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An Underwater Photographer's Guide To Antarctica
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Bartosz Strozynski guides us through diving in Antarctica from an underwater photographer's point of view
Jason Bradley Elephant Seal Photography Workshop - Wrap Up
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Photographing elephant seals with Jason Bradley
Day 1 Of Photographing Elephant Seals In California
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Some thoughts after a successful day at the Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery in Northern California.
Photographing Elephant Seals With Jason Bradley
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Matt Weiss joins Jason Bradley on his workshop on photographing elephant seals
Jason Bradley's Elephant Seal Photo Workshop
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One spot is left for Jason Bradley's Elephant Seal Workshop in San Simeon, California
An Underwater Photographer's Guide To Shooting Monk Seals In Niihau, Hawaii
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Jeremy Cuff photographs Hawaiian Monk Seals and more in Niihau, Hawaii's "Forbidden Island"
Mercury Levels in Arctic Seals Linked to Melting Ice
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Researchers in Canada are reporting for the first time that high mercury levels in certain Arctic seals appear to be linked to vanishing sea ice caused by global warming
Seals from Land to Ocean
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Canadian scientists have discovered a new fossil said to be the link of how seals evolved from land mammals
Call For Common Seal Shooting Ban
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An emergency ban on the shooting of common seals is needed to halt an "alarming" drop in their population, a Green MSP has claimed
Call For A Ban On Scotland's Seal Slaughter As Population Falls
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ANIMAL welfare groups have called for the Scottish Government to use new marine laws to put a stop to the killing of seals.
Saimaa Seal - Threatened
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Findland's Saimaa seal is under threat by fishing nets and climate change affecting their habitat
Greenland Hunters Waisting Seals
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Hunters in Greenland are throwing hunted seals in trash.
New Laws To Protect Marine Mammals In Australia
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New laws in Australia are meant to better protect marine mammals.
Southern Seals Sample Salty Seas
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Elephant seals are helping scientists study temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean
Nigel Barker Shoots The Seal Hunt For The Humane Society
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In the wake of environmental decline and man's impact on the earth, and the ocean, there are several marine mammal hunts, including international whaling, and the dolphin slaughter in Japan,that...
Great White Shark Filmed Breaching at Night
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Although seals are a common meal for great white sharks, under the cover of darkness, one might expect the marine mammals to catch a break
Fishing Flotsam Endangers Marine Life
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But a closer look unveils an ugly truth. The fur seal rookeries of St. Paul are an unintentional dumping ground for tonnes of debris, from plastic bottles and tires to netting and rope in which...
Record Number of Gray Seal Babies on Helgoland
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Last year, 32 Atlantic gray seals were born on the German island of Helgoland. It was a record, until 55 more showed up this year
Why Deep-Diving Mammals Don't Black Out
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Some seals and dolphins can hold their breath underwater for a cheek-popping hour or more without passing out from lack of oxygen.
Definitely don't try this at home. Humans can't make it more...
Sunken Antarctic cruise ship leaves oil spill, threatening 2,500 penguins
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About 2,500 penguins en route to their Antarctic mating grounds could be sickened by a diesel fuel spill from a Canadian cruise ship that struck an iceberg and sank last week.
A marine biologist...
Trial Of Seal Hunt Observers Threatens Right To Witness Annual Slaughter
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Five defendants are set to stand trial in the Magdalen Islands Thursday, accused of violating their observation permits during the 2006 East Coast seal hunt. The defendants are representatives of...
Dutch Government To Ban Trade In Seal Products
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The Dutch government has informed Namibia's Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources that it will ban all imports and trade in seal products by the end of this year.
The Dutch Minister...
Mysterious Seal Deaths Linked To Chems
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It's a great irony of the modern world that attempts to make us safer sometimes make us less so.
Fire causes billions of dollars in damage every year and kills thousands. Plastic items like...
Campaigner 'prepared For Jail' Over Seal Cull Film
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A fur trade campaigner from Nottingham has said he would rather go to jail than pay a fine after being accused of breaching an exclusion zone to film a seal cull in Canada.
Mark Glover, of the...
Seaweed Critical To Creatures' Survival
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Kelp is really the largest form of algae, known as brown algae, and it really isn't dangerous despite my reaction at the time. Other marine algae include green and red varieties, and all algae...
Fishing Polar Bear Confirms Inuit Legend
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Inuit people of the Arctic have always known about it, but no outsiders have witnessed it for 200 years: a polar bear fishing. Not by scooping the fish out of the water like a brown bear - but by...
Alien Intrusions Threaten Sweden's Seas
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A gluttonous American pseudo-jellyfish, giant Japanese oysters, and an unidentified virus killing seals: strange intrusions are threatening Sweden's seas and fishermen are concerned.
The biggest...
Hawaii Seals, Reefs To Get Help From Above
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A kite-sized, unmanned airplane is joining the effort to protect endangered Hawaiian monk seals and coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Managers of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine...
Scientists Baffled By Arrival Of Rare Seals
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TARONGA ZOO marine specialists are fighting to save the life of the second Antarctic leopard seal to be washed up on a Sydney beach in a week.
Found stranded yesterday morning at Clontarf, the...
Increase In Fish Brings Huge Leap In Marine Mammals
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Dolphins, seals and porpoises could soon become a far more common sight along the Thames, scientists said today.
More than 100 of the sea mammals have been spotted in the river over the last...
Hawaiian Monk Seal Decline 'unacceptable'
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To help boost the declining population of Hawaiian monk seals, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service implemented a new recovery plan yesterday for this critically...
Seals Wired To Collect Deep-Sea Data
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Sea creatures dwelling in the freezing waters at the bottom of the world hold many secrets, including clues to growing changes in global climate.
Now one of the top predators in these waters...
Fatal Virus Threatens Seal Colony
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Phocine distemper virus (PDV) wiped out half of northern Europe's seal population in 1998.
Conservationists from the Exploris seal sanctuary at Portaferry said PDV has been confirmed in seals...
Penguins Changed Diet Due To Whaling, Study Suggests
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Extensive whale and seal hunting in Antarctica over the past 200 years appears to have triggered a shift in the diet of AdA??’A‚A©lie penguins, a new study suggests.
The seabirds abandoned fish...
El Nino Seals Sea Lions' Fate
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Climate change could be killing Australian sea lion pups, new research shows.
This became clear after a study into the lifespan of Australian sea lions found that pups had much less chance of...
Stop the Seal Slaughter - Boycott Canadian Products
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March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
Rubber Whale Helps Train Rescuers
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A lifesize two-tonne pilot whale, made of rubber, is helping to train groups of marine rescue volunteers in Gwynedd.
The course in Barmouth is being run with groups involved in rescuing seals and...
Seals Victims Of Deadly Distemper Virus
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Authorities in Denmark's Veterinary Medicine Institute on Sunday confirmed that dead seal pups washed ashore on the island of Anholt had fallen victim to the same viral strain of distemper which...
Study: El Nino Boosts Marine Debris Risks For Monk Seals
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A scientific study showed that endangered Hawaiian monk seals get trapped in marine debris more frequently during El Nino years than other years.
El Nino refers to a warming of the tropical...
NOAA Eyes Shark Kill To Rescue Monk Seals
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Federal scientists desperate to save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal from extinction want permission to kill Galapagos sharks that have been attacking and killing young seals in the Northwestern...
DNA Reveals Hooded Seals Have Wanderlust
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Researchers have discovered a new fact about hooded seals, a mysterious 200 to 400 kilogram mammal that spends all but a few days each year in the ocean.
An international team of researchers...
Reminder: End The Seal Hunt By Using Your Buying Power
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With over 177,222 harp seals and seal babies slaughtered to date, it seems like things couldn't get much worse in Canada. Yet, brutality witnessed on the ice this month by the seal hunt observation...
Fantasea Housings For Coolpix L10, L11 And P5000
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Fantasea Line has created a totally new housing design, featuring full function controls, improved and stronger construction and double O-ring seals on all command control buttons, which are now...
Hundreds Of Dead Seals Washed Up On Kazakhstan Coast
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Hundreds of dead seals, most of them pups, have been found on the Caspian Sea coast of western Kazakhstan but the cause of their death was unclear, the Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.
A...
Over A Dozen Sealing Ships Lost In The Ice
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The crews from over a dozen sealing ships have been removed from their damaged vessels by the Canadian Coast Guard. In total, nearly one hundred small sealing vessels remain trapped in rafting ice...
Navy Shows Off Its Terror-Fighting Dolphins
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In a world of high-tech sensors and underwater robotics, Koa the bottlenose dolphin and others like her may still be the U.S. Navy's best line of defense against terrorists in scuba gear....
End The Seal Hunt By Using Your Buying Power!
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Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian...
Controversal Seal Hunt Delayed Due To Ice Breakup
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Thin ice is killing baby seals in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence by the thousands and forcing the delay of the area's annual harp seal hunt for the second year in a row.
The controversial...
Lack Of Ice Set To Kill Start Of Canada Seal Hunt
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The first stage of Canada's controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal...
Stop The Canadian Seal Slaughter
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March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
Paul Nicklen Wins 1st Place In POYi Natural History Category
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Paul Nicklen on his winning Leopard Seal shot - "A leopard seal was frustrated that I would not accept her offered penguin. Blowing bubbles is a threat display but she never appeared...
Global Warming Puts Harp Seal Pups At Risk
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Global warming is making it harder for newborn harp seals to survive in the Gulf of St Lawrence and off Newfoundland in Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare reported on Friday....
Albino Seal To Go Back To The Sea
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The seal was washed up on a beach near Sutton-on-Sea in December.
Staff at the Natureland Seal Sanctuary in Skegness have nursed the seal, which they have called Whitebeam, back to full health....
Seals, Sea Lions, Satellites Help Map Ocean
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Don't let the sleepy gaze fool you. This elephant seal (top) is one of the hardest working oceanographers on NASA's team.
Seals, sea lions, sharks, and other marine predators are taking part in...
Northern Fur Seal Pup Estimates Decline
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America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday. The number of pups born between 2004 and 2006 in Alaska's Pribilof Islands,...
Sea & Sea Announces Important DX-5D Housing Retrofit
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SEA&SEA produces the most advanced and rugged SLR housings and underwater photography equipment on the market. However, our Service Division has become aware of an issue with the DX-5D...
Seal Pups Suffer In Storms Off Irish Coast
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A seal sanctuary in Northern Ireland is running to full capacity trying to deal with newborn grey seal pups rescued from winter storms. Exploris, the Northern Ireland aquarium and sea sanctuary,...
Seals' Huge Appetite Puts Penguin Lives At Risk
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Once hunted almost to extinction for their beautiful pelts, the fur seal has staged one of the animal kingdom's greatest comebacks. Previously in danger of being seen only in zoos and wildlife...
Pentax K10D Review
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Announced on September 14th 2006, just in time for Photokina 2006 the new K10D is Pentax's first foray into the serious-amateur digital SLR market. It's bigger, tougher and more feature rich than...
Seals' Meals Revealed
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New information about what Hawaiian monk seals eat could help wildlife managers in their quest to save the species from extinction, federal scientists said yesterday.
Tiny blubber samples taken...
UK Sealife Watchers' Code Launched
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Britian's first marine wildlife watching code, developed by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), was launched yesterday by Rhona Brankin, the deputy environment minister.
Scotland's rugged...
Endangered Monk Seals Star In National Geo Special
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Critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals will star in their own National Geographic special tomorrow night on public television.
"Hawaiian Monk Seals: Surviving Paradise" is a chance...
Update: Please Boycott Canadian Seafood And Products
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Canada's commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world.
Canada's 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial...
Pirates, Vacuum-fishing Threaten Antarctic Waters
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Pirates seeking Chilean sea bass and fishing vessels that vacuum up tiny shrimp-like creatures that are a staple for whales, seals and penguins are menacing Antarctic waters, environmentalists said...
Learning About Hypoxia From Hooded Seals
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Willy recently brought us the sniper of the sea and today I present the arctic Hooded Seal and its ability to survive extreme cold at depths more than 3000 feet.
Scientists have found these...
Shooting Of Pregnant Seals Sparks Outrage
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ANIMAL welfare groups called yesterday for tougher laws after five seals, four of them pregnant, were found shot dead on a beach in Scotland.
Police were urged to investigate the deaths in Orkney...
Rare Fur Seals Reclaim Place On Farallon Islands
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A marine mammal that disappeared from California's North Coast more than 170 years ago has returned in force to the Farallon Islands.
The Farallones once supported hundreds of thousands of...
Race On To Stem Decline Of Seals
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In a brightly lit room tucked among the rambling old buildings of the Bishop Museum, Ken Longenecker is sifting through a pile of tiny fish bones.
The zoologist's task is tedious and the smell...
Marine Biologists Puzzled By Stray Mammals Off N.J. Coast
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Hooded seals, bottlenose whales and a manatee have been spotted in the waters of the northeastern U.S., leaving marine biologists puzzled as to why they have strayed from their natural habitats....
Ban "lay Nets" To Save Hawaii's Coral Reefs
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The Hawaiian Islands have 84 percent of all coral reef area under U.S. jurisdiction. The main Hawaiian Islands have 15 percent and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 69 percent.
Reefs are the...
Namibian Seal Cull Is 'genocide'
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More than 60 000 seals are being culled in Namibia, sparking an international outcry from conservation bodies and animal rights activists, which have called the hunt genocide...
Turtle Rescued From Certain Death
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A female loggerhead turtle is enjoying an unexpected holiday at the Two Oceans Aquarium after being rescued from certain death while trapped in a large section of floating fishing net.
But three...
Friends Of Animals Tells Tourists, "Boycott Canada Now, 'Til Seal Hunt Stops"
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With Canada preparing to go full-speed ahead on its annual seal hunt, Friends of Animals today unveiled an international tourism boycott to press the Canadian government to stop the kill....
Cathy Kangas Offers Canada $16 Million To End Seal Hunt
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Last year the Canadian seal slaughter realized $16 million in income to East Coast seal killers.
This year, Sea Shepherd member and supporter Kathy Kangas has offered $16 million to compensate...
Help Stop Canada's Seal Hunt
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Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed or shot without mercy this year alone-an annual harp seal slaughter subsidized by the Canadian government.
95% of the harp seals killed are...
Winter Storm Kills Hundreds Of Grey Seal Pups
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Hundreds of grey seal pups nursing on Pictou Island, N.S. were killed Wednesday when a tidal surge washed them out to sea.
Newborn pups are unable to swim and despite their mothers' desperate...
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer And Viewer For Windows XP
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The Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer provides the ability to view, organize, and print photos captured in RAW image formats from supported Canon and Nikon digital cameras.
Hawaii creates state marine refuge in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, bans fishing
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Hawaii has banned fishing around the tiny islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, home to endangered Hawaiian monk seals and sea turtles.
Gov. Linda Lingle signed the new rules...
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