Interesting story about Nudibranchs just published in National Geographic Magazine... PADI teaches us NOT to touch Marine Life...but how come...
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Picked up this interesting post from Gunther
Deichmann’s Blog...
click here.
Last night I became part
of an interesting 3-hour conversation with Marc Ambat and S M
Jayabalan, both are scuba divers and take underwater photos. Marc
is a Chief Technical Officer working at a Top Digital production
House specializing in Video FX and Jaya is the GM of Sensing
Technology Corporation. So there you have it, two very intelligent
and super nice people, our conversation started like
this…
I mention a recent article in DivePhotoGuide.com…
National Geographic has put up an
online gallery of amazing nudibranch photography from our good
friend David Doubilet, from the June issue. The imagery is
classicly Doubilet, putting a different perspective on
these amazingly diverse and colorful
subjects...read
more @ http://www.divephotoguide.com/articles/david_doubilet
Click on the Image and go direct to more of Omar’s
Photos
Above Photo: © Omar D.
Linsangan from
Dugong Dive Center, Palawan Philippines
This published article showcased the latest work
of David Doubilet…amazing images of cool looking Nudibranchs
(click the link for the images) http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/
How did he achieve this? That is a very good
question…you might say Photoshop…but I have heard
another story…read the complete story
at:
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/files/category-underwater-photography.html
Instead bringing children to some gory Shark Tournament...We should educate them that we have 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish' THINK NOW before it is to late.
Educating in schools is a good start…but not the way it is conducted at the…Disgusting Montauk Shark Tournament.
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'Only 50 years left' for sea fish'
By
Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News
website
Natural
protection
There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the
middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a
major scientific study. Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third
of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.
Writing in the journal Science, the international team of
researchers says fishery decline is closely tied to a broader loss
of marine biodiversity.
But a greater use of protected areas could safeguard existing
stocks. "The way we use the oceans is that we hope and assume there
will always be another species to exploit after we've completely
gone through the last one," said research leader Boris Worm, from
Dalhousie University in Canada.
This
century is the last century of wild seafood
Steve Palumbi
Should fish be off the menu?
Send us your comments "What we're highlighting is there is a finite
number of stocks; we have gone through one-third, and we are going
to get through the rest," he told the BBC News website.
Steve Palumbi, from Stanford University in California, one of the
other scientists on the project, added: "Unless we fundamentally
change the way we manage all the ocean species together, as working
ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild
seafood."
Spanning
the seas
This is a vast piece of research, incorporating scientists from
many institutions in Europe and the Americas, and drawing on four
distinctly different kinds of data.
For
the complete article go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm