As a crowd-pleasing family film, Dolphin Tale takes few risks but will still most likely be enjoyed by its target audience. It tells the “based on true events” story of Winter, a dolphin that lost its tail after getting caught in a crab trap off of the Florida Gulf Coast. After rescue and recovery, Winter learns to swim anew, in part thanks to a first-of-its-kind prosthetic dolphin tail.
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Movie Review: Dolphin Tale
Posted in Animals, Environment, Movies, tagged aquariums, Ashley Judd, bottlenose dolphins, conservation, dolphin, dolphin movie, Dolphin Tale, dolphins, Florida, Harry Connick Jr., Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, mountain top removal, oceans on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Protein from Jellyfish Might Improve Memory of Alzheimers Patients
Posted in Animals, Environment, Science, tagged aeqourin, Aequorea victoria, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers, bioluminescent, calcium, crystal jellyfish, GFP, jellyfish, medicine, memory, oceans, protein, Quincy Bioscience on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Wisconsin based biotechnology company claims that one of their clinical studies has shown that a protein extracted from a unique species of bioluminescent jellyfish helps improve the memories of Alzheimers patients.
Nickelodeon’s “Go Diego Go!” Takes on an Oil Spill
Posted in Animals, Environment, tagged bottlenose dolphins, BP, children, children's television, Deepwater Horizon, dolphins, Dora the Explorer, environmental communication, environmental education, Go Diego Go!, Gulf Oil Spill, humpback whale, kids, National Wildlife Federation, Nickelodeon, oceans, oil, oil spill, Ranger Rick, skimming, television, tv, whales on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was happy to see that Go Diego Go! had decided to bring up the issue of how animals are threatened by oil spills. But I also thought it was odd how the show made cleaning up a spill seem so easy. Is this the right message to send kids?
Not Another Shark Movie
Posted in Animals, Environment, Movies, Science, tagged Animals, conservation, documentaries, documentary, education, endangered species, Facebook shark, fear, great white sharks, knowledge, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Movies, oceans, Our Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Science, Sean Aronson, shark attacks, shark research, sharks, surfers, surfing, tigers, White Shark Cafe on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now that his film has been released, Aronson thinks he has added something valuable and new to “what has been said” about great whites.
Will Paragliding Police Make Beaches Safer in Lima, Peru?
Posted in Peruvian News, tagged beaches, Costa Verde, crime, LarcoMar, Lima, Miraflores, oceans, paragliding, parasailing, Peru, police, surveillance, water safety on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My friends over at the news source Living in Peru posted an interesting story last week about how Peru’s police force is planning to conduct regular paragliding patrols over Lima’s 90 beaches this year. My first thought– “this is cool.” My second thought– “is it really going to work?”
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