25 Years of International Coastal Cleanup – Tomorrow is the Day!
OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup has become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Nearly nine million volunteers from 152 countries and locations have cleaned 145 million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean on just one day each year. They have recorded...
Hawaii sailor finds message in bottle tossed in ocean from Japan 5 years ago
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii — A Japanese school girl’s note in a bottle dropped into the ocean five years ago has been found washed up on Hawaii’s shores. Petty Officer Jon Moore stumbled upon the clear glass bottle Thursday during a beach cleanup at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. (Associated Press) ...
Great profile of BlooSee executives in El Pais
El País recently profiled several technology executives, including two from BlooSee. El País (English: The Country) is the largest non-sports Spanish national daily newspaper with an average daily print circulation of almost 400,000.
10th Anniversary Sail for Pride to Benefit Veterans and Active Duty Servicemen and Women
Newport, RI – This Sunday, Sept. 11, on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S., Sail Newport along with the local sailing community will hold a race to commemorate the tenth anniversary of that fateful moment in history and to raise funds for wounded veterans and Rhode Island servicemen and women’s families. Two charities will...
Keeping up with the new Americas Cup yachts
Tony Hembrow, CEO of Rayglass Boats discusses a new boat designed for the Americas Cup yachts. ”…the new America’s Cup cats have such incredible acceleration and can reach such high speeds, we needed a Protector that could cruise at 30 knots and reach more than 50 knots when required.”…Read the article in the New Zealand Herald....
The Fascinating World of Underwater Gliders
An interview with ocean scientist Laura Rubiano-Gómez Underwater gliders are revolutionizing ocean research, allowing scientist to get more mileage -literally and figuratively- from their scarce research funds. Ocean scientist Laura Rubiano-Gómez is responsible for the operation, maintenance and deployment of a fleet of underwater gliders, a type of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) used in the acquisition of...
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...
Summer Sailstice 2011
BlooSee is proud to support a great sailing event open to anyone with access to any kind of sailboat, anywhere: the annual Summer Sailstice, held worldwide the weekend closest to the Summer solstice, which this years is June 18-19. We encourage all sailors on BlooSee to sign up here. Additionally, we request that you...
World Oceans Day
Happy World Oceans Day! Or is it? The truth is that our oceans, vast and beautiful as they may look, are in great peril. Global warming, acidification, contaminants, plastic pollution, overfishing, and other issues have put the great blue “on the verge of a cataclysmic decline”, as oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle says in her wonderful book The...
BlueMind Summit Livecast
* The Livecast has now ended* Find more information on this event at http://bit.ly/Blue_Mind The talks will be archived and links will be added here soon. How does the ocean affect our brain? Why does the sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste of the ocean set our souls at ease? How does our “brain on ocean” behave?...
Your Brain on Ocean: BlueMind
How does the ocean affect our brain? Why does the sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste of the ocean set our souls at ease? How does our “brain on ocean” behave? These questions and much more are the subject of the BlueMind Summit, the first conference in history to bring together leaders in neuroscience and...
