News Article: June/July 2009Local NewsAge Impacts on Autumn Drowning Toll2-06-2009Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ) drowning data show two thirds of all drowning deaths for March-April were men aged 50 and over participating in water recreational activities. More Selling Lobster From Car Boot2-06-2009A 50-year-old former commercial fisherman from Whangarei, New Zealand was charged under the Fisheries Act after allegedly offering lobster he caught recreationally for $15-$30 each. More Tiritiri Matangi Top Restoration Site2-06-2009Tiritiri Matangi Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf Marine Park (New Zealand) was named one of the top 25 ecological restoration projects in Australia and New Zealand. More Climate Change Talks2-06-2009More than 150 scientists from around the world attended a science conference and workshops in Wellington, New Zealand, in May. More German funding for New Zealand Marine Institute2-06-2009A world-ranked marine research institute is to be established in Tauranga thanks to a $5.5 million grant from the German Government and a partnership between Waikato University and Bremen University. More Anti-Nuclear Veteran Returns to New Zealand Shores17-06-200917 June 2009 Auckland New Zealand - Vega, the 38ft veteran nuclear protest vessel, sailed back into Auckland harbour today, from Australia, making New Zealand her home port once again after more than 10 years. More DOC No Longer To Make Marine Reserve Proposals2-07-2009The Department of Conservation (DOC) can no longer make applications for new marine reserves, MPs were told today. New Zealand southern whales27-07-2009New studies show that New Zealand's waters once teemed with up to 32,000 southern right whales. More Ocean yields piece of maritime history27-07-2009A sizeable part of a coal barque wrecked on the coast north of Napier, New Zealand, 133 years ago has been found by maritime enthusiast Noel Suckling. More Fishing court case Hector's dolphin27-07-2009A New Zealand court case challenging measures to protect endangered Hector's dolphins will be closely watched by Forest & Bird. More International NewsPink Dolphin Discovered2-06-2009The world’s only pink bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, is such an attraction that conservationists warned tourists to leave it alone. More Spanish Galleon Found2-06-2009Tom Gidus of Gold Coast Explorations in Florida reported that his team has discovered a shipwreck off the east coast of Florida, USA, that dates to the early 17th century. More Great Lake’s Sinkholes Host Ecosystem2-06-2009A research team from Grand Valley State University and NOAA are exploring extreme conditions for life in a place not known for extremes. More Fish With Tubular Eyes2-06-2009Researchers at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute solved the half-century mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. More 200-Year-Old Dagger-Board Schooner2-06-2009A rare dagger-board schooner was discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario, New York. More Closer to Finding Origins of Life2-06-2009Scientists have developed an experiment which demonstrates how the very first life may have formed about four billion years ago. More Rally Against Shark Finning2-06-2009Campaigning against the consumption of shark fins, animal activists held a rally at Speakers Corner, Singapore’s only venue for demonstrations. More Japan Goes for Coral Transplant2-06-2009East China Sea, at Sekisei Lagoon, a team of divers bore holes into the surface with compressed-air drills that release plumes of glittering bubbles then insert small ceramic discs into the fresh openings. More Deep Sea Inmates2-06-2009Californian inmates learn commercial diving as part of a programme to prepare them for life after jail. The hope is the experience will provide skills that lead to a change in behaviour. More All Cephalopods Venomous2-06-2009Scientific studies from Universities of Melbourne and Brussels and Victoria Museum found that, while the blue-ringed octopus is dangerous to humans, other groups use their venom for predation. More Titanic Remains to Stay On Seabed2-06-2009A federal judge in Virginia, USA, is poised to preserve the largest collection of artefacts from the ocean liner and protect the ship’s resting place. More Brazilian Fisherman Spears Own Head2-06-2009Three days after doctors surgically removed a 15cm spear from his brain, Emerson de Oliveira Abreu said he would never get back into the water to fish with a spear. More British Actor in Scuba Accident2-06-2009Martin Clunes was diving the wreck of the John Strachan steamboat, near Islay in Scotland when he suffered breathing difficulties. More The Great Turtle Race2-06-2009While turtles are slow and clumsy on land, they can travel at great speeds for vast distances in the ocean. More Vandenberg to Sink2-06-2009After years of red tape, the dive industry is nearing the sinking of the former United States Air Force missile tracking vessel, the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg in the south of Key West, Florida, USA. More ‘Best Job in the World’ Winner2-06-2009A bungee jumping, ostrich-riding British charity worker was named the winner of the ‘Best Job in the World’ - a contract to serve as caretaker of Australia’s Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef. More Herbicide Pollution of Great Barrier Reef2-06-2009A four-year study of wet season runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef shows dangerous levels of herbicides, including diuron, atrazine and ametryn in the reef catchment and lagoon areas. More Eating Habits of Snubfin Dolphin2-06-2009A newly-discovered species of dolphin found off the Queensland and Territory coasts in 2005 catches its prey by spitting at it. More Doom and Boom on a Resilient Reef2-06-2009Marine scientists are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006. More Nereus Reaches Deepest Part of the Ocean18-06-2009Nereus Reaches DeepeA new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world’s ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. More Iceland whaling season kicks off amid protests5-06-2009Iceland's whaling season began early June in defiance of protests from animal rights group that have called for an end to the practice and after international calls for it to reduce whaling quotas. More New boffinry: North Atlantic could be massive CO2 sink8-07-2009British oceanographers say they have found evidence that phytoplankton growth in the north Atlantic is sharply limited by the availability of iron. The seagoing boffins suggest that their research could have important implications for efforts to fight climate change, as phytoplankton can absorb large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. More Dozens of beached whales shot dead27-07-2009About 55 pilot whales, washed up on Kommetjie beach, Cape Town (South Africa) shortly after dawn. It is believed a 'navigational error' caused them to wash ashore. More WWII Soviet sub wreck found27-07-2009A Finnish-Swedish dive team discovered a Soviet submarine wreck in the Aland Sea between Finland and Sweden. More Coral reefs in Ireland27-07-2009During a recent deep-water expedition National University of Ireland's Galway researchers, confirmed the existence of a major new coral reef province on the southern end of the Porcupine Bank off the west coast of Ireland. More Researchers tag 50 basking sharks27-07-2009The taggings were carried out mainly around Malin Head (Ireland's Donegal coast), a hotspot for basking sharks when summer plankton blooms set in. More Argentine golden shipwreck found27-07-2009A vessel which sank carrying US$18m in gold and silver ingots was found in the Magellan Straits off the coast of Argentina. More Florida's newest artificial reef is ready27-07-2009The General Hoyt S Vandenberg is now a public dive site. Forty-four explosive charges sent her to the bottom. More Babysitting sessions for sperm whales27-07-2009The planet's deepest diving whales network to keep their calves safe. Mother sperm whales use organised babysitting sessions so they can hunt for food, scientists have discovered. More Record for longest breath27-07-2009A 37-year-old Frenchman set a world record for the longest time holding his breath underwater, 11 minutes and 35 seconds. More Sub sets record in dive27-07-2009A new robotic vehicle named Nereus made the deepest ocean dive at 6.8 miles (10,902 metres). Nereus explored the Challenger Deep - the ocean's deepest point, located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. More Seal debate27-07-2009Canada's Governor-General ate a slaughtered seal's raw heart in a show of support to Canada's seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman called 'too bizarre to acknowledge'. More Iceland whaling season27-07-2009One of two countries worldwide still authorising commercial whaling set a quota of 100 minke whales that can be killed during the whaling season which runs from May to late September. More Right whale sedation27-07-2009For the first time ever a North Atlantic right whale, severely entangled in fishing gear was administered a sedation mixture... More Piracy in the Gulf of Aden27-07-2009Turkey and Singapore recently committed forces to combined Task Force (CTF) 151, an international naval coalition conducting counterpiracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. More Biofuel development27-07-2009Biofuel research is shifting from soil-based plants such as corn and soybeans to sea-based marine algae, said scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California. More Funds for small whale conservation27-07-2009Australia's top environmental official has pledged AU$500,000 (NZ$630,000) to help save the world's small whales as part of a major contribution to the International Whaling Commission. More New animals discovered27-07-2009A deep sea submarine exploring the Tasman Fracture Zone off Australia's southern coast, a vertical drop in the earth's crust from two to four kilometres, discovered new species of animals. More Local charity partners with tv giant27-07-2009Townsville-based charity, Reef Check Australia was awarded a prestigious partnership with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in a new initiative from the national channel. More Ice centre changes base27-07-2009The global organisation responsible for co-ordinating the Antarctic research activities of 29 nations is shifting from Hobart (Australia) to Christchurch (New Zealand). More |
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