Gloom & doom

[Bowmouth]

[/QUOTE]We just caught a meter and a half wahoo dragging a lure we made ourselves using fishing twine we found on a beach in the Banyaks and some pink plastic wrapping rope found floating that we shreaded and tied to an old hook. We then ate the Wahoo raw and soaked the rest in salt water and dried it in the sun with a woven bamboo tray we bought in Thailand. [/QUOTE]

Recycling at its best!! Well done!!

[/QUOTE]With the USA and China among others spewing so much caca into the atmosphere is it still safe to drink the rainwater we collect?[/QUOTE]

I think if you live well outside industrial and metropolitan areas it's probably still better to drink rain water than over-chlorinated tap water...

[/QUOTE]I have a new pair of flipflops...1 left green and 1 right red (same size) found on a beach in Simeulue. My son found a plastic hair comb. Do you think a toothbrush floating in the sea and scalded by the sun for months is sterile enough to use?
Maybe I have seen Waterworld and Mad Max movies too many times. [/QUOTE]

I'm using two different colored and different model cut-off Mares fins as my boogie-boarding fins. Works great!!!
I'm not sure about re-cycling toothbrushes for anything other than cleaning hard to reach parts on my motorbike...

[/QUOTE]Dodent at Rupiah Tirta Rubiah Tirta Divers is (has been) growing corals for Aceh's part of the coral triangle and a grassroots Turtle Conservation is beginning in the Banyaks part of the Coral Triangle. Turtles of North Sumatra [/QUOTE]

Way to go!! :wave:

 

[TimA]

In the end it will be only "Khao Niaow and Khai Mot Daeng" and the People from Issan will once again rule the Earth.

 

[Bowmouth]

'The World's Fish Will Die Out Within 50 Years'

I find it a bit too dramatic to think that all the worlds fish will be gone in 50 years time.
I do believe though that we're trying very hard (and doing a good job at it too) to catch most of the fish out of our worlds oceans.

 

[Bowmouth]

In the end it will be only "Khao Niaow and Khai Mot Daeng" and the People from Issan will once again rule the Earth.

And don't forget the crispy "thak-a-teng thod"... :eat:

 

[TimA]

And don't forget the crispy "thak-a-teng thod"... :eat:

They would be great with a cold "Bintang" after a good session boogie boarding. almtree:

 

[Bowmouth]

They would be great with a cold "Bintang" after a good session boogie boarding. almtree:

Boogie boarding at Nai Harn Beach has been basically impossible the last few days. Waves are all messy; build and break in seconds.
Quite a few (near) drownings on Phuket beaches too last week. Mostly tourists ignoring (or not understanding the meaning of) the red flags and "playing" the waves and getting caught in rips. Sad...

 

[TimA]

Boogie boarding at Nai Harn Beach has been basically impossible the last few days. Waves are all messy; build and break in seconds.
Quite a few (near) drownings on Phuket beaches too last week. Mostly tourists ignoring (or not understanding the meaning of) the red flags and "playing" the waves and getting caught in rips. Sad...

Sort of miss the days of the messy Monsoon..bodywomping with Churchill fins at Kata Noi and we have pulled out of the water our fair share of unaware tourist who usually walk away from their encounter dazed and embarrassed without any thanks. Care definately needs to be taken after the SW'rlies been blowing for days.

 

[Bowmouth]

Sort of miss the days of the messy Monsoon..bodywomping with Churchill fins at Kata Noi and we have pulled out of the water our fair share of unaware tourist who usually walk away from their encounter dazed and embarrassed without any thanks. Care definately needs to be taken after the SW'rlies been blowing for days.

I pulled with two other surfers a young Thai girl out of deep water and got her safely back to the beach. Her mom was sitting miles away under a tree and never kept an eye on her.
The kid was barely able to swim and couldn't have been more than 12 years old....

Now, with no life guards on the beaches, I hate to think how many more people may end up in serious trouble.

 

[Bowmouth]

Interesting read:

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ghosts of oceans past and future

 

[Bowmouth]

Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast'

By David Shukman
Science and environment correspondent, BBC News

One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning four times faster than it was 10 years ago, according to research seen by the BBC.

A study of satellite measurements of Pine Island glacier in west Antarctica reveals the surface of the ice is now dropping at a rate of up to 16m a year.

Since 1994, the glacier has lowered by as much as 90m, which has serious implications for sea-level rise.

The work by British scientists appears in Geophysical Research Letters.

The team was led by Professor Duncan Wingham of University College London (UCL).

"We've known that it's been out of balance for some time, but nothing in the natural world is lost at an accelerating exponential rate like this glacier"


Andrew Shepherd, Leeds University

Calculations based on the rate of melting 15 years ago had suggested the glacier would last for 600 years. But the new data points to a lifespan for the vast ice stream of only another 100 years.

The rate of loss is fastest in the centre of the glacier and the concern is that if the process continues, the glacier may break up and start to affect the ice sheet further inland.

One of the authors, Professor Andrew Shepherd of Leeds University, said that the melting from the centre of the glacier would add about 3cm to global sea level.

"But the ice trapped behind it is about 20-30cm of sea level rise and as soon as we destabilise or remove the middle of the glacier we don't know really know what's going to happen to the ice behind it," he told BBC News.

"This is unprecedented in this area of Antarctica. We've known that it's been out of balance for some time, but nothing in the natural world is lost at an accelerating exponential rate like this glacier."

The highlighted area shows a dense concentration of crevasses along one edge of the glacier. Large numbers of deep crevasses are a sign that parts of the glacier are moving rapidly.


Pine Island glacier has been the subject of an intense research effort in recent years amid fears that its collapse could lead to a rapid disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet.

Five years ago, I joined a flight by the Chilean Navy and Nasa to survey Pine Island glacier with radar and laser equipment.

The 11-hour round-trip from Punta Arenas included a series of low-level passes over the massive ice stream which is 20 miles wide and in places more than one mile thick.

Back then, the researchers on board were concerned at the speed of change they were detecting. This latest study of the satellite data will add to the alarm among polar specialists.



This comes as scientists in the Arctic are finding evidence of dramatic change. Researchers on board a Greenpeace vessel have been studying the northwestern part of Greenland.

One of those taking part, Professor Jason Box of Ohio State University, has been surprised by how little sea ice they encountered in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada.

He has also set up time lapse cameras to monitor the massive Petermann glacier. Huge new cracks have been observed and it's expected that a major part of it could break off imminently.

Professor Box told BBC News: "The science community has been surprised by how sensitive these large glaciers are to climate warming. First it was the glaciers in south Greenland and now as we move further north in Greenland we find retreat at major glaciers. It's like removing a cork from a bottle."