http://www.underwatertimes.com/newswire.php UnderwaterTimes.com breaking newswire en-us Copyright 2012 UnderwaterTimes.com, All Rights Reserved. jeffdudas@underwatertimes.com jeffdudas@underwatertimes.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:46:01 PST Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:46:01 PST http://www.underwatertimes.com/Fireworks/title_rss.gif http://www.underwatertimes.com/newswire.php http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=45100378192 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=45100378192 damage Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, and Victoria, British Columbia, and generate a large tsunami. Yet there are currently no instruments installed offshore, directly above the fault, for measuring the strain that is currently building up along the fault. But a recent $1... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:47:14 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=71006391528 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=71006391528 The Scottish Government has just reported that a total of 362 seals were shot in the first nine months of 2011 under its new 'Seal Licence' scheme, introduced at the beginning of the year. In 2012, 58 licenses have been... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:50:07 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10356201987 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10356201987 A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpbacks in the same ocean basin usually all sing very similar... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:41:01 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=42871053961 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=42871053961 Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations — clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants — and recent media reports have created a perception that... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:02 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=08109725614 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=08109725614 Professor Toshio Yamagata, Dean of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science and Head of the Application Laboratory of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), has announced seasonal climate predictions for 2012 which are strongly influenced by only... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:52:23 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=26171090458 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=26171090458 A Murdoch University PhD student will spend a year living among Indonesian shark fishermen to investigate their impact on shark populations and the effects of conservation efforts on fishing communities. Vanessa Jaiteh hopes her project, beginning at the end of this... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:47:56 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10432978651 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10432978651 A plan to tag the endangered southern resident killer whales that ply both sides of the international boundary between Canada and the USA is meeting with growing opposition, now on the Canadian side of the border. Despite efforts between Canada... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:43:19 EST http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10432978651 http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10432978651 A plan to tag the endangered southern resident killer whales that ply both sides of the international boundary between Canada and the USA is meeting with growing opposition, now on the Canadian side of the border. Despite efforts between Canada... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:43:19 EST