Squid Force

Sauce, Stick, SarDean, Steve Harring, maybe Dickie Vocals and more skating Monmouth County some time in the early 80’s. These guys are as punk as they come.

From Olliegrind. Killer NJ Skate footage.

Bonus Underdog video… (more…)

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Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien shared this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery and development of green fluorescent protein. Besides being useful in medical research, the protein is strangely beautiful found in jellyfish.

Read Wall Street Journal Article Here.

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Pretty amazing that these creatures are doing this sort of thing. Amazing…Truly Amazing.

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For those of you who have been following the saga of the white shark that the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently released, there is another chapter. Just a couple of days after he gained his freedom the SAME white shark was captured again by a fisherman off of the California cost. The little fella (4.5 ft, 55lb) was caught by the tail in a net that was set to catch thresher sharks. The fisherman saw the radio tag on it and immediately called the aquarium to see what he should do. The scientists asked him to give him the once-over and release him. A cursory inspection reveled that he was in great shape and that it looked like he had recently eaten, which is good because he was released following eleven days without food.

I have friends like this (you know who you are): They get out of jail in the morning for drunk driving the night before, go out get drunk again, and then pulled over that afternoon behind the wheel!

Hopefully, he stays out of trouble for a while.

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Well, it happened again. The five-foot long white shark that the Monterey Bay Aquarium was housing in their facility wasn’t doing well so they released it. It is very common for white sharks in captivity to stop eating and display other stress-related behaviors. I think that one only lasted eleven days.
Better luck next time

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As most ocean people know, the Coriolis effect is primarily responsible for the circulation of hurricanes and other pressure systems here on earth, but there is a whole host of other areas of our amphibious lives that are affected by it as well.

This phenomenon is also responsible for:
- the rotation of large and small scale ocean currents like the Gulf Stream
- drastic ocean water temperature changes at the beach
- good visibility/ bad visibility for diving
- tidal height in bays and other small bodies of water
- and whole bunch of other situations that involve moving fluids on a rotating planet.

Understanding how it works will allow you to… (more…)

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photo of a moses sole.

When I was a tyke, sharks were my thing (they’re still my thing for that matter.) I had the best collection of books on sharks that I have ever seen, even to this day. So you can imagine in 1982, when I was fourteen, the ground breaking National Geographic special on sharks came out, I was pretty stoked. Coincidentally, VCR’s became popular about that same year. I recorded that show and watched it over and over and over again. I was so much of a dork that I use to take notes so that didn’t miss anything. My fathers shark fishing buddies would even call me on the telephone to ask me things like “Do M80’s really work to attract sharks?” and “Do sharks like clear water or do they like it more murky?”. Shark-boy.

One of the things that came out of that program… (more…)

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I thought given all of the tropical activity lately maybe a little science would be in order. Might help to interpret some of the stuff that Dr. Steve talks about on the Weather Channel’s tropical weather.

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