It’s another warm day on the intracoastal of Fort Lauderdale. But great news! The ROV from Oceana’s Chilean office has finally arrived. After it was loaded on the vessel, the crew spent the rest of the afternoon unpacking several boxes of SCUBAPRO diving gear and making final scheduling arrangements for later in the expedition. However, … Read more
Oceana today kicked off the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Expedition studying the Florida Keys, a habitat affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Oceana Latitude – the 53 meter long vessel chartered by the international marine conservation organization – set sail from Fort Lauderdale (Florida) with scientists, professional divers and a submarine robot … Read more
Spanish model Almudena Fernandez has decided to join us onboard for the first week of the expedition as we travel down and around the Florida Keys. Almudena is a huge Oceana supporter and spent the day recording PSAs about the expedition. Oceana staff also became familiar with the onboard crane today, which will be used … Read more
This morning the Oceana Latitude was moved from Dania Beach to Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale. As the vessel cruised down the intracoastal, fisherman and other boaters were quick to say hello after learning about our expedition in the news. As a majority of the Oceana crew continued to prepare for the launch of the … Read more
I arrived at the Oceana Latitude early this morning to prepare for a full day of media interviews onboard the Oceana Latitude. Oceana’s expedition leaders, Xavier Pastor and Dr. Michael Hirshfield were interviewed by David Fleshler of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tom Brown of Thomson Reuters, Curtis Morgan of The Miami Herald and Jeff Burnside … Read more
The 34th Session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO that was held in Brazil through 3 August 2010, resulted in adding 21 new sites to the World Heritage List, now totaling 911 sites. Two of the new sites are some of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Phoenix Islands Protected Areas in Kiribati … Read more
Sea turtles have been swimming the oceans for more than 100 million years. They have persisted through natural predators, climatic changes and even the mass dinosaur extinction. They have proven to be important ecologically, economically and culturally both in the United States and abroad. Nonetheless, modern day human activities are killing sea turtles at a … Read more
Once the oil is in the water there are really no good options for dealing with a spill, none of the options available are fully effective and each has negative impacts. Once a spill occurs, we are left with no choice but to find the lesser of damages. The bottom line is that with continued … Read more
Many charismatic and commercially important species found in the Gulf of Mexico, such us whales, dolphins, turtles, corals, sharks may be at risk from even a small oil spill. The Gulf of Mexico is an important spawning area for fish. Fish larvae are particularly sensitive to oil. Even at very low levels, oil can cause … Read more
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