Posts tagged ocean
Play And Tumble
Nothing is personal; everything is personal.
Australia’s oceans could supply 10 percent of the country’s electricity by 2050.
Pretty much what I’ve wanted to do for a week or so.
(Source: planneddisguises, via untitled-mag)
This is pretty crazy.
What would it be like to swim down through the estimated 100 million tons of trash swirling around in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Mandy Barker’s photographs bring viewers probably as close as they’d ever want to come to finding out.
See the rest here: Swim Down Through a Sea of Trash With Dramatic, Eerily Beautiful Photos by Mandy Barker
"El Calamar Gigante"
Like all marine creatures, giant squid face the double whammy of warming water and ocean acidification (more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere drives a decrease in seawater pH). This can make it harder for all cephalopods — squid and their relatives — to breathe. …
But to Guerra, the greatest threat to the giant squid is fishing. No one catches giant squid on purpose — their flesh is unpalatable — but trawl nets bring them up anyway. Discarded at sea, these carcasses may later be washed ashore.
