Seal Rocks - Between Montague and Hinchinbrook Islands, AK

It's cloudy. It's 44ºF/6ºC.
Station: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46061
Location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=60.23&mlon=-146.837&zoom=2
#sea #ocean #water #webcam

Les ressources marines

Découverte de nombreuses ressources marines sous-exploitées dont les algues

Work is off-loading old #oceanography books (no space, no money, not our job etc etc 😞 ). I'm not the worst book-hoarder in the house so I didn't feel too bad taking in a couple of waifs. (I may have to block the Library email tho in case there are more). This one is 150 yrs old and it is oceanography at a similar scale to what I do now. It is written very conversationally... "we did the thing and the results seemed sensible, then we did another thing and those results.. well who knows?" And some lovely coloured plots - would they have been printed or hand coloured? And we still use drifters like the 2nd image - but I wouldn't use a long line like that, and we have GPS plus temperature & pressure sensors aboard. I wonder what they would have thought of our modern kit? Oh and it's the #Dardanelles - so 42 years later it was the scene of so much pointless loss. #ocean #science #history

SOUTHEAST HAWAII - 205 NM Southeast of Hilo, HI

It's cloudy. It's 77ºF/25ºC.
Station: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=51004
Location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=17.504&mlon=-152.197&zoom=2
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A recent high-profile case of a visitor throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal highlights how few cases of harassing & killing these animals get prosecuted.

It's a bit of a sensitive topic but local fishermen here hold onto false beliefs that the seals are not endemic to Hawaii and that they steal their catch.

My buddy who works on monk seal protection at NOAA said they've given up trying to educate adults & instead focus on kids.

#ocean

https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/05/people-usually-get-away-with-harming-hawaiis-seals-despite-tourist-case/

People Usually Get Away With Harming Hawai‘i’s Seals Despite Tourist Case

A Seattle visitor was arrested a week after lobbing a rock at an endangered seal on Maui. But cases involving people killing the seals are rarely prosecuted.

Honolulu Civil Beat

ST GEORGES - 8 NM NW of Crescent City, CA

The weather is clear. It's 57ºF/14ºC.
Station: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46027
Location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.84&mlon=-124.382&zoom=2
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