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Comment on Recurrection of the Whale! by campjen

campjen — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:34:40 +0000

This is very cool. Although the Pacific Gray Whale population is between 19,000 and 23,000 whales, the Atlantic Ocean population has been extinct because of over hunting for a while. Although it would be interesting if the Gray whale began to repopulate the Atlantic, you are right that this brings up some very interesting questions. What, for instance, caused this whale to show up in the Atlantic? Does this mean that something is wrong with the Pacific habitat? Or was the whale just confused? Whatever the cause of this whale traveling all this way is, something is the matter, and I wish someone could figure out what. This would be a really interesting problem for someone to study.

http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/graywhl.htm

Comment on Exxon’s OIL is still on our beaches! by campjen

campjen — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:05:42 +0000

The fact that the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred 21 years ago and yet we can still find oil on our beaches is ridiculous. Although everyone worked incredibly hard to clean the Sound, there is only so much that can be done. The damages were, unfortunately, permanent.

Oil spill clean up is a dirty job. However, there are four main methods for cleaning up oil.

1) If there is no possibility of the oil polluting coastal regions or marine industries, the best method is to leave it alone to disperse on its own.
2) Contain the spill with booms and collect it from the water surface using skimmer equipment.
3) Use dispersants to break up the oil and speed its natural biodegradation.
4) Introduce biological agents to the spill to hasten biodegradation.

Although there is no way to prevent all spills, we can take precautions to stop the preventable ones. One thing is to make sure the oil tankers are in good shape, as well as replacing all older single hulled ships with newer double hulled ships. Some spills are due to older ships, but most are not preventable because they are unpredictable and the situation varies from spill to spill.

http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/oilspill/cleanup.html

Comment on Recurrection of the Whale! by platbla

platbla — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:13:32 +0000

If this is how it has been for the past few centuries, then I would have to say no on the appearance of another whale showing up randomly or any other species in that matter.

This is a bizzare turn of events, In my opionion the whale got off migration… it was the “black sheep” of the group and prolly wanted to return to its roots, or there is a possibility of why the whale is thre… a sense of danger in the eyes of the major being?? maybe this whale knows something we dont and that is why it is starting to travel back to a once populated area.

Comment on Exxon’s OIL is still on our beaches! by platbla

platbla — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:08:56 +0000

Some of the best methods for cleaning oil is using an absorption method, as in a sponge to water relationship.

BY NOT SHIPPING BARGES IN VASTLY POPULATED FISHING AREAS… or having a smaller boat accommodate the larger tanker which is carrying the oil.

Comment on Grey whale by baliset

baliset — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:39:44 +0000

This is interesting because this could be start of the Grey Whale to be back in North Atlantic Ocean. That would be cool if more and more mammals would move around and live and adapt to other habitats.Here they have some pictures and they talk about how it is by itself in the Atlantic http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1277841/Lost-Med-loneliest-whale-world.html?ito=feeds-newsxml. And also on this website http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=25696 it talks about how scientists are amazed by this whale and how it is far away from his habitat.

Comment on Size Doesn’t Matter by johneri

johneri — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:22:34 +0000

that is amazing that the biggest squid only eats every 200 days I can’t believe that. It would be very cool if there a lot more of these but would it necessary be good for the ocean I mean sense they eat every 200 day it might not effect the habitat that bad really but you never know really big squids could be bad. All squids aren’t necessarily aggressive like a shark I mean like they don’t like to eat that much so they seem kinda to them self and there clan.

Comment on Kill, Don’t Clean by barbarn

barbarn — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:10:39 +0000

This is a very interesting article. I think that they should just kill the birds because if they have no chance of surviving, it would be better to kill them now than to have them suffer a painful death. Also, they need to try to clean this up fast because if it does go through the food chain, its possible that it could get to us humans, and then we would all get sick. According to this article that i read http://www.adn.com/evos/stories/EV223.html, the Exxon Valdez oil spill killed more sea birds than any oil spill in history. They need to try to do something now about this because we do not want to have another big tragedy.

Comment on Bye Bye Barnacles! by bankjoh

bankjoh — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:10:22 +0000

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528110623.htm

I read in this article that they have done a test on this wonder gel. It has so far lasted 18 months with no barnacle buildup. This is a huge breakthrough. They are predicting it to be the new gel all fishing vessel owners have.

Comment on Grey whale by maxwmat

maxwmat — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:09:38 +0000

I think the whale is probably lost. This is really crazy! I think he will find his way home.

Comment on Crazy Canyon Creatures by irvikee

irvikee — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:08:15 +0000

in an artical i was reading earlier this year, i read that more than 2000 scientists from 80 different countries are doing a ocean cencus trying to record all the oceans animals and they say there is over 1 million undescuvered animals.