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Attack of the Jellyfish
August 05 , 2008
Blue patrol boats cruise along the coastline of beaches huge nets skimming the water's surface. The flag is now blue- an unfamiliar color to many in beach safety, but warns of jellyfish.
Jellyfish swarm
Within only 2 weeks, 300 people on
Barcelona 's bustling beaches were treated for stings, and 11 were taken to hospitals.
Across the world, and appearing now in places unseen before, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, forcing beaches to close and clogging fishing nets.
While jellyfish invasions are a nuisance to swimmers and a hardship to fishermen, for scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining health of the world's oceans.
"These jellyfish near shore are a message the sea is sending us saying, 'Look how badly you are treating me,' " said Josep-Maria Gili, one of the world's leading jellyfish experts, who has studied them at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona for more than 20 years.
The increase is affected by numerous factors: severe overfishing of natural predators such as tuna, sharks and swordfish; rising sea temperatures caused in part by global warming; and pollution that has depleted oxygen levels in coastal shallows.
Within the past year, there have been beach closings because of jellyfish swarms on the in France, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and at Waikiki and Virginia Beach in the .
Then there is rising level of ocean pollution, which reduces oxygen levels and visibility in coastal waters. While other fish die in or avoid waters with low oxygen levels, many jellyfish can thrive in them. And while most fish need to see to catch their food, jellyfish, which filter food passively from the water, can dine in total darkness.
Yet another reason to help keep our beaches and oceans clean!
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Hawaii Gains National Monument Status
August 05 , 2008
1200 miles of uninhabited islands and atolls 1,200 miles northwest of the main
Hawaiian Islands have recently gained National Monument status.
Hawaian National Marine Monument
President Bush declared the area now known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Island Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve to national-monument status. This gives the region the strongest legal protections, with fishing and commercial operations being phased out over the next five years and visitors primarily limited to scientific researchers.
"It's the ocean equivalent of Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon all rolled into one," says Joshua Reichert, director of the environmental program of the Pew Charitable Trusts in
Philadelphia .
The area comprises 140,000 square miles of ocean dotted with dozens of coral reefs and tiny islands; it is a 1,400-mile-long, 100-mile-wide swath of pristine marine habitat larger than all national parks combined.
The islands and surrounding waters and atolls are nesting and breeding site to more than 14 million seabirds and home to 7,000 marine and terrestrial species, with over 25% of them found nowhere else in the world.
The area is home to the threatened Hawaiian green sea turtle and also home to the last Hawaiian monk seals, of which only 1,300 remain. The coral reefs of the region provide vital breeding and nursery habitat for numerous fish and other marine species. The area is also home to numerous ancient Hawaiian religious and archeological sites.
Bush had been expected to turn the reserve into a marine sanctuary, a process that had been underway for the past five years. The sanctuary will now be overseen and administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Although most of the islands will be closed to all but scientific researchers, a public visitation center will be created at
Midway Islands , the scene of an important World War II battle, using old military buildings to accommodate groups of visitors.
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New Featuers
August 26 , 2007
New Features on SplashVision
Coming this week on SplashVision!
Vessels for Sale and Charter
SplashVision has been hard at work bringing you the tools you asked for. Now it is easier then ever to showcase your listings on SplashVision. Offering full streaming Video and Photo Player services to represent your listing properly and effectively. Only SplashVision has cutting edge technology for the representation of your personal or your client's vessels. We did not stop here either, we have included an advanced listing form so your listings are clearly represented with detail. There is no place on the web which provides cutting technology and flexibility to get your vessel sold. Oh, and did we say it's free!
If you your a Broker or have many vessels available and would like to become a charter member of SplashVision, send us a message . Becoming a charter member will ensure you and your organization a lifetime of special terms and privleges. Email us; you'll be glad you did.
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Cool new Photo Player
Check out the new Photo Player above. You don't have any videos and feel left out, no problem. You can now upload all your photos and our Photo Player will automatically process them to be viewed as a slide show. Yes you can now save your favorite photos in a secure place and use our cool Photo Player to view them. View the Photo Player page and see how cool this feature is.
Batch Uploading
Now for those of you who were looking for a secure easy way to share all your photos we now have one. Yep that's right, you can now upload up to 100 photos at one time and share them privately with friends and family or publicly with the SplashVision community. The batch loaders are fantastic. You can select your photos one by one or save them to a zip file and upload all of them in one shot. This is the fastest and easiest way to share tons of photos. Visit Upload for more details.
As always, we invite you to share your feedback with us. Feel free to leave a comment, post a video or photo or send an email.
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