Siren's Link To Sea

9/30/26

FOUR HUNDRED POUND SEA TURTLE IN CAYMAN ISLAND SWIMMING POOL RESCUED

Artificial Light is the problem:

Excerpt: But artificial light sources from development on the beach, or flashlights, can interrupt this process and redirect the turtles from where they need to go.

The DoE reminded beachfront properties to help protect nesting turtles by doing the following:Retaining and restoring native coastal vegetation
Reducing artificial light visible from the beach
Moving beach furniture and small watercrafts off the active beach overnight
Designing new elevated pools or installing effective barriers around ground-level pools
Never leaving ground-level pools empty or without suitable fencing during nesting season

Beach-goers and tourists can also do their part to protect sea turtles. during nesting season, including keeping beaches flat and easy to navigate and reducing their own sources of artificial light.

GoodGoodGood : Sea Turtle Rescue Caymen Islands Resort

9/27/26

A ONE HUNDRED FOOT ROGUE WAVE SHATTERED OCEAN SCIENCE MYTH : THIS ONE WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA

The 100-Foot Rogue Wave That Shattered Ocean Science Myths

Excerpt: A dramatic image that has recently resurfaced on social media shows what is believed to be one of history's most famous rogue waves—a towering wall of water bearing down on the French supertanker Esso Languedoc off the coast of Durban, South Africa, in 1980.

The unforgettable photograph was taken by first mate Philippe Lijour, who happened to have his camera ready as the massive wave rose above the ship's bow. The wave was later estimated to have reached nearly 100 feet in height.

The numbers alone are staggering.

As the wave crashed across the vessel, it swept over a mast standing roughly 82 feet above the waterline, offering one of the earliest pieces of photographic evidence that these seemingly impossible waves truly existed.

9/24/26

ORCA

9/21/26

WHY WON'T THE DEALIEST PREDATOR IN THE OCEAN (ORCA) EAT YOU?

They don't hunt humans. Do we taste bad?

9/19/26

WHAT ELSE IS HIDING DOWN IN THE ATACAMA TRENCH ? : D CAMANCHACA BUILT FOR VIOLENCE : NEW PREDATOR WITH FRONT LIMBS AND SPRING LOADED CLAWS

POPULAR MECHANICS " NEW PREDATOR FOUND IN ATACAMA TRENCH

Excerpt: while nobody has yet watched D. camanchaca eat, its body is clearly built for violence. It has a slender, fast-looking frame, mouthparts made for shredding rather than filtering, and a pair of oversized, grasping front limbs that work like spring-loaded claws. In most amphipods, those limbs are unremarkable. But in D. camanchaca, they dominate the animal’s front end, which is the anatomical signature of something that grabs living prey instead of waiting for a dead whale to drift down.

At 25,925 feet, the water presses down at roughly 790 times the atmospheric pressure at sea level. But the two-inch-long D. camanchaca is able to live there, molting, swimming, and hunting under a load that would flatten most creatures. Precisely how it manages that isn’t yet fully understood.

“This finding underlines the importance of continued deep-ocean exploration particularly in Chile’s front yard,” IMO’s Carolina González, co-lead author of the study, said in a press statement “More discoveries are expected as we continue to study the Atacama Trench.”

9/16/26

BRAWN LED TO BRAINS : PBS EON TELLS US THAT THE TWO DEVELOPED TOGETHER

9/14/26

THE AIR

9/11/26

SHARKZILLA?!? 3.6 METRE SHARK TOOK CHOMPS OUT OF HUMPBACK WHALE and SEAL AND HUGE TUNA : IS THIS THE RESULT OF NUCLEAR WASTE MUTATION

2 OCEAN VIBE : MASSIVE 3.6 METRE SHARK : NUCLEAR WASTE DRIVEN BIOLOGICAL CHANGES?

Excerpt: But the discovery of a 12-foot (3.7-metre) mako shark in New York’s coastline, which has been dubbed Sharkzilla, has some locals thinking that its huge size might be the result of a nuclear waste leak causing it to mutate. Yes, really.

This shark is making its marks, quite literally, having taken a 24-inch chomp out of a humpback whale, inflicting a 22-inch wound on a seal and chewing up a 400-pound (180 kilogram) tuna. So, at least its eating well.

The fearsome sea creature was recently featured on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week in an episode titled “Sharkzilla Takes New York,” with the show detailing the efforts of shark scientist, Craig O’Connell, and experts to track down the beast, with the attacks proving that enormous sharks are making a return to the area.

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