The baffling ecological disast...

Abstract. Seals are key predators in the North Sea, with the potential to exert top-down control on commercial fish populations and reshape energy flows th
“Darling, it’s better / down where it’s wetter”*…
From our old friend Neal Agarwal, a long (and illuminating) scroll from the surface to the “bottom” of the ocean (10,924 meters down)…
“The Deep Sea,” from @neal.fun.
* “Sebastian, “Under the Sea,” The Little Mermaid
###
As we dive: we might send connected birthday greetings to a man who put the sea floor to use, Clarence Mackay; he was born on this date in 1874. An early telecom entrepreneur, he supervised the completion of the first transpacific cable between the United States and the Far East in 1904. He laid a cable between New York and Cuba in 1907, and later established cable communication with southern Europe via the Azores and with northern Europe via Ireland. And in 1928, he became the first to combine radio, cables, and telegraphs under one management. (He sold his business, Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation, to International Telephone and Telegraph Company [ITT] for an enormous amount of stock… just in time for the stock market crash in 1929, which wiped him out. He survived the Great Depression by selling his art and antiques.)
#ClarenceMackay #culture #history #marineBiology #NealAgarwal #oceanography #Science #Technology #telecoms #underseaCables