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News stories for February 2006 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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28 February 2006
The gorgeous coral that draws 2 million tourists a year to Australia's Great Barrier Reef could all be gone by 2025, if global warming keeps pushing up sea temperatures. |
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27 February 2006
Elephant seals on South Georgia have been recruited to the cause of science. Equipped with computerised tags stuck to their heads, the animals have been collecting remarkable new information on conditions in the Southern Ocean. |
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26 February 2006
The popular scuba diving hotspot of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean has established a new world record for the greatest number of people to scuba dive simultaneously at the same location. |
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25 February 2006
Sharks could be more vulnerable to the fishing industry than was previously thought, research has revealed. Marine scientists led by Aberdeen University in Scotland have discovered that the deepest oceans of the world appear to be shark free. |
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24 February 2006
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said a team of its divers using information from local fishermen discovered a previously unknown pristine coral reef in January off Thailand's Phang-nga Province in the Andaman Sea |
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23 February 2006
There are at least 3,116 manatees in state waters, scientists announced Wednesday, eight days after they completed an aerial survey of the marine mammals, reports the Florida newspaper Sun Sentinel. |
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22 February 2006
One-third of New Zealand's offshore waters is going to be declared off-limits to bottom-trawlers. The announcement was made in Wellington at the end of a fisheries conference attended by delegates from 20 nations, reports the BBC |
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21 February 2006
A “bachelor pod” of juvenile male sperm whales is believed to have entered the North Sea, leading to four strandings in the past fortnight and raising fears that a variety of manmade factors may be causing them to lose their way. |
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20 February 2006
Greenland's glaciers are sliding towards the sea much faster than previously believed, scientists have told a conference in St Louis, US. It was thought the entire Greenland ice sheet could melt in about 1,000 years, but the latest evidence suggests that could happen much sooner. |
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19 February 2006
Recreational anglers may be getting more than they bargain for in the fish they hook, according to the international ocean conservation group Oceana. The group sampled fish for mercury levels at the 73rd annual Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo last July. |
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18 February 2006
An apocalyptic vision of life 1,000 years from now has been painted by a team of scientists studying the effect of global warming. If mankind does not put its house in order, temperatures could have risen by 15C and sea levels by more than 11 metres, reports The Times (UK) |
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17 February 2006
An underwater mountain that forms the world's third-largest atoll has the richest diversity of marine life ever found in the Caribbean, but scientists who explored the area in January say tanker traffic is damaging the unique ecosystem. |
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16 February 2006
Researchers are tracking two grey nurse sharks in the waters off south east Queensland in a bid to protect the endangered species.The researchers believe a fishing exclusion zone around where the sharks live is already helping the species and hope tracking data will aid protection measures. |
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15 February 2006
Hundreds of humphead wrasse were released back into the waters of the Bunaken National Marine Park after being confiscated from a fisherman who was intending to illegally sell the internationally-protected fish species abroad. |
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14 February 2006
Research into the effect of sound in the oceans on marine mammals should be commissioned by the British Government, a UK report recommends. The Inter-agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology says mammals are affected by many sounds, including sonar, oil exploration and shipping, reports the BBC |
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14 February 2006
Peter Benchley, whose first novel, "Jaws," sold 20 million copies and helped invent the Hollywood summer blockbuster film when Steven Spielberg made the tale of a bloodthirsty shark into a 1975 movie, has died. He was 65. Benchley, who became a conservationist expressed regret over portraying sharks as killing machines... |
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14 February 2006
Sharks moved in on Australia’s beaches yesterday in a massive feeding frenzy in which a man was bitten in just one foot of water. The 18-year-old was wading in the shallows when a shark gave him a leg wound which needed 11 stitches. |
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13 February 2006
A coral reef stands between Port Everglades and the booming export markets of Asia. as the port and the federal government plan to deepen and extend the 45-foot entrance channel to handle the huge cargo ships that call on Hong Kong, Shanghai and other Asian ports. |
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12 February 2006
Reports that whale meat is being sold as dog food in Japan shows the industry there is desperately trying to stay afloat, Greenpeace Australia says. Greenpeace says whaling in the Southern Ocean would end if Japan cut subsidies to the industry... |
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11 February 2006
Japan’s whaling fleet has survived international condemnation and hot pursuits by Greenpeace activists. But it may finally be sunk because the nation’s passion for whale meat has dimmed, reports The Times (UK) |
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10 February 2006
“The oil accident off the coast of Estonia shows that the Baltic Sea countries do not have effective oil spill response measures in place,” said Jari Luukkonen, WWF-Finland’s conservation director. |
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09 February 2006
The U.S. government has taken the first step toward listing the polar bear as a threatened species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Tuesday that protection may be warranted under the Endangered Species Act, triggering a review process that could lead to its listing. |
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08 February 2006
The agents of Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling vessel, the Farley Mowat, have written to the authorities asking that the detention order on the vessel be lifted immediately and that they be allowed to leave Cape Town harbour. |
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07 February 2006
Two Gray's beaked whales have died after stranding at Northland's Waipu Cove, despite some initial success getting them back to sea. Whangarei-based Conservation Department ranger David Thonig said six whales stranded on the beach at 12.45pm Saturday. |
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06 February 2006
Ten dead Irrawaddy dolphins have been found in Cambodia's Mekong River, eight of them calves, pushing one of the rarest cetaceans nearer extinction, the environmental group WWF International said. |
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06 February 2006
MARINE scientists say global warming could transform the Great Barrier Reef into a bleached maze of dead coral within 20 years.The warning comes amid bleaching over the summer near the Keppel Islands, which threatens to spread to large sections of the World Heritage-listed reef. |
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05 February 2006
An Israeli inventor has developed an underwater breathing system that literally squeezes oxygen directly from seawater, doing away with the need for compressed air tanks. He estimates that a fully functional prototype is about two years away, reports BBC News. |
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04 February 2006
A grounded tanker carrying nearly 5 million gallons of oil and gasoline was stable on Friday as crews in Alaska awaited high tide to try again to float the ship, the vessel‘s owner said. "At this time everything seems pretty stable. The integrity of the tanks is still sound," said spokesman Tim McKeand of Seacor Holdings Inc., owner of the tanker Seabulk Pride. |
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03 February 2006
Bleached coral wastelands could soon become new dive attractions as the Great Barrier Reef teeters on the brink of widespread bleaching in a new marketing approach being considered by worried Queensland tourism operators, reports News Agency AAP |
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02 February 2006
It seems that when it comes to fish, the answer is just not clear-cut. Last week saw the announcement that the world's tiniest fish and vertebrate had been found, measuring a mere 7.9mm, reports Rebecca Morelle, BBC News science reporter |
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01 February 2006
If you are planning a dive trip to the Red Sea (or even just dreaming of one), then you will be well advised to research the dive sites and marine life before you set off (or should that be ‘nod off’?) |
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01 February 2006
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been urged by leading environmental groups to increase the UK’s pressure on Japan to abandon its commercial whaling aims at the upcoming International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting.
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01 February 2006
A French tug is towing a stricken chemical tanker to Le Havre after a collision in the English Channel. French rescue teams are hoping to salvage the heavily-listing Ece before it sinks. Divers earlier said the 10,000 tonne load of phosphoric acid on the tanker was not leaking. |
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01 February 2006
THE world's worst fears about global warming and rapid sea-level rise will be realised or exceeded, according to two new reports. Australian climate change research published yesterday found the average level of the oceans had risen 19.5cm since 1870 and the rate was increasing. |
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