World’s oldest sailor finishes 3 year circumnavigation
Posted on 19 September 2011 by Jon Amtrup Minoru Saito (77 years and 8 months) thought he was going on a record fast solo the wrong way around the world when he left. But he returned to Japan three years and an earthquake, two tsunamis, a knee operation, giant icebergs, towering waves and five typhoons...
Indian Ocean study seeks climate clues
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’re joining an international effort to learn how global weather patterns are influenced by tropical weather brewing in the Indian Ocean. The six-month field research will use aircraft, ships, moorings, radar, numerical models and other tools to study how weather systems arise in the Indian Ocean and...
The Fish are shrinking!
19 September 2011 Fish shrinkage probed in lab Scientists are starting a novel project to investigate whether overfishing alters fish behaviour and changes their pattern of development. Overexploitation of stocks has already been shown to select for smaller fish. A team reporting at the meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology in Germany will deliberately...
Leaders launch new shark conservation effort
NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Bahamas, Colombia, Honduras, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, and Palau Commit to More Sanctuaries; International Action Leaders from eight countries launched an initiative today to prevent the extinction of sharks, symbolizing the latest development in the growing movement to safeguard the ocean’s top predator. Members of...
Surfing evolution onward and upward
Yesterday’s action at the Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles was a demonstration of why surfing can but never will join the likes of professional football, basketball and baseball. The progression and innovation in surfing creates a constantly evolving (for the better) bit of entertainment, but in the end, who wins and how they do so is still...
BlooSee Redesigned
Experience the all new BlooSee.com! BlooSee.com has been completely redesigned and upgraded. Not only the looks are nicer: a lot of hard work has gone into improving the back-end to prepare BlooSee for a major feature expansion. This is a summary of the main improvements: Improved site structure and design. Improved usability and consistency. Improved...
Updated BlooSee iPhone App
BlooSee is proud to offer the only free iPhone app to put at your fingertips nautical charts (North America, Brazil, New Zealand and South Pacific) and live wind conditions and wind forecasts for the whole world, layered over our BlooSee map of the world. BlooSee’s app is really intuitive to use. In fact, its user interface...
