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Aya K
Trad climber
Boulder, CO!
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Jan 16, 2015 - 10:42am PT
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 16, 2015 - 11:25am PT
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Thanks McHale's Navy! I had no idea....
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 16, 2015 - 11:43am PT
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cool kev. I've been grinding away at sorting images and video.
why are we talking via the taco?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 16, 2015 - 02:39pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 16, 2015 - 03:53pm PT
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hay there, say, pyro ... and lynne...
say here is a link with neat pics of lave, undersea, etc... just stuff i thought might be fun to check out, here...
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVvW0oblUPVQAf3AlnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=lava+formations+on+the+sea+floor&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
NOW THIS IS NEAT--a specificate place...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimini_Road
this stuff is so neat, like the underground caves,
as to underwater cliffs:
say, if there was no water, climbers would climb them,,,
above sea shore:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVj_8pblUixkAJZslnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=undersea+cliffs&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 18, 2015 - 07:51pm PT
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Channel Islands Califonia my favorite place!
Thanks for the awesome read Neebee.
Nature what became of Aya's Marlin.. WOW!
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Aya K
Trad climber
Boulder, CO!
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Jan 18, 2015 - 11:26pm PT
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We let the crew keep the marlin - it's really how they make any money on the charters. After all, what was I going to do? Stuff it and bring it back to Boulder?
No worries, there were still a bunch of live mackerel in the bait well, so we took them home and had them for dinner, and also took about 10 lbs? more? of ahi and had that as poke and sashimi, as well as grilled, a couple of days later. With 8 of us eating the ahi, there was still a bunch leftover. LEFTOVER AHI!?!?!
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 19, 2015 - 07:12am PT
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Cool thread!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2015 - 09:44am PT
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took a shot of a hunter underwater catalina
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jan 19, 2015 - 10:07am PT
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hashbro
Trad climber
Mental Physics........
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Jan 19, 2015 - 10:12am PT
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/science/earth/study-raises-alarm-for-health-of-ocean-life.html?_r=0
Environment
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
JAN. 15, 2015
Carl Zimmer
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them.
“We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.
But there is still time to avert catastrophe, Dr. McCauley and his colleagues also found. Compared with the continents, the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health.
“We’re lucky in many ways,” said Malin L. Pinsky, a marine biologist at Rutgers University and another author of the new report. “The impacts are accelerating, but they’re not so bad we can’t reverse them.”
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Scientific assessments of the oceans’ health are dogged by uncertainty: It’s much harder for researchers to judge the well-being of a species living underwater, over thousands of miles, than to track the health of a species on land. And changes that scientists observe in particular ocean ecosystems may not reflect trends across the planet.
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Transplanted coral off Java Island, Indonesia. Great damage results from the loss of habitats like coral reefs, an analysis found. Credit Aman Rochman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Dr. Pinsky, Dr. McCauley and their colleagues sought a clearer picture of the oceans’ health by pulling together data from an enormous range of sources, from discoveries in the fossil record to statistics on modern container shipping, fish catches and seabed mining. While many of the findings already existed, they had never been juxtaposed in such a way.
A number of experts said the result was a remarkable synthesis, along with a nuanced and encouraging prognosis.
“I see this as a call for action to close the gap between conservation on land and in the sea,” said Loren McClenachan of Colby College, who was not involved in the study.
There are clear signs already that humans are harming the oceans to a remarkable degree, the scientists found. Some ocean species are certainly overharvested, but even greater damage results from large-scale habitat loss, which is likely to accelerate as technology advances the human footprint, the scientists reported.
Coral reefs, for example, have declined by 40 percent worldwide, partly as a result of climate-change-driven warming.
Some fish are migrating to cooler waters already. Black sea bass, once most common off the coast of Virginia, have moved up to New Jersey. Less fortunate species may not be able to find new ranges. At the same time, carbon emissions are altering the chemistry of seawater, making it more acidic.
“If you cranked up the aquarium heater and dumped some acid in the water, your fish would not be very happy,” Dr. Pinsky said. “In effect, that’s what we’re doing to the oceans.”
Fragile ecosystems like mangroves are being replaced by fish farms, which are projected to provide most of the fish we consume within 20 years. Bottom trawlers scraping large nets across the sea floor have already affected 20 million square miles of ocean, turning parts of the continental shelf to rubble. Whales may no longer be widely hunted, the analysis noted, but they are now colliding more often as the number of container ships rises.
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Mining operations, too, are poised to transform the ocean. Contracts for seabed mining now cover 460,000 square miles underwater, the researchers found, up from zero in 2000. Seabed mining has the potential to tear up unique ecosystems and introduce pollution into the deep sea.
The oceans are so vast that their ecosystems may seem impervious to change. But Dr. McClenachan warned that the fossil record shows that global disasters have wrecked the seas before. “Marine species are not immune to extinction on a large scale,” she said.
Until now, the seas largely have been spared the carnage visited on terrestrial species, the new analysis also found.
The fossil record indicates that a number of large animal species became extinct as humans arrived on continents and islands. For example, the moa, a giant bird that once lived on New Zealand, was wiped out by arriving Polynesians in the 1300s, probably within a century.
But it was only after 1800, with the Industrial Revolution, that extinctions on land really accelerated.
Humans began to alter the habitat that wildlife depended on, wiping out forests for timber, plowing under prairie for farmland, and laying down roads and railroads across continents.
Species began going extinct at a much faster pace. Over the past five centuries, researchers have recorded 514 animal extinctions on land. But the authors of the new study found that documented extinctions are far rarer in the ocean.
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Jan 19, 2015 - 12:32pm PT
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Spinners in Hawai'i
Humpies in The Silver Bank, Dominican Republic
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2015 - 02:46pm PT
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L that's awesome good to cya..!
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Jan 20, 2015 - 07:10am PT
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Thanks Pyro!
Always love your threads. Beaches, rock and ocean. What could be better?
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10b4me
climber
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Jan 20, 2015 - 07:17am PT
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 21, 2015 - 02:07pm PT
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2015 - 09:31pm PT
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2015 - 06:46am PT
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Here is video that I shared on Facebook and youtube.
celebration of the ocean by watching whales...
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2015 - 06:13am PT
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fun day at the beach..
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