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In terms of phobias, fear of deep water — which is categorically looped in with aquaphobia — ranks pretty high on my list. That being said, this post isn’t really all that relevant for me personally, because if I found myself in a rubber raft in the middle of the ocean, chances are excellent I would immediately proceed to suffer a fatal heart attack. (Note: Anyone also unlucky enough to be in said raft may cannibalize me or use bits of my body to keep sharks at bay. I don’t really care, plus times can get tough when you’re lost at sea. So it’s cool, I get it …)
But, for those with heartier constitutions when it comes to the vast watery depths, I thought it might be interesting to run down the list of actions that are considered smart moves if you happen to find yourself shipwrecked.
It’s always an adventure clicking on CNN.com or whatever your go-to online news source happens to be. Each morning I awake ready to see a list of the top ten or so things that are pretty awful here on planet E. Famine and flood, earthquakes, murder/suicides, the passing of Daddy the pit bull — it’s never a joy ride when international news is there for the digesting.
This afternoon I clicked on said Web site to read a headline that indicated a killer whale had killed a Sea World trainer in Orlando, Fla.
Bob Barker Saves Whales with Namesake Ice-crusher
by Sarah Dowdey | January 6, 2010
Bob Barker is best known for his genial, tanned, 35-year-long presence on “The Price is Right.” But there’s also the tough as nails, fighting Barker of movie cameos — notably, “Happy Gilmore.” This piece of news seems to satisfy both reputations: Barker is helping to stop whaling with a 1,200-ton (1,000-metric-ton), ice-crushing namesake ship.
According to the AP, Barker donated $5 million to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which in turn named its anti-whaling vessel “The Bob Barker” in honor of the game show host. On Tuesday, the high-speed ship had its first encounter with Japanese whalers off of Antarctica.
Thought the “Seven Seas” were static? Nope, they’ve gone through many incarnations since the ancient Greeks started grouping their local bodies of water into one convenient moniker. European explorers expanded the definition a bit to include a wider sampling of world waters, and today we’d probably list the Arctic, North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans in the big seven — if we used the phrase at all.
But it turns out, there’s a new ocean in the making, rending the African continent right through the middle of Ethiopia.
Deep Sea Light Show — Thank You, Bioluminescence
by Amanda Arnold | October 22, 2009
It makes me happy that sea creatures in the darkest parts of our oceans glow.
The other day I watched a Discover video about a scientist named Edie Widder who invented an underwater camera that she’s placed in the darkest depths of the ocean. She’s caught some interesting stuff on video.
Last night I had the opportunity to attend Science on Tap, the first in a new series of lectures at the Georgia Aquarium here in Atlanta. This particular presentation was led by head divers Jeff Reid and Mauritius Bell, who provided a fascinating insight into their professional lives.
So I just found out that Alaskans spotted an unidentified organic blob in the waters off the Chukchi Sea. Would this turn out to be something new and amazing, an established natural phenomenon or this year’s bigfoot hoax?
Carbon capture and storage is a way to filter excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it. Tune in as Josh and Chuck discuss current methods of carbon capture and storage — and how feasible they are — in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
For our next planet hacking scheme, we’re taking geoengineering right back into the ocean. I know what you’re thinking. What’s next, right? Giant robotic squid that suck CO2 in with their tentacles of green fury? Some wonder chemical that makes the ocean more reflective? While I promise that the next entry will have robots in it, this entry is all about growing a ton of whale food in the sea.
So thus far we’ve looked at a number of land- and air-based planet hacking schemes to counter global warming. But what about the ocean? As I promised Friday, we’re hitting the seven seas for the next couple of entries. First up: carbonate addition.
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