Now the Guinness Book of World Records holder as the world's deepest pool, since 2021, this one is 60 meters deep and is heated so that cumbersome suits are not a requirement. The pool has an area that was designed with the idea of underwater filming featuring a sunken city and various props. Dozens of underwater cameras are watched to add to the safety of the experience.
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Showing posts with label fresh water. Show all posts
9/5/24
DEEPEST SWIMMING POOLS IN THE WORLD! : NEMO 33 is 33 METERS DEEP (WOULD YOU DARE TO GO THAT FAR DOWN?)
NEMO 33 held the record for some time and it exists in Brussels, Belgium. Pools like this are architectural achievements and provide thrill-seekers who dive or freedive (no oxygen equipment) an opportunity to experience a strange water environment, which, unlike a lake or ocean is free of marine animals and other hazards. It could still be very scary. People from all over the world go to experience the pool. Some to experience what it is to have so much water above you. Some to practice for deep sea dives. Unlike the ocean water, Nemo 33 water is warm and considered tropical, and the water is non-chlorinated fresh water. It held the Guinness World Record as the deepest indoor pool in the world from 2004 for about a decade.
According to various web sites on water pressure, at 33 feet down deep in the ocean there is a total pressure of 29.4 pounds per square inch being exerted on a body. Adjustments to oxygen are needed. But in water man can experience weightlessness.
8/30/23
MORE THAN 200 SHIPS MAKE UP AMERICA's LARGEST GHOST FLEET and THE MALLOWS BAY - POTOMAC NATURE PRESERVE - BIOBLITZ SEPTEMBER 9th
DAILY MAIL : SUNKEN GHOST FLEET
In 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration designated the area a national marine sanctuary. All but one of the ships were built of wood. Most were used in World War I. As sediment built up, some of the sunken ships became places where trees and bushes took root. A fresh water environment, both marine life and birds find a place called home.
Sept 9th - coming up, Mallows Bay is hosting a BioBlitz, so the public can volunteer to help identify the species that call Mallows Bay home. Research on the ecology of the area is ongoing.
INFORMATION ON THE BIOBLITZ for Citizen Scientists
6/23/22
MUDLARK by LARA MAIKLEM - SIREN's LINK TO SEA BOOK REVIEW - SEA FOSSILS
What a fascinating book. For those of you who like to go to the water's edge and see what you can find - besides sea shells and sea weeds washed ashore - this book may inspire you to think ahead about where you can go and why. Lara Maiklem's hobby as a mudlark, a person who finds things washed up by river tides, has made her an expert about the way the Thames River, the river that goes through the city of London to the ocean, flows. Most surprising to me was that this is a river that has tides. With the ebb and flow of the tides, various objects have been deposited, others have no doubt been washed out to sea for hundreds of years. So she and other mudlarkers make it a point of frequently visiting various areas where the river flows to see what has been brought up, what is embedded, and her finds include ancient coins, painted tiles, and a variety of objects like needles, pins, thimbles, and beads, religious objects and weapons. As most of these objects were made of natural materials - not plastic - they don't threaten the living creatures of those waters so much though of course there is a history of sea creatures becoming extinct over time. It's those creatures though that I want to excerpt about.
Page 53 Excerpt: Encased in clay and lying among the gravel on the foreshore are the fossilized remains of the creatures that inhabited those prehistoric seas. The pencil-like internal shells of belemnites, ancient extinct squid, that swam in shoals over 66 million years ago; bivalves the size and shape of cockles, frozen in stone; and 'devil's toenails', an extinct form of marine oyster that lived in the sediment of the seabed. At Warden's Point on the Estuary, fossilized crabs, lobsters, shells, twigs, and shark teeth fall from the low cliffs of London clay onto the beach where they can be collected by the handful, and occasionally smoothed pieces of yellow amber will wash ashore where the Estuary and the North Sea mingle. Years ago, before people knew what fossils were, they were shrouded in folklore and assigned all kinds of quasi-religious and mystical associations. One of the most commonly found fossils in the south of England, and along the Thames' foreshore, are echinoids. The colloquial name for echinoid is 'sea urchin', which comes from the old country name for hedgehog....
2/9/22
BEACH AND RIVER CLEAN UPS!
No matter where you live there is probably an opportunity to roll up your pant legs and get with a group of like-minded people who are working to keep the beaches and waterways clean of garbage and debris.
Besides the beauty of cleanliness, we are helping our ocean environment and all the sea creatures that live in it.
A quick search brought up these Southern California Events
1/4/22
PROJECT POLLUTION PREVENTION and DOGGIE PET POO (Pick it Up! Throw flea meds in Hazard Waste!)
LA DWP WINTER NEWSLETTER - PROJECT POLLUTION PREVENTION - PET WASTE
Did you know that flea medications in poo can hurt ocean life?
Or that as it decomposes, pet poo uses up a lot of oxygen in the water and the decomposition can contribute to killing off marine life?
Department of Water and Power - Los Angeles reminds us that we should include flea control products including shampoos, sprays, and collars in Household Hazardous Waste Collection and that pet poo we have not picked up can wash into storm drains...
4/28/21
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION HAS CHAPTERS ALL OVER! EVEN CHICAGO!
PLASTIC POLLUTION
FRESH WATER
BEACH ACCESS
Just some of the things worth fighting for!
Check them out! They have chapters all over - MAUI - MICHIGAN.
4/14/21
HEAL THE BAY - EVERY DAY IS EARTH DAY
Beach and NEIGHBORHOOD Clean Ups.... and new FRESH WATER LEGISLATION.
It's been a while since we checked into Heal the Bay!
7/25/17
DON'T WASTE AN EGG!
Just leaned that it takes 50 gallons of water to produce one chicken egg like you buy in the grocery store in 12 packs, so full of protein!
How the mathematicians figure this kind of thing out, I don't know.
Now I feel really bad about the day I forgot I had four eggs on the boil and, by the time I came back from walking the dog, they had exploded and were all over the kitchen wall!
How the mathematicians figure this kind of thing out, I don't know.
Now I feel really bad about the day I forgot I had four eggs on the boil and, by the time I came back from walking the dog, they had exploded and were all over the kitchen wall!
4/12/17
RACHEL CARSON - PESTICIDES PIONEER
RACHEL CARSON, who became famous for just part of her body of work, a book called Silent Spring, which came out in 1962, was a woman who tried to make the wake up call that pesticides were poisoning the environment. This marine biologist worked long and hard at her avocation, without making much money or becoming rich. Though her research followed scientific methods in her time, today no doubt she'd be a PHD.
Her focus was a bit more on the ocean environment first, what was happening under the water to animals like fish, but she couldn't deep sea dive, and eventually focused on the sea life that was closer to shore in tide pools.
This film shows you how DDT was marketed - almost as if it were good for the environment and our health!
This film also reveals that Carson was an intensely private woman, you could say a bit of a loner, who enjoyed research and having a rich studious life more so than being social. She also had a battle with breast cancer.
I wonder if Carson ever linked her breast cancer with pollution, in particular pesticides!
4/23/16
AMAZON RIVER - 600 MILE LONG CORAL REEF - 60 SPECIES OF SPONGES and MORE!
DAILY MAIL - MASSIVE CORAL REEF AT THE AMAZON! link to full article!
EXCERPT:
EXCERPT:
Researchers say the find was not suspected because many of the world's great rivers produce major gaps in reef systems, where no corals grow.
The Amazon plume, an area where freshwater from the river mixes with the salty Atlantic Ocean, affects a broad area of the tropical North Atlantic Ocean in terms of salinity, pH, light penetration and sedimentation, conditions that usually correlate to a major gap in Western Atlantic reefs.
The researchers say the reef appears to be thriving below the freshwater 'plume', or outflow, of the Amazon.
Compared to many other reefs, the scientists say in a paper in Science Advances on Friday, it is is relatively 'impoverished'.
Despite this, they found over 60 species of sponges, 73 species of fish, spiny lobsters, stars and much other reef life.
11/5/14
MORE WAYS TO SAVE WATER! by SIREN! SIREN'S LINK TO SEA!
1) When you make tea and don't drink it all, use it to water plants.
2) Since coffee grounds are good fertilizer for acid loving plants, which includes geraniums, go ahead and pour undrunk coffee cold (without sugar or creamer or milk) to water plants.
3) Clean but for your hair? Consider brushing it, allowing the natural oils to accumulate an extra day, and wear a scarf over your hair, or braid it. For some this is a deliberate "bad hair day," but your hair and scalp sometimes need a day off from shampoos, conditioners, and all the rest.
4) Do less laundry or less often. If an item of clothing isn't smelly or truly dirty, consider airing it out and wearing it a second time before you put it into the laundry.
5) When hand washing dishes, be sure you aren't wasting water as you rinse. Soap dishes and set aside soaped up, then rinse a load all together. You do want all the soap off the dishes since you don't want to ingest it, but this method should use less water than rinsing items one at a time or letting the water run.
2) Since coffee grounds are good fertilizer for acid loving plants, which includes geraniums, go ahead and pour undrunk coffee cold (without sugar or creamer or milk) to water plants.
3) Clean but for your hair? Consider brushing it, allowing the natural oils to accumulate an extra day, and wear a scarf over your hair, or braid it. For some this is a deliberate "bad hair day," but your hair and scalp sometimes need a day off from shampoos, conditioners, and all the rest.
4) Do less laundry or less often. If an item of clothing isn't smelly or truly dirty, consider airing it out and wearing it a second time before you put it into the laundry.
5) When hand washing dishes, be sure you aren't wasting water as you rinse. Soap dishes and set aside soaped up, then rinse a load all together. You do want all the soap off the dishes since you don't want to ingest it, but this method should use less water than rinsing items one at a time or letting the water run.
8/5/14
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SAVE WATER!
A you probably know already, there is drought and as a result in many places there is water rationing.
You can help save water by not wasting it. Here is a list of things you can do that will help us save water so that there's enough for everyone for drinking and bathing, and so our farmers can water their crops. You can probably think of other ways.
1) When you take a shower, after you're all wet and your hair is all wet, shut the water off while you soap up. Turn it back on to rinse. YOU WILL SAVE GALLONS.
2) Don't use the water to heat a bathroom when it's too chilly to shower or bath. Use a small portable heater to raise the air temperature first, shut it off, and then start with hotter water, and as the air temperature in the room rises, lower the water temperature.
3) Your dog and cat need to drink fresh water so you change the water in the bowl a couple times a day. Don't throw that water down the sink. Take it and water the vegetation that is on the "parkway" between the side walk and the street. INSECTS NEED WATER and when they can't find it where they live they will come inside looking for it. Then we kill them.
4) Consider changing part of your lawn from grass to a succulent or arid garden. Put down stone for walkways around plantings.
5) Be sure that your lawn and garden sprinklers are working and adjusted to not waste water that goes down the street to the sewer.
6) Toilets with low water flush are a puzzle. Some of them have to be flushed twice to do the job. However, you may have a toilet that would work just fine with less water. Try filling a gallon water bottle, put the lid on it, set it down in the tank, and see what happens. Displacing one gallon of water each time you flush will also save gallons.
7) Hand wash and hang to dry some of your clothing rather than put it through the machine. Hand washing is not only more gentle to fabrics but it also sometimes does a better job than the machine. Over time you will save money and water.
You can help save water by not wasting it. Here is a list of things you can do that will help us save water so that there's enough for everyone for drinking and bathing, and so our farmers can water their crops. You can probably think of other ways.
1) When you take a shower, after you're all wet and your hair is all wet, shut the water off while you soap up. Turn it back on to rinse. YOU WILL SAVE GALLONS.
2) Don't use the water to heat a bathroom when it's too chilly to shower or bath. Use a small portable heater to raise the air temperature first, shut it off, and then start with hotter water, and as the air temperature in the room rises, lower the water temperature.
3) Your dog and cat need to drink fresh water so you change the water in the bowl a couple times a day. Don't throw that water down the sink. Take it and water the vegetation that is on the "parkway" between the side walk and the street. INSECTS NEED WATER and when they can't find it where they live they will come inside looking for it. Then we kill them.
4) Consider changing part of your lawn from grass to a succulent or arid garden. Put down stone for walkways around plantings.
5) Be sure that your lawn and garden sprinklers are working and adjusted to not waste water that goes down the street to the sewer.
6) Toilets with low water flush are a puzzle. Some of them have to be flushed twice to do the job. However, you may have a toilet that would work just fine with less water. Try filling a gallon water bottle, put the lid on it, set it down in the tank, and see what happens. Displacing one gallon of water each time you flush will also save gallons.
7) Hand wash and hang to dry some of your clothing rather than put it through the machine. Hand washing is not only more gentle to fabrics but it also sometimes does a better job than the machine. Over time you will save money and water.
2/22/14
OREGON CHUB FIRST FISH TO BE TAKEN OFF ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST AFTER 21 YEARS - FRESH WATER MINNOW
SC MONITOR : OREGON MINNOW BOUNCES BACK FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
full article link above
... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it was proposing that the Oregon chub was recovered, 21 years after it went on the endangered species list. The proposal will go through a 60-day public comment period before becoming final. The agency will monitor the fish for nine years to make sure populations continue to grow.
"We're not saying it won't need management," Paul Henson, Oregon director of Fish and Wildlife, said in an interview. "But they can leave the hospital and get out to be an outpatient." ...
full article link above
... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it was proposing that the Oregon chub was recovered, 21 years after it went on the endangered species list. The proposal will go through a 60-day public comment period before becoming final. The agency will monitor the fish for nine years to make sure populations continue to grow.
"We're not saying it won't need management," Paul Henson, Oregon director of Fish and Wildlife, said in an interview. "But they can leave the hospital and get out to be an outpatient." ...
2/7/14
ENDANGERED SPECIES - AN IMPORTANT ISSUE
While we're concerned about drought on land and having enough water for drinking, bathing, cooking... never mind watering lawns! And having enough fresh water so that farmers can water their crops and their animals will have enough too ... so we can eat... live... is of utmost importance, there is always evidence of environmental changes that effect FISH and SEA CREATURES in fresh and salt water. Over the next few days I'll be posting links to some important news articles that cover these issues.
1/30/14
GET YOUR NEXT GLASS OF WATER FROM UNDER SEA FLOOR?
FORBES _ FRESHWAER FOUND UNDER OCEAN FLOOR
Massive reserves of “freshwater” are buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves around the world, including off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.
This is the conclusion of a new study by a team of Australian scientists that appears in this week’s issue of the journal, Nature.
Based on an analysis of seafloor water studies conducted for oil and gas exploration purposes, the study showed that an estimated that 500,000 cubic kilometers of low-salinity water is trapped in aquifers under the ocean floor."
Massive reserves of “freshwater” are buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves around the world, including off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.
This is the conclusion of a new study by a team of Australian scientists that appears in this week’s issue of the journal, Nature.
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