Results tagged “dive” on Earth Touch Blog
The week’s most viewed stories Jun 6 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 30 May to Thursday 05 June 2008) were:
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Dolphins appear out of the blue
Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.
The week’s most viewed stories May 30 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 23 May to Thursday 29 May 2008) were:
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Dolphins appear out of the blue
Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.
Chocolate dip on coral reef May 22 2008
Not many divers get to see this small reef at Sodwana Bay, part of South Africa’s Isimangaliso Wetland Park, because its uniform coral (Plasticeris) is so fragile.
Tags: africa, chocolate dip, chromis, coral, dive, fish, isimangaliso, lettuce, reef, sodwana, south africaHumans and other ocean mammals May 19 2008
Dealing with creatures in the sea on a daily basis often raises questions about how some more “sensitive” animals should be dealt with.
Tags: dive, dolphin, freedive, human, mammal, marine, ocean, sea, seal, sunfish, whaleDid you know? African penguin May 12 2008
Formerly known as the jackass penguin, the African penguin (Spheniscus dermersus) got its original name from its call, which is uncannily similar to that of a donkey.
African penguins are endemic to the Southern African countries of South Africa and Namibia, and mostly occur within a few kilometeres of the coastline. Non-breeding birds spend most of their time at sea.
Tags: africa, african penguin, bird, call, cape, conservation, dive, eat, fish, jackass, namibia, ocean, penguin, sea, south africa, swim, threatened, waterBlacktip sharks unsettle divers Apr 11 2008
The visibility wasn’t great and the water was filled with jellyfish when the Earth-Touch crew went freediving at Aliwal Shoal, off the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) seemed excitable, passing close to the camera, and the crew felt rather uneasy.
Tags: africa, aliwal shoal, blacktip, dive, eastern little tuna, fish, freedive, indian ocean, jellyfish, kwazulu-natal, marine, remora, shark, south africa, tunaDid you know? How many fish are there in the sea? Apr 8 2008
Can you guess how many different fish species there are in the sea? Five thousand? Twenty thousand? More than a hundred thousand?
Tags: bluespotted chromis, boxy, chromis, dive, fish, indian ocean, name, ocean, sea, species, underwater, videoThe week’s most viewed stories (Feb 22 to 28 2008) Mar 1 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 22 February to Thursday 28 February 2008) were:
Tags: blacktip, botswana, coast, delta, dive, fish, okavango delta, popular, reef, shark, shoal, sky, south africa, storm, summer, tiger shark, whale shark, windThis week’s most viewed stories Feb 15 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 8 February to Thursday 14 February 2008) were:
Tags: aliwal shoal, berry, bird, blactip shark, dive, flame lily, flower, fruit, goose, grass, indian ocean, lily, mistletoe, pygmy goose, sea, shark, south africa, tiger shark, underwaterDid you know? Turtles Feb 12 2008
Turtles are one of only three groups of reptiles that live in the sea. The others are sea snakes and marine iguanas.
Tags: beach, dive, egg, endangered, indian ocean, kwazulu-natal, loggerhead turtle, marine iguana, reef, reptile, scuba, sea, sea snake, south africa, turtle, underwaterCapturing spirit of place Jan 29 2008
Guest Blog By Diane Hossick
Back in the 1970s, the novelist Lawrence Durrell (brother of naturalist Gerald Durrell) presented a memorable BBC TV series entitled Spirit of Place. Beautifully shot, it matched Durrell’s inimitable use of language with landscape, flora, fauna, and people, focusing on European and North African places of great beauty: towns, villages, coast and countryside.
Touchy subjects Jan 29 2008
Sodwana Bay in summer means one thing for me: ragged-tooth sharks in clear blue water. In mid to late summer, females settle on some of the Maputaland reefs for their gestation period.
They are among my favourite subjects, but it’s not without difficulty that we get decent footage of their behaviour. During this gestation period, the animals go into self-preservation mode and are very shy and difficult to approach. When we dive on scuba they flee to the edge of our visibility.
Tags: aliwal shoal, cave, dive, freedive, gestation, kwazulu-natal, maputaland reef, ragged-tooth shark, scuba, sodwana, south africa, swimBest of the Earth-Touch shark action Aug 5 2007
By Richard Frank, editorial team
Our crews have been getting up close and personal with several species of shark in the past two months or so, and we’re hopefully helping to break down the stereotype that all sharks are unstoppable monsters, bent on hungrily devouring humans. The Earth-Touch film-makers are experienced divers, and don’t use cages to protect themselves.
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