Just in time for the 3 day weekend, another great white is jailed in the fish prison
Monterey Bay Aquarium staff brought a young great white shark from Malibu to Monterey on Wednesday afternoon and put it on display — the fifth time the aquarium has given the public a chance to look at the fearsome fish.
Hundreds of thousands of Chrysaora jellyfish feeding in the bay waters Monday damaged a filter screen on the aquarium’s water intakes, said Eric Quamen the aquarium’s facilities systems supervisor.
“From an operations standpoint, it’s a big deal. From the aquarium standpoint, it’s a minor inconvenience,” Quamen said. “The public would never notice.”
The jellyfish forced the aquarium to cancel its Ocean Explorers program Tuesday for fear that children participating could be stung, said aquarium spokeswoman Karen Jeffries.
“It’s like a bee sting and everyone reacts to it differently,” she said.
They all thought it could never happen here . . .
Google Maps has this feature called Street View, pictures of the streets, driveways and people taken by a roving vehicle with a camera recording everything. Some are calling it privacy invasion. Now the Google is recording ocean floors.
Starting now users of Google Earth can dive into the ocean, explore marine habitats including Monterey Bay and get the latest information about how to make ocean-friendly seafood choices.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium, the aquarium’s Seafood Watch program and scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Stanford University made important contributions to the newest version of Google Earth that was released today by the Mountain View (Calif.) company.
Monterey Bay – including its undersea geography and marine life – is one of 11 regions around the world that are focal areas in the launch of the new Google Earth.
Google Knows Everything About Everyone, Now Including The Fish
The aquarium announced the deal for county residents as part of the observance of its 25th anniversary next year.
Free admission will be offered the 20th of each month from January through October. Residents must present valid identification and proof of residence at the main entrance. The offer is good during regular aquarium hours.
Business owners said they are seeing a definite shift in buyer mentality.
Don Martine, owner of the Martine Inn, said reservations have been erratic and he anticipates that business will be down 5 to 7 percent from where it was last year.
Monterey Bay Aquarium officials said they aren’t sure the exact cause of the attendance drop, either the poor economy or a new California Academy of Science opening in San Francisco.
Good time to let some dieing businesses go.
F-Minus
After bringing elegance to the halls of the Aquarium for seven years, the jellyfish exhibit is calling it quits.
Today was the final day to catch the nebulous lifeforms of the sea on display because Aquarium officials said it was time for a change, as most exhibits are rotated after a two year stint.
Get out of fish jail free!
A great white shark that didn’t have an appetite in captivity was released back to ocean waters Sunday from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The shark, a 4-foot, 55.5-pound female, fed only one time during its 11-day stay at the aquarium despite an array of food choices and feeding techniques, an aquarium spokesman said.
The shark, which went on display Aug. 27, was still swimming and navigating well, but aquarium animal-care experts didn’t want to risk endangering its health, spokesman Ken Peterson said.
The 4-foot, 55.5-pound young female shark was brought to the aquarium Wednesday after being trapped Aug. 16 in a net off Malibu, aquarium spokesman Ken Peterson said in a news release. The shark will likely remain on exhibit for several months.
Since 2004, three white sharks have been displayed at the aquarium, with more than 2 million visitors seeing them before they were released into the ocean.
A 9-foot-3-inch female sevengill shark is the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s latest addition, just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend.
Sevengill sharks are found in waters up to 2,700 feet deep off the Pacific coast from Southern California to British Columbia. They feed along the ocean bottom much of the time, and are believed to enter coastal bays to give birth.
Yah, but what’s it eat?
The sharpnose seven-gill shark feeds on bony fish, rays, small sharks, squid and crustaceans.
Monterey police Sgt. Bill Clark said the Coach USA bus was empty and parked on David Avenue west of Wave Street about a block above the aquarium when it began rolling downhill about 1:45 p.m. It hit several city signs and clipped the front of a vehicle driving on Wave Street before continuing down David Avenue.
The bus next sideswiped a building at 898 Wave St. that houses the aquarium’s offices and continued rolling down the sidewalk before hitting the Aquarium building on Cannery Row outside the gift shop.
A young person used a cell phone to capture the crash – check the video