News Article: June/July 2006

Local News

Fines for rock lobster offences

1-06-2006

 A Masterton man was found guilty of possessing 25 excess rock lobsters, the majority of which were undersized. More

Lost diver’s cries reach crewman on smoke break

1-06-2006

The Wellington diver picked up after a night drifting in Cook Strait started to worry when sea fog closed in round him. More

Sale of Lermontov symbol angers former Skipper

1-06-2006

 The captain of the Mikhail Lermontov, the Soviet cruise liner that sank in the Marlborough Sounds 20 years ago, is upset about the attempt to sell the hammer and sickle from his former ship. More

New Zealand whale probe on US TV

1-06-2006

Steve O’Shea, the director of the Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology, is currently investigating the death of a young calf, a Haast’s beaked whale, which measured only two metres when it died at at Jackson Bay, south of Haast. More

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton

1-06-2006

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton is consulting on an industry proposal to ban bottom trawling from almost a third of New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). More

To call Flipper, whistle the name

1-06-2006

Scientists report that dolphins can call each other by name when they whistle. More

International News

Navy explosive experts ready to sink the Oriskany Weather

1-06-2006

Navy explosive experts ready to sink the Oriskany Weather permitting the 17th of May 2006 will see the sinking of the 888ft long aircraft carrier Oriskany in the Gulf of Mexico. More

French Polynesia

1-06-2006

Marlon Brando fell in love with French Polynesia while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1965. More

Penguin sets new dive record

1-06-2006

A tiny inhabitant of Phillip Island, south-west of Melbourne, has taken diving to a new depth. More

Undersea ‘aquanauts’ practise for moon trips

1-06-2006

A team of astronauts and divers have wrapped up a record-setting mission to the ocean floor — filled with undersea ‘moonwalks’ and robotic surgeries - this was all controlled by a doctor high and dry in Canada. More

Japanese Firms Quit Whaling

1-06-2006

The five Japanese fishing companies that owned the nation’s whaling fleet recently announced that they’re getting out of the whaling business. More

Warning about old scuba tanks in storage

1-06-2006

In Australia recently, an exploding scuba tank has prompted a warning to consumers about scuba tanks that are 15-30 years old. More

Scientists Study Hundreds of Dead Dolphins

1-06-2006

 Scientists in Tanzania are trying to discover why hundreds of dolphins were washed up dead on the coast of Zanzibar. More

The Tiny Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati

1-06-2006

Announces the creation of the world’s third largest marine protected area.

Lack of oxygen in ocean ‘dead zones’ trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat

1-07-2006

Oxygen depletion in the world’s oceans, primarily caused by agricultural run-off and pollution, could spark the development of far more male fish than female, thereby threatening some species with extinction.

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