#ocean appreciation post

[profkayton]

Pom Pom Crab Appreciation Post

The Pom Pom Crab, or Lybia Crab (also known as boxer crab) reside in the indo-pacific ocean, and always carry sea anemone around.

From Padi.com: "The crabs are known for their signature move of always carrying a small living sea anemone around in each of its claws, which helps them catch food and protect themselves from predators (thought to resemble pom-poms or boxing gloves)."

[chloesimaginationthings]

YOU! OTHER PRISONER,, DO YOU HAVE WATER?

[policy-of-trvth]

jellyfish appreciation

I fucking love jellyfish

[reasonsforhope]

Is it true some parts will be under water in 2025? I'm kinda of worried cause someone told me about it bc it was on the news

Eh, not really. Like, technically, but that's a very dramatic way to put it.

What that person told you about was probably this prediction, which says that some roads on some of the Florida Keys might be underwater by 2025.

Does that suck? Yes. But it's also pretty limited in scope.

(And by the way, that's probably not "underwater all the time." There will probably be a number of years of "the roads will be underwater at high tide specifically." I can't currently find a source on this, but that's how tides work, and the Florida Keys article does specifically mention them as a main problem.)

The areas in danger first are pretty universally small, very low islands. Actually, a dozen or so small islands have already gone underwater in the Pacific Ocean, but very importantly, none of those islands were inhabited.

They were mostly small reef islands (that is, the entire island is exposed coral reef detritus) and other uninhabited shoals. Mostly, they were so small scientists had to check old satellite images to even figure out that they disappeared. Literally, we're talking about chunks of land that are just 100 square meters/300 square feet. Again, not great, but still very limited in scope.

As this Live Science article thankfully explains, it's pretty unlikely that any countries at all will disappear before 2100.

Also, just because land is below sea level doesn't mean it will be underwater, and there are very real steps we can take to defend a lot of endangered cities/islands.

For example:

Much of the Netherlands is already below sea level, but the country isn't disappearing, because the Dutch have put a lot of work into building and maintaining coastal defenses.

Multiple surveys (including the one that found the missing islands in Micronesia) also found that not all low-lying islands are vulnerable to erosion and flooding. This is because many islands are protected by mangrove forests, lagoons, or both

Mangrove reforestation in particular is genuinely a super effective anti-flooding strategy that is being deployed pretty widely, and is expected to increase a lot in the coming years. Mangroves are effective at not only preventing short-term flooding, but also mitigating sea-level increases (in part by preventing erosion)

Some islands, esp Pacific Islands, have actually grown during the past couple decades, not shrunk. It really depends on what the island is made up of. Not all land is automatically doomed

You can read more about how sinking countries are fighting back here, and the lessons we can learn from them:

-via Time, June 13, 2019

And finally, and this is good news for reasons I'll explain in a second:

Some of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world are at the top of the danger list. (Note: the predictions at that link are based on some fairly severe warming predictions. They do NOT necessarily reflect what's going to happen or when.)

The cities that are going to be in danger the soonest (still away btw) include New York, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Dubai. Lots of very rich people in those cities! Who would really like to not have to move (any of their ten different homes lol)

So, flooding aside, we're going to (by necessity) get a lot better at figuring out the quickest, cheapest, most scalable, and most effective types of coastal defenses real fast.

Are rich countries going to be way more able to get strong coastal defense systems up quickly? Yes. Does that suck? Sure fucking does!! But these solutions don't all require a lot of money or tech to implement, even at a large scale, especially when it's local communities driving the effort.

And, importantly, when rich countries pour a ton of money into figuring this out, that will hugely expand our understanding of what techniques work best, why, and how best to deploy them in different situations. Unlike physical structures, that's valuable knowledge that can be shared very, very widely.

And any technology that comes out of this is going to work like solar panels and other green energy: as more people use it, it will get cheaper and cheaper. Probably really quickly.

So, all told, no one's going to be swallowed up in the next few years. We have time to work on this and a lot of people are already doing so.

Mostly, experts predict that the first wave of large-scale issues will be happening around 2050.

Three decades doesn't sound like enough time, in the face of something like this. But you know what? Responses to climate change are speeding up exponentially, and different types of responses are multiplying and magnifying each other.

We went from inventing flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years.

I wouldn't count us out of the climate change fight yet.

(...I wouldn't count on retiring to Florida either, though)

[etrosgate]

never should've smoked that mirage weed, now im in the tower of druaga 1984

[ffeelann]

my love lenguage is, indeed, being every character in the musical so you can be the protagonist.

[tragicotps]

[clamsjams]

also i know cucurevil is supposed to be like cucurucho + evil but i can only hear it as cucurucho weevil

[kaijuandcoffee]

Ocean Ramsey sucks, a rant and a list:

-she is not an actual marine biologist

-She has no published research and has not contributed to the field in any tangible way

-she is a serial wildlife harasser.

-she cares more about self promotion, her influencer image, and getting a cool gopro shot for Instagram than the health and safety of the animals she interacts with

-people i know who have worked with her can attest to this, but it’s also very apparent in the way she approaches animals, invades their space, chases/harasses them in that she alters how they would normally be behaving.

-exhibit a: illegally touches and rides great whites by hanging on their dorsal fins in both Hawai’i and Mexico. Every responsible diver or tour guide’s first rule is to not touch anything.

-exhibit b: when she is swimming with an 18-ft long, likely pregnant, great white that was feeding off a whale carcass off the coast of O’ahu, it looks like the shark is swimming peacefully next to her. However, you can look at how hard Ramsey is kicking, with powerful freediving fins, to keep up with the shark. That’s because the shark is trying to swim away from her, but Ramsey continually follows her with a gopro in her face. She eventually touches/pets her as the shark swims by.

After this encounter and her post, 60 people went into the water trying to get the same experience. As a result, The shark left the sight and wasn’t seen again. Obviously this is conjecture but I feel like it’s not unlikely that had she been given the proper space the shark could have/would have had more feeding opportunities. Why else would a pregnant great white leave such an enormous food source without returning?

This post by actual shark researcher Dr. Michael Domeier breaks it down really well:

-if you think i’m lying about her being self-involved: a friend of mine did her internship, along with being a bully to her husband and putting instagram shots as the priority, ramsey also tried to copyright her ponytail style. Which is honestly just funny.

-her real name is melissa lmao (nothing against that name it just shows how fake her whole persona is)

-Ramsey will argue she is showcasing sharks aren’t man eating monsters. I do appreciate the awareness she raises for shark conservation. However I would argue her posts are less about shark conservation and more influencer-style #blessed type posts.

-HOWEVER. She does it by basically demonstrating everything you aren’t supposed to do when encountering any wild animal. You can spread this message and awareness without harassing (i.e. interfering with an animal’s natural behavior) wildife. Sharks are cautious and timid, but they will defend their space if they feel the need to. One of these days her or someone trying to replicate her experiences will get hurt.

Tl;dr: melissa “ocean” ramsey is not a marine scientist or animal behavior expert in any way. She is essentially “grizzly man” but with sharks. She is not a shark whisperer. Her content, while doing some good work promoting shark conservation and awareness, does more harm than good by showcasing irresponsible and dangerous interactions with them for likes and views. Consider giving your clicks and views to folks who promote these messages responsibly.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk 🤙

About me: I have a degree in Environmental Science with an emphasis in marine science. I am a scuba divemaster with 200+ dives, have worked in science education for over 5 years and work with sharks daily as an aquarium maintenance diver. I’m not an expert and this is my informed opinion, however I do feel I have enough experience in this field to make this opinion with confidence. 

Edit: apparently she’s also standing with bethany hamilton’s transphobic statements and said some pretty transphobic things herself. Fuck Ocean Ramsey. Support trans athletes and responsible ocean educators.

Some sources:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/10725478

https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-ramsey-shark-video-2626382493.html

Some alternative nature accounts to follow:

https://instagram.com/kaikea.nakachi?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU=

https://instagram.com/pnwprotectors?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU=

https://instagram.com/elias59173?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU=

https://instagram.com/kanaeokana?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU=

[neptuneispurple]

sinking

For you, I could flood page after page with writing A sea of origami cranes echoing my words to you Every fold a story, every crease filled with memories Deep enough for me to drown in.

[silk-spun]

sun’s agony, grief and denial watching the freighter blow up is so powerful. so often i’m watching a show and the reaction of someone who is supposed to be losing their significant other is entirely unrelatable. like, your person is perishing right in front of you.. a little more hysteria girlfriend!

[cutlassandcompass]

At the Sail Freight Pumpkin Fest with the schooner Apollonia and the sloop Clearwater

[prince-of-red-lions]

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SENT IN THOSE ASKS!!! It means a lot to me I’ve had a rough day with little to no downtime. I quite literally got home from school to pass out fliers for like 3-4 hours then went to a church activity and just got home. Ily guys sm thank you‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️And ofc Ty to all my other followers YOU GUYS R THR BEST AND I DO SEE YOU UR FANTASTIC!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

also apologies I haven’t been able to get to the asks abt the four swords memes yet, seeing as I didn’t have time to today I will surely get to it tomorrow!! Ty💖

[distortionpotato]

LET ME JUST SAY, you know who's underappriciated, cyanobacteria. These amazing precambrian little guys have done SO much for us, they basically kickstarted the change of our atmosphere to being oxygen heavy. You know why our oceans aren't as carbonated as peirier? Cyanobacteria. You wanna know why oxidization is a process? Look no further. These amazing little guys were also some of the earliest known lifeforms, they walked so we could run. Madlads.

[whirling-fangs]

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[ormymarius]

Orm in Batman and the Justice League