Posts in category Environment

It’s a case of man hooks shark, shark bites man. Of course it’s all the shark’s fault, right? On Saturday, a fisherman on the Manhattan Beach Pier hooked a shark. …

They came from the murky, black depths. Just a few at first, followed by tens of millions. Their snake-like arms moved along the dark, sandy bottom toward the unsuspecting sunlit …

The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Broadcast annually since 1987, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming …

Just how many giant sea bass are there in southern California? You can help find the answer! Giant sea bass (we still like to call them black sea bass), Stereolepis gigas, were …

One of the lead news stories in northern California this week was on the dozens of sea lions which live at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf have suddenly disappeared. The large animals …

Although the International Court of Justice has ruled against them, whalers in Japan are continuing in their pursuit of whales as a part of a “research campaign”. Their recent trip is the first …

Working passionately for many years, a Los Angeles based group of scuba divers known as the Hardcore Dive Team is conducting current research dives for California Ships to Reefs (CSTR) in Santa …

I’ll admit, it was a thrill to have been invited out to Anacapa Island in September by Kurt Lieber and the Ocean Defenders Alliance (ODA) to observe them in action …

Long-time San Diego recreational and science divers Barbara Lloyd and Michael Bear have joined forces to establish an ocean conservation non-profit organization, called Ocean Sanctuaries, devoted to species conservation, ocean sustainability as …

At first glance it is hard to fathom that just last November one of the strongest typhoons to ever hit any continent occurred on this island nation of 7,100 islands …