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Monterey Bay Whale Watching Hotel Packages

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

MONTEREY, Calif., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Few things are as thrilling as spotting the Earth's largest mammal at the ocean's surface. Families, couples, and friends can go on this exciting adventure and take advantage of Monterey Bay Inn's famous Whale Watching Package, including deluxe accommodations, continental breakfast, and the boat tour.

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  • Families, couples, and friends can go on this exciting adventure and take advantage of Monterey Bay Inn's famous Whale Watching Package, including deluxe accommodations, continental breakfast, and the boat tour.
  • Monterey Bay is one of the nation's top places for whale-watching and viewing abundant marine mammals and seabirds.
  • The 49-room Monterey Bay Inn on historic Cannery Row is adjacent to San Carlos Beach, near the Coast Guard Pier, Cannery Row Shopping, and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
  • Monterey Bay Inn is perfect for family getaways and romantic escapes—Monterey Bay Inn at 242 Cannery Row, Monterey, California 93940, www.montereybayinn.com .

'Humanity's signature': study finds plastic pollution in the world's lakes can be worse than in oceans

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

In a study released today, researchers sampled 38 lakes and reservoirs around the world, including in Australia, the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.

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  • In a study released today, researchers sampled 38 lakes and reservoirs around the world, including in Australia, the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.
  • Many lakes are already suffering from issues such as algal blooms, deoxygenation, over-extraction and drying.

The plastics problem

    • After plastics enter the environment, they generally break up and become smaller and smaller.
    • Lake water can sit for a long time without being flushed out, allowing plastics to accumulate.
    • We don’t yet know much about whether microplastics are absorbed by filter feeding organisms such as clams, mussels and zooplankton, and how plastics affect the food chain.

What we did

    • Surface waters were sampled in 38 lakes and reservoirs across 23 countries (mostly in the Northern Hemisphere) and six continents.
    • Importantly, we used a standardised collection and analysis method, including very fine plankton nets to sample the plastic debris.
    • This lake had three plastics particles per cubic metre, ranking it sixth worst among the 38 lakes sampled.
    • Read more:
      Whales and dolphins found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time

Where is the plastic coming from?

    • More than 90% of the plastic particles belonged to two shape categories: fibres and fragments.
    • The most common colour of plastic particle was black (30%), followed by transparent (24%), blue (18%) and white (13%).

So what next?

    • But our research confirms plastic concentrations in freshwater ecosystems can be higher than those in oceans.
    • Our results indicate that lakes play a major role in the global plastic cycle.
    • This points to an urgent need to develop management policies to reduce plastic pollution in freshwater lakes.

Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

In the novel, a supposedly indestructible vessel strikes an iceberg.

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  • In the novel, a supposedly indestructible vessel strikes an iceberg.
  • A man of untold wealth dreams of voyaging to the bottom of the sea, sharing with a select few passengers a glimpse of the mysteries of the deep.
  • He descends to the ocean floor in order to gawk at the wreckage of a great ship that sank years before.

Exploring the ‘seven seas’

    • A “league” (French “lieue”) was a measure that has been different lengths at different times in history.
    • In Melville’s novel, the great white whale rams the good ship Pequod and drags Captain Ahab to a watery death.
    • For Hardy, the claim that the Titanic was “unsinkable” is a prime example of human arrogance.

Unexplored depths

    • Indeed, it is often said that we know more about Mars than we do about the bottom of the sea.
    • The National Ocean Service reminds us that the seas cover more than two-thirds of the planet.
    • This fear is depicted in such haunting paintings as Théodore Géricault’s “The Raft of the Medusa” and J.M.W.
    • In our world of marine biodiversity loss, bleached coral and ocean acidification, we need positive as well as paranoid imaginings of the deep.

Among the first

    • It was only with the invention of the submarine that humans could reach more than a few feet below the surface of the waves.
    • In the 1620s the Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel descended into the River Thames in a bell-shaped submersible powered by oars, his oxygen supplied by setting fire to saltpeter.
    • His more immediate inspiration was the Plongeur, designed for the French navy in the early 1860s.
    • It reached a depth of 30 feet – or 9 meters – and could stay underwater for two hours.
    • Verne saw a model of it at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where he also learned about a recent discovery: the mechanical power of electricity.

The true origins of the world's smallest and weirdest whale

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Monday, July 10, 2023

The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the weirdest whale you’ve probably never heard of.

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  • The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the weirdest whale you’ve probably never heard of.
  • It is the smallest of the living baleen whales and restricted to the Southern Hemisphere.

You are what you eat?

    • Many scientists remained unconvinced, however, leading to decades of acrimonious debates over bones, fossils and molecules.
    • For more than a century, the case for Caperea being a right whale seemed sound.
    • The implications of this brief comparison are obvious: Caperea resembles right whales far more than it does rorquals, and so must have the same evolutionary origin.

Morphology versus molecules

    • Time and again, genes allied Caperea with rorquals, rather than right whales.
    • Just think of the streamlined bodies of sharks, whales and the extinct ichthyosaurs.
    • Fuelling the debate was the fact that only some of the DNA of Caperea had actually been sequenced.
    • Sometimes, key fossils can settle evolutionary debates, as happened in 2001 when two pivotal finds confirmed the origin of whales from hoofed mammals.

What our DNA testing revealed

    • Genomics studies all of an organism’s DNA – its entire molecular blueprint.
    • DNA ultimately determines body shape, so comparing genomes should either corroborate anatomical family trees or expose the effects of convergence.
    • Using a sample from a stranded individual from South Australia, we finally sequenced the genome of the pygmy right whale.

So what is Caperea really?

    • Proving that Caperea is not a right whale raises another question: why is it so unlike its rorqual cousins?
    • Molecular dating suggests it diverged from other whales at least 14 million years ago, and perhaps much earlier.
    • One possibility is that Caperea sprang from the cetotheriids, an ancient family of whales once thought to be extinct.
    • Many palaeontologists remain sceptical about this idea and instead have clung to the traditional grouping of Caperea with right whales.

Potential for 2 Million Low-Carbon BBL/d in Gulf of Mexico, an Industrial Info News Alert

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Oil & Gas Production Project Database can learn more from a detailed project report .

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  • Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Oil & Gas Production Project Database can learn more from a detailed project report .
  • Federal data through March show total offshore production in the U.S. territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico averaged 1.87 million BBL/d.
  • And while that represents only around 15% of total U.S. crude oil production, Gulf production has increased steadily since the 1980s.
  • Industrial Info finds production is up 150% from 1980s levels and by the 90s, output had reached 750,000 BBL/d.

Gravity Officially Launches Mobile Idle Relaxing Game ‘WITH: Whale In The High’ for the Global Region!

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Gravity (NASDAQ: GRVY), a global game company, opens its official global service for ‘ WITH: Whale In The High ’, a mobile relaxing idle game, on June 29th at 3 pm (KST, UTC+9).

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  • Gravity (NASDAQ: GRVY), a global game company, opens its official global service for ‘ WITH: Whale In The High ’, a mobile relaxing idle game, on June 29th at 3 pm (KST, UTC+9).
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230629405246/en/
    A Mobile relaxing idle game “WITH: Whale In The High” globally opens on June 29, at 3 PM (KST, UTC+9) (Graphic: Gravity)
    ‘WITH: Whale In The High (WITH)’ is a mobile relaxing idle game published by Gravity and developed by Skywalk, a mobile game developer.
  • In WITH, the main story unfolds after the main character, Wiz, winds up on the back of a whale by accident.
  • Users can decorate the Wiz village to their tastes with the main content such as hideout expansion and Wiz decoration while playing the game.

Lex Sant Joins Oceana’s Board of Directors

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oceana, the largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, announced today that Lex Sant, President of The Summit Foundation, has joined the organization’s Board of Directors.

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  • WASHINGTON, June 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oceana, the largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, announced today that Lex Sant, President of The Summit Foundation, has joined the organization’s Board of Directors.
  • “Lex brings to Oceana a wealth of knowledge and experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic spaces,” said Oceana CEO Andrew Sharpless.
  • His insight will help us continue to win critical victories for the oceans, our biggest ally in the fight against climate change.”
    “We are fortunate to have Lex join Oceana’s Board,” said Sam Waterston, Chair of Oceana’s Board of Directors.
  • He has extensive nonprofit board experience, including serving on the executive committee of the board at The Trust for Public Land and, previously, at The Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Global Underwater Acoustic Modems Market Report 2023: Sector is Expected to Reach $3.67 Billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 8.3% - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, June 26, 2023

The "Global Underwater Acoustic Modems Market Size, Share, Growth Analysis, By Range, By Application - Industry Forecast 2023-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "Global Underwater Acoustic Modems Market Size, Share, Growth Analysis, By Range, By Application - Industry Forecast 2023-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Underwater data and voice communications are sent and received using acoustic modems, sometimes known as underwater modems.
  • The global underwater acoustic modems market is segmented based on type, application, industry, and region.
  • Throughout the analysis period, these various variables will fuel the market's expansion and drive demand for underwater acoustic modems.

Government of Canada, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Miawpukek First Nation, Qalipu First Nation, and the town of Burgeo will work together to assess the feasibility of creating a new national marine conservation area

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Friday, June 23, 2023

"Establishing new marine protected areas in Canada is vital to reducing biodiversity loss and mitigating the impacts of climate change through nature-based action.

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  • "Establishing new marine protected areas in Canada is vital to reducing biodiversity loss and mitigating the impacts of climate change through nature-based action.
  • Today's announcement underscores the shared commitment of the Government of Canada, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Miawpukek First Nation, Qalipu First Nation, and the Town of Burgeo to assess the feasibility of creating a national marine conservation area in the South Coast Fjords region.
  • By working together, we can make Canada and the world healthier, more climate resilient and rich in biodiversity for the good of all."
  • Our Government is eager for this important work to begin and look forward to continued collaboration with our partners."

HELLO Labs Announces Bitget's Gracy Chen on Killer Whales Reality TV Show

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Reality TV show produced by HELLO Labs and co-produced by CoinMarketCap features an exciting lineup of judges alongside Bitget's Managing Director, Gracy Chen, and the biggest and boldest industry leaders

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  • Tortola, British Virgin Islands--(Newsfile Corp. - June 21, 2023) - HELLO Labs, a Web3 entertainment company, recently announced the Managing Director of Bitget, Gracy Chen, will join its reality TV show Killer Whales as a judge ahead of season one.
  • Reality TV show produced by HELLO Labs and co-produced by CoinMarketCap features an exciting lineup of judges alongside Bitget’s managing director, Gracy Chen, and the biggest and boldest industry leaders.
  • Gracy joined Killer Whales with some of the most notable individuals within the Web3 ecosystem as announced by HELLO Labs on Twitter.
  • The team behind Killer Whales hinted at global primetime television coverage for the show, as they work towards their original Hello TV app.