Howard Hall - underwater Fireworks!

Mobulas (M. eregoodootenkee?) in bait ball. Source.

OWOO continues to deliver.

Beautiful!
And here is an hommage to the unequaled Howard!
Enjoy!

Swimming with Polar Bears!

Source.

Cool.

Many, many years ago Bruno Vailati tried the same, and the shooter got nailed and grievously injured - don't try this at home!

One World One Ocean and Neil!

No bolts? Interesting tag attachment - Neil?

Great!

This would be two of my fave orgs working together!

Doesn't get much better that that!

Join the movement and view more stunning ocean content at One World one Ocean.

Check out how Dr. Neil Hammerschlag and his University Of Miami crew tag sharks in the Berry Islands, Bahamas to study their migration patterns and thus, better protect them. You can learn more about UM's shark conservation program and follow Berry The Tiger Shark here.
Special thanks to Summit Series, University Of Miami, Waitt Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Bamboo Sushi and citizen scientists for making this video possible. Learn more about Summit Series here.
Bamboo Sushi, the country's first sustainably certified sushi restaurant, and Summit Series raised and contributed more than $800,000 to help create the South Berry Island MPA.

Story here.

Enjoy!

OWOO - know your Seafood!

Great infographic - click for detail.

With one caveat.
"Up to 73 million Sharks" are certainly not all being finned!

Anyway, I continue to be a big fan of One World One Ocean.

Howard and Richard - Synergy!

Howard and Richard - great people!

Remember this post?

Well, here is the footage.
This being from Howard and very much as anticipated, it is simply brilliant. And it once again confirms that my pal Richard Pyle is utterly and certifiably nuts - no not for riding the outside of a submarine, but for having done so in utterly frigid water dressed in nothing more than a shirt and shorts!
But we knew that already didn't we - WARNING: profane! :)

Anyway, enjoy!



And here is Richard once again.
This is why I like and admire him do much!

Richard about Marine Taxonomy!

Richard is one of my pals.
And here is why.



Awesome!

Richard - bloody excellent!

Crazy stuff - Richard Pyle exploring the twilight zone. Pic by Howard Hall.

From the post.

Biodiversity is earth’s greatest library, and we have not matured enough as a species, as a civilization, to realize it yet.
Someday soon we will understand how to read the secrets contained within the Biodiversity Library. Unfortunately, we are on the brink of this planet’s sixth great extinction event, and each time a species goes extinct, it is like burning the last copy of a book. Once it is gone, the information it contained is lost forever.
Earth’s greatest library is burning.

And not only that: the librarians are going extinct!
Richard is one of them and of course none other than he of the squeaky voice - and if there was ever any doubt that he is utterly nuts, read his account of how he and Howard have ridden a submarine (notabene on the outside!) to quickly get to one of Cocos' submerged sea mounts! And in case you cannot discern it - he is STILL only wearing swim trunks!
Was it really me that was recently bemoaning the demise of the intrepid, and crazy explorers and adventurers? :)

Richards series of posts in the NYT is part of One World One Ocean.
As I said here, I'm very impressed by the project and I simply cannot wait to see Howard's cinematography that will undoubtedly eclipse everything else - as it always does!

Anyway, great job buddy!

Tip o'hat: MPO

Brilliant Marine Conservation PSA!

This is as good as it gets.

No wonder, it's been produced by the people around Greg MacGillivray of MacGillivray Freeman Films who have entertained us with wonderful IMAX productions for the past 30 years, notably also by Howard and Michele Hall.

One World One Ocean is a remarkable new venture supported by remarkable people and organizations, and I very much look forward to reporting about their future successes.

Enjoy!