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The biggest seal rescuing center in Europe, the WEC, might have to close because of financial issues. PLEASE HELP! Just share, sign the petition, donate if you’re rich!

edit; yeah so idk how to delete the links in the title I rarely post on Reddit

https://theconversation.com/antarcticas-ice-loss-is-locked-in-and-extra-snowfall-wont-save-it-thats-bad-news-for-low-lying-coastal-areas-elsewhere-293066

I've spent literally hundreds of hours follwing this Jackfish school around the reef at Sipadan. It's so mesmerising. Full Video is here - youtube.com/channel/UCdlUTVLxXi_Fq072j2GbAeA/

This video is a visualization of a dataset of 16,000+ whale calls observed and mapped in Monterey Bay from October 28 to November 9, 2025. These 13 days are compressed here into about 4 minutes, including slow-downs during which you can hear the observed sounds from various species. This is an example of the use of a new tool; a Localizing Passive Acoustic Monitoring (L-PAM) system called SonarPoint. While underwater acoustic tracking has long been practiced on fixed, cabled tracking ranges operated by the U.S. Navy and others, SonarPoint is compact and wireless, consisting of a set of short (\~10m) seafloor mounted moorings that are recovered via an integrated acoustic release. In our most recent deployment called LMR 2, we deployed and calibrated/surveyed a seven-mooring system 25 miles from shore in water depth from 500m to 1450m over an 11 hour workday port-to-port. Recovery took about 9.5 hours. The maximum persistence of this system with continuous recording is about 14 months, supporting full year observation of cetaceans in remote locations. A system consisting of an inner array of five moorings surrounded by an outer array of six moorings will monitor an area of about 800 square km. This work is sponsored by the U.S. Navy NAVFAC Living Marine Resources (LMR) program under contract N39430-22-C-2428 and operations in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary were conducted under permit MBNMS-2024-033.

Turtles - they eat, sleep and go to the spa.... and sleep there too. Full video here - Turtle Spa

..Humans killed an estimated 2.9 million whales globally between 1900 and 1999 alone, marking the largest animal cull by total biomass in human history.

..Global blue whale numbers crashed by 97% to 98.5%, dropping from roughly 340,000 individuals down to just around 5,000 remaining.

..The North Atlantic right whale was reduced to a tiny fraction of its historical population and still hovers around 400 or fewer individuals today, making it critically endangered.

The human race has a dismal track record when it comes to managing our Greed.

Estaba revisando material sobre exploración oceánica y encontré una diferencia que cambia bastante cómo entendía el problema.

Según Seabed 2030, el 28,7% del fondo oceánico ya estaba cartografiado con tecnología moderna en abril de 2026. Sin embargo, NOAA estima que hemos observado visualmente menos del 0,001% del fondo del océano profundo.

Un sonar multihaz puede reconstruir la forma del fondo marino desde un barco y producir mapas extremadamente útiles. Pero conocer la topografía de una región no equivale a haber observado sus organismos, interacciones o cambios a través del tiempo.

Me pregunto si uno de los problemas de la exploración oceánica no es solamente cuánto podemos alcanzar, sino cuánto tiempo podemos permanecer observando.

Gran parte de la oceanografía profunda funciona mediante expediciones: barcos, ROV, sensores, muestras y ventanas limitadas de observación. Después nos vamos y el sistema continúa funcionando sin nosotros.

Por eso me resulta interesante la idea detrás de PROTEUS, el hábitat submarino que el grupo de Fabien Cousteau pretende desarrollar en Curaçao. Me interesa el cambio de método que representa: convertir algunos lugares del océano de destinos de expedición en lugares de observación persistente.

Una instalación persistente podría empezar a revelar : cómo cambia una comunidad biológica, cómo varía la química durante semanas o cómo se relacionan acontecimientos que normalmente registramos en expediciones separadas.

No sé si los hábitats humanos serán finalmente la mejor solución; quizá redes autónomas de sensores y robots terminen siendo mucho más eficientes.

¿qué descubrimientos importantes seguimos perdiendo porque no podemos observarlo continuamente durante suficiente tiempo?

This is a collection of some of my best coral reef shots from the past few years of filming. Most are from the island of Pulau Sipadan in Malaysia.