared normal. So after beachgoers pulled him ashore on a boogie board, veterinarians began what became a yearlong effort to save him."

MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

RICHARD BRANSON

"Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson on Tuesday unveiled a new single-person submarine that he said will be used to set new world records by exploring the five deepest parts of the world's oceans.

Branson said that over the next two years, the solo craft will go to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic's Puerto Rico Trench and South Sandwich Trench, the Diamantina Trench in the Indian Ocean and the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean."

Link to the full article above!

TSUNAMI SWEEPS ACROSS THE PACIFIC KILLS HUNDREDS AFTER QUAKE IN JAPAN LAST NIGHT

Tsunami: One of the effects of a massive earth quake. It makes you want to live on a mouontain instead of at the beach. With tremors ghoing as far as Tokyo, this one makes history,

Here is breaking news including a video from Malcolm Foster, Associated Press.

"The entire Pacific had been put on alert — including coastal areas of South America, Canada and Alaska — but waves were not as bad as expected... Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. Another 137 were confirmed killed, with 531 people missing. Police also said 627 people were injured...The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 aftershocks, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0..."

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!