News Article: August/September 2011Local NewsWhales Re-Colonising New Zealand1-08-2011Scientists discovered that southern right whales appear to be re-colonising mainland New Zealand calving grounds from a remnant population in the subantarctic Auckland Islands. The endangered whales ... More Marine Pingers1-08-2011Cutting-edge Queensland technology which prevents whales and other marine life from becoming trapped in shark nets will be taken to the world. The $150 'marine pingers' were added to ... More Wreck Find Ends 76 Year Mystery1-08-2011The 17 members of the Southern Ocean Exploration group searched for the Coramba for eight years. She was found lying on her port side in 66m by a dedicated team of wreck ... More Snorkeller left on Great Barrier Reef1-08-2011A 28 year old American tourist swam for help after being left behind on a Great Barrier Reef snorkelling trip in Australia. He was forced to swim to another vessel owned by the same ... More Auckland Features Renamed1-08-2011New Zealand's Little Barrier Island, Bream Tail, Goat Island and Mathesons Bay were renamed after the Crown reached a treaty settlement with Ngati Manuhiri. Although the English names can ... More Part of White Terraces Found1-08-2011Scientists who found part of the famed Pink Terraces in Lake Rotomahana (New Zealand) also found remnants of the White Terraces. The side scan sonar data contained images of... More No Sewage into the Ocean1-08-2011New Zealands Hon Dr Nick Smith, Minister for the Environment, opened a pilot plant near Rotorua to turn sewage sludge into energy, plastics and useful chemicals. The thermal oxidation pilot plant was ... More Leaders in Marine Science Join Forces1-08-2011New Zealands University of Auckland and NIWA established a Joint Graduate School in Coastal and Marine Science to offer postgraduate degrees in coastal and marine science. The University ... More Theft of 300-year-old Bell1-08-2011A man was charged with stealing a 300 year old ship's bell from Otorohanga, New Zealand. A Hamilton scrap dealer's yard paid $435 for it, then sent it to its Auckland yard ... More Coromandel Marine Reserve1-08-2011Coromandels marine reserve being proposed covers approximately 6.5k of coast line. Starting 2.5k south of Hot Water Beach including Boat Harbour and Neaves Bay, north of Tairua. The land adjacent ... More Fishing Public Has Stark Choices1-08-2011If re-elected New Zealands Fisheries Minister, Phil Heatley, will expand commercial paua fisheries and increase commercial allocations. New Zealand Recreational Fishing Council (NZRFC) president, Geoff Rowling said 'It is obvious the Minister and his ... More Emperor penguin dubbed Happy Feet1-08-2011receives pledges of support from New
Zealand companies. Happy Feet is the second emperor penguin in 40 years
to reach New Zealand shores since naturalists started keeping records.
The juvenile ... International NewsDeepest Technical Dive1-08-2011Six ex-servicemen from Australia, US and the UK are planning to put the port city of Aqaba on the world map as a diving destination. The experts are gearing up .... Champagne Price Hits Giddy High1-08-2011A bottle of Veuve Clicquot salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea set a world record for champagne when it sold for 30,000 euros (NZ$53,814) at an auction in Aland, Finland. The cache belongs... More Rainbow Warrior1-08-2011Greenpeace is preparing its first purpose-built boat at shipyards of Bremen, Northern Germany. But at the Fassmer yard on the banks of the river Weser a different kind of £16 million (NZ $32 million) dream boat... More World's Tallest Man Rescues Dolphins1-08-2011Bao Xishun was called to save two dolphins that swallowed plastic used around the pool at an aquarium in the Chinese province of Fushun. The Mongolian herdsman is the Guinness World Record holder for... More Starfish Slime For Asthma/Arthritis1-08-2011Slime from starfish found in Scottish waters could provide a cure to inflammatory conditions such as asthma, hay fever and arthritis. A team based... More HMS Ark Royal A Diving Wreck?1-08-2011A group of divers is bidding to turn the old aircraft carrier in to a dive wreck. Michael Byfield and James Doddrell believe turning the former Portsmouth-based ship into a reef could bring... More Hydrophones Locate Right Whales1-08-2011Scientists using undersea hydrophones documented the appearance of endangered right whales in a region east of Greenland, where they historically were hunted but thought to be extinct. The mapping shows... More 2,000 Year Old Black Corals1-08-2011Scientists validated the age of deep sea black corals in the Gulf of Mexico which is home to 2,000 year old deep sea black corals, many only a few feet tall. These slow-growing, long-living animals thrive in... More Trauma From Ocean Noise1-08-2011Researchers from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain) exposed 87 individual cephalopods to short sweeps of low-intensity, low-frequency sound between 50-400 hertz and examined their statocysts .... More Containers Lost At Sea1-08-2011Annually an estimated 10,000 shipping containers fall off container ships at sea, many sinking to the seafloor. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary used a robotic submarine ... More Japan Tsunami Debris1-08-2011Scientific projections of where the debris from the tsunami triggered by Japan's 9.0 magnitude earthquake might head shows within a year the north-western Hawaiian Islands will see pieces washing up on ... More Last Words1-08-2011Warren Smart (28) had no anger at the shark that gave him a fatal bite. While on a spearfishing trip in South Africa, Smart was removing the fish from his spear when a shark grabbed his thigh instead ... More Adopt A Shark1-08-2011For US$2,000, you can purchase a satellite tag to be attached to a bull, hammerhead or tiger shark, tracking its movements for up to a year and follow it in real time on the internet. The money supports ... More New Guinea's New Species1-08-2011The most extraordinary freshwater discovery is Glyphis garricki. In the salt waters: a snub-fin dolphin which now qualified as the first new dolphin species to be found in more than ... More New Species At Bali1-08-2011A marine survey in Indonesia discovered eight new species of fish and one new species of coral on Bali reefs. Among the new species: two types of cardinalfish, two varieties of dottybacks ... More Greenland's Vikings1-08-2011A 12th century Greenland cold snap may explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists said. The report, reconstructing temperatures by examining lake sediment cores in west ... More Jellyfish Swarms Threat to Oceans1-08-2011Research by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science USA suggests jellyfish are devouring huge quantities of plankton, depriving small fish of the food they need and destroying ... More Win a trip to the GBR1-09-2011Win a trip to the Great Barrier Reef aboard the MV Spirit of Freedom ... earn PADI's 20 millionth diver certification. The PADI organisation, consisting of dive professionals and divers around the globe, expects to reach a major milestone before the end of third quarter 2011 - its 20 millionth diver certification. |
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