2:20 PM Thursday Feb 25, 2010
A SeaWorld killer whale seized a trainer in its jaws and thrashed the woman around underwater today, killing her in front of a horrified audience. It marked the third time the animal had been involved in a human death.

Dawn Brancheau had wanted to work at SeaWorld since she was nine [...]

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4:00 AM Wednesday Feb 24, 2010
Fishing industry efforts to trim protection for endangered Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins had mixed results in the High Court at Wellington.
Lawyers for the Federation of Commercial Fishermen tried to block six proposed bans on set netting. and inshore trawling.
The court ruled yesterday to refer two back to Fisheries Minister Phil [...]

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ABC News Report, Mon 15th Feb:
TONY EASTLEY: While much of the focus on whaling has been centred on skirmishes in the Southern Ocean, an important legal case will begin today in a regional courtroom in northern Japan. Two Japanese Greenpeace activists will stand trial for trespass and the theft of whale meat. If found guilty [...]

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6:14 PM Tuesday Feb 9, 2010
The boat that featured in Peter Jackson’s blockbuster film King Kong has been sent to Davy Jones’ Locker after being left to rot at a Wellington wharf for the last five years.
The Venture II was scuttled in the ammunition dumping ground in Cook Strait today under the supervision of Wellington [...]

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4:00 AM Thursday Feb 4, 2010

Squid expert Dr Steve O’Shea. Photo / Mark Mitchell
An Auckland scientist is attempting to break his own world record for rearing deep sea squid in captivity.
The project is a warm-up for Dr Steve O’Shea from AUT University, whose main goal is to one day raise a giant squid in atank.
The [...]

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