Ocean Avenue

This page is for everything oceans...from beaches and reefs, to surf and sand, and all the animals that live within it. I am a Marine Conservationist enthusiast and hope to bring awareness to the damage we are inflicting not only on our oceans but to...

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New wave surfing offers a swell time

New wave surfing offers a swell time

By: Grace Millimaci

Rebecca Rempel in action on motorised surfboard. Picture: Lincoln Baker/The West Australian

A Czech-made motorised surfboard has eliminated frustrations of traditional surfing and enabled water lovers to make the most of the Swan River as part of a world first.

Rebecca Rempel and Neil Mans brought Jetsurfs to WA after seeing a YouTube video last year and thinking it was “the…

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Kayaker Explores 110-Year-Old Abandoned Ghost Ship With A Surprising Past In Ohio River. Creepy Images, Ahoy!

Kayaker Explores 110-Year-Old Abandoned Ghost Ship With A Surprising Past In Ohio River. Creepy Images, Ahoy!

Exploring your surroundings can be the best way to discover things you don’t know about and uncover the past. But it’s not everyday you come upon a 110-year-old shipwreck chilling in the middle of an Ohio River tributary.

To see the incredible  ship and learn more about its past, scroll below:

A kayaker and friends were paddling around when they found a very old shipwreck in the Ohio River.

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Editorial: Embrace proposed rules to protect manatees

Editorial: Embrace proposed rules to protect manatees

DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times A tour boat floats nearby as a manatee swims up to the underwater observatory at Three Sisters Springs last week on Kings Bay in Crystal River in Citrus County.

It is a unique, Florida experience: Visitors to Three Sisters Springs in Citrus County are nearly guaranteed in the winter months to see crowds of manatees and even have a chance to swim or paddle alongside…

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Study: Federal regulations alone won’t help Hawaii spinner dolphins

Study: Federal regulations alone won’t help Hawaii spinner dolphins

Spinner dolphin. Photo courtesy NOAA.

By: Bob Berwyn

Duke University researchers say community based conservation measures also needed

Staff Report

FRISCO —Hawaii’s spinner dolphins need federal regulations limiting human access to resting areas, but that alone won’t be enough to help them survive in the long run. Along with any new federal rules, resource managers will also have to work to…

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Protecting a Home Where the Puffer Fish Roam in Biscayne National Park

Protecting a Home Where the Puffer Fish Roam in Biscayne National Park

By: Lizette Alvarez

Fishing from a jetty this month at Biscayne National Park in Florida. The state opposes federal consideration of a no-fishing zone under a conservation plan. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times

BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — For 15 years, officials, environmentalists, fishermen and boaters have struggled to put together a plan to protect one of South Florida’s jewels — a…

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Can SeaWorld Really Send Our Killer Whales to China? Will They?

Can SeaWorld Really Send Our Killer Whales to China? Will They?

By: candace_calloway_whiting

“Ocean Kingdom is the first phase of transforming the last of the undeveloped Pearl River Delta islands into what Mr. Su describes as the “Orlando of China” which “will become the new benchmark for the theme park industry.”  The Chimelong Group.

The short answer is yes, they can send the orcas to a foreign country.It is a viable option, and there are no regulations…

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Pirates, eat your heart out: Rolls-Royce envisions crewless drone freight ships

Pirates, eat your heart out: Rolls-Royce envisions crewless drone freight ships

By: Nick Jaynes

  Rolls-Royce doesn’t just make cars. Technically, the Rolls-Royce this story refers to doesn’t make cars at all, as it sold its car division to BMW back in the 1990s. No, the Roll-Royce I’m talking about is the jet engine and ship manufacturer. And its Ocean Blue team has a wild new idea: crewless drone freighters.

The ships, envisioned above, work much like self-driving…

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Now THAT's how you deal with poachers! Indonesian navy blows up illegal foreign fishing vessels in spectacular fashion

Now THAT’s how you deal with poachers! Indonesian navy blows up illegal foreign fishing vessels in spectacular fashion

By: Sam Webb for MailOnline

Two foreign fishing boats suspected of conducting illegal fishing activities are blown up by the Indonesian navy in Ambon bay, Indonesia, 21 December 2014.

The destruction of the Papua New Guinea-flagged vessels follows a government ruling to sink almost all foreign ships which carry out illegal fishing activities in the waters of Indonesia.

‘The ships have gone…

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Ricardo Fuentes harvests world’s first land-farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna

Ricardo Fuentes harvests world’s first land-farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna

By: Alicia Villegas

Spanish seafood supplier Ricardo Fuentes e Hijos harvested the world’s first land-farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna in early December, the company’s deputy director David Martinez told Undercurrent News.

Through its subsidiary Fortune Mare, Ricardo Fuentes has sold the first land-farmed Atlantic bluefin tunas to the Dutch supplier Jan Van As, which distributes seafood to the…

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Turbines Float Like Kites In New Ocean Energy Project

Turbines Float Like Kites In New Ocean Energy Project

The well known Japanese company Toshiba and its perhaps not as well known co-patriate IHI have been tapped to pilot a new ocean energy project that will deploy a phalanx of underwater turbines that float like kites. The project demonstrates once again how legacy companies are transitioning to new clean tech. At a little less than 100 years old Toshiba is a baby compared to IHI, which traces its…

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Giant Clams: Unsung Heroes for Coral

Giant Clams: Unsung Heroes for Coral

By: Brian Stallard

Giant clams have been a hard-to-miss part of coral reef ecosystems for the greater part of the last 38 million years. However, experts will be quick to admit that the part they play in these incredible systems remains rather shrouded in mystery. Now a new study hopes to pull back the veil and further our understanding of these clam colossi. (Photo : Flickr: BBM Explorer – Rob)

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The must-sail Grenadines

Gliding through these gorgeous isles, meet green sea turtles, “boat boys” who feed and outfit you, and history in turquoise.

View from Petit Rameau, Tobago Cays, in the Grenadines. MICHAELA URBAN

By: Eric Vohr, For The Inquirer

Unspoiled white-sand beaches, turquoise-blue waters, frolicking green sea turtles, and bays, lagoons, and reefs so idyllic you have to pinch yourself just to make sure…

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5 things you didn’t know you could do in the NT

5 things you didn’t know you could do in the NT

There’s more to the Top End than you think. Picture: Tourism NT. Source: Supplied

THE vast yet beautiful Northern Territory drew more local and international travellers this year than any of the past five.  

The National Visitor Survey showed 1.34 million visitors ticked the Territory off their bucket lists, a 14 per cent increase. So what makes this region so special?

Apart from the obvious…

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What Has Happened to the Ocean’s Plastic Trash?

What Has Happened to the Ocean’s Plastic Trash?

By: Elizabeth Paulat

Many of us have seen the photos of plastic refuse in the ocean, the large islands of bags and waste that collect at tidal crossroads. Yet when scientists took a survey of the ocean earlier this year, they found a suspicious amount had disappeared. Was it just our good luck that pollution was decreasing? Hardly. It had simply been sinking, breaking apart and embedding itself…

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North Bend teacher gets fellowship to study sea turtles in Costa Rica Katrina Alegado, an eighth grade science teacher at Twin Falls Middle School, has been accepted into Ecology Project International’s Marine Education Fellowship in Costa Rica, April 18 to 25.

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Seal found 20 miles inland after swimming the wrong way

Seal found 20 miles inland after swimming the wrong way

The distressed seal was stranded in the middle of a field in Newton-le-Willows, near St Helens, Merseyside

Seal washed up in a field in Newton-le-Willows near Warrington, Cheshire Photo: Liverpool Echo

By: Emily Gosden, and agencies

A seal had to be rescued from a field more than 20 miles inland – after apparently getting “very, very lost”.

The seal, which was discovered in Newton-le-Willows,…

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Total Begins its Deepest Drilling Project

Total Begins its Deepest Drilling Project

By: MarEx

Total has commenced an intensive drilling program for the Egina offshore project in Nigeria. Two rigs will be kept busy for a total of 3,000 days, drilling 44 wells in water depths ranging between 1,400 and 1,700 meters.

“This is the deepest offshore project ever operated by Total,” said Jean-Michel Guy, Executive General Manager of the Egina Project. “With production of 200,000…

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