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Aggressive animals may threaten salmon, divers
Jumbo squid lurking off the Pacific Northwest coast could threaten salmon runs and signal another change in the oceans brought on by global warming.
The squid, which can reach 7 feet long and weigh up to 110 pounds, are aggressive, thought to hunt in packs, and can move at up to [...]
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It’s not every week something this exciting happens! A team of scientists at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand in Wellington) are thawing and dissecting a giant AND colossal squid!
Steve O’Shea and the colossal squid
New Zealand viewers watch Close Up at 7pm on TV ONE Wednesday 30 April for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What’s black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it’s quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
Pierre, a venerable [...]
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Bay of Islands – Trip Report
12-13 April 2008
A trip to the Cowshed Backpackers always starts well if at least some people manage to find the place without getting lost. Those that managed to make it were Fergus, Tim, Jessica, Cormac, Peter, Ryan, Ali, Cameron, James, Edward, Siggi and Robert. There was just one burning question [...]
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WASHINGTON - Commercial and sport fishing destabilizes fish populations by targeting the biggest, oldest fish and leaving younger fish to proliferate too wildly, US researchers said on Wednesday.
They said fisheries should in fact encourage the taking of smaller, younger fish instead of requiring that they be thrown back.
“That type of regulation, which we see in [...]
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Wade Doak, New Zealand marine biologist and photographer, was a featured guest in an interview with Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand National on Thursday 24 April. Wade talks about the early days of scuba diving, dolphins and protecting New Zealand’s forests. I nearly cried when he talked about diving with schools of Hapuku at [...]
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Tuesday February 12, 2008
Warm ocean currents generated by La Nina have delivered a rare, colourful visitor to New Zealand waters.
A catch, understood to be a juvenile Pacific spotfin burrfish, was caught and photographed by Josh Worthington, Cole Whitehead and Blake Hardley on a spearfish trip to Bird Rock, near Cape Brett in Northland. The fish [...]
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It’s that time of year again, the dive club’s annual FOUNTAIN CRAWL, next week. By now you should have received an email informing you on which day.
Each individual will be presented with a bottle of sparkling wine courtesy of AUUC and after consuming it we will go for a frolick through the many fountains of [...]
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The Surface of the Sea, Encounters with New Zealand’s Upper Ocean Life
By Iain Anderson
Reed Publishing
It is spring. An egg-carrying female red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii, known more commonly locally as a Red crayfish) releases her eggs into the plankton, somewhere between 40,000 and half a million, depending on her size. The spider-like hatchlings are carried [...]
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Scuba lecture at Devonport library 240408
Thursday 24th April 2008
7:00pm start drinks and nibbles
7:30pm talk
Devonport Library, Windsor Reserve
Early scuba diving in NZ by Dr Garry Tee (former member of AUUC)
Dr Garry Tee took up scuba diving in 1969, when only about 150 people in NZ had used scuba. He joined Auckland University Underwater Club, which was [...]
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