Rescued Green Sea Turtle Returns to its U.S. Virgin Islands Home
Rescued at the foot of a St Thomas cliff, five months in a Florida hospital, then a flight home: Khepri the green turtle went back to the sea.
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Be A Marine Volunteer! Opportunities Abound in South Florida
Marine volunteer are plentiful to South Florida residents and visitors alike. Here is a sampling of several ways you can get involved
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Skip a Straw, Save a Sea Turtle
Leatherback, Loggerheads, Hawksbill, Green and the rarest and most endangered Kemp’s Ridley are sea turtle species that swim off Florida. Now, Sailors for the Sea, the Newport, Rhode Island-headquartered ocean conservation organization, has launched a campaign to encourage regattas, restaurants and bars to make straws in drinks request only rather than automatic. Six Places to…
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Deepwater Horizon, The Long Road to Recovery
It seems as though it happened just yesterday, but April 20 will mark the fourth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Eleven workers on the rig tragically lost their lives, and oil gushed from the damaged well for 85 days. Over that period of time, more than 206 million gallons of oil entered…
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Science Trawl: Researchers Hunting Sea Turtles
Hunting Sea Turtles Hunting Sea Turtles is on in the coastal waters of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Two boat captains, two deckhands, one cook and four science personnel spend five days per week aboard Lady Lisa, a 75-foot St. Augustine shrimp trawler, catching sea turtles to submit to a brief scientific study before…
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Fish | Life | Offshore Fishing
Guy Harvey? Who?
Iconic artist and environmentalist to open a new ‘Outpost’ at the Tradewinds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach As I was preparing for my time at the Miami International Boat Show, I was constantly receiving press releases about this person named Guy Harvey. I am told that he is one of the most recognizable names…
