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[Link] How drug smugglers are trying to outsmart border officials at Australian ports
Read: 10/5/2022 www.abc.net.au
International crime syndicates are attempting to smuggle drugs into the country strapped to the hulls of cargo ships to evade detection, police say. Once the ship arrives at the port, scuba divers are standing by to collect the contraband.
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[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed
Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.
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[Link] Nobody Knows What Megalodon Really Looked Like, Scientists Say
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
It’s not hard to see why Megalodon, an epic species of shark that died out some 3.6 million years ago, has captivated the public imagination and become the star of movies like The Meg.
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[Link] Running n8n on ships: An interview with Maranics 🛳
Read: 15/11/2021 n8n.io
Somewhere in the world’s oceans, a local n8n instance just ran a workflow on a cruise ship. We spoke with Mattias Larson, co-founder of Maranics to learn more. I am the co-founder of Maranics, which is a company that focuses on digitalizing human processes to increase quality and reduce workload.
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[Link] A US nuclear-powered attack submarine hit something underwater – now its two senior officers have been fired
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US Navy has fired the two senior officers of a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was damaged in an underwater collision last month in the South China Sea. The actions were taken by Vice Admiral Karl Thomas, commander of the US 7th Fleet, based in Japan.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] The restoration project giving oyster shells a new life
Read: 27/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Discarded oyster shells from restaurants, usually destined for landfill, are being recycled to create shellfish reefs in Queensland's Moreton Bay. It is the biggest community-driven reef restoration in Australia.
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[Link] Men Who Spent 29 Days Lost at Sea Say It Was a Nice Break From the Pandemic
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni climbed into their small, 60 horsepower motorboat on the morning of September 3 and departed from Mono Island, in Western province, Solomon Islands.
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[Link] Thousands of kilometres from anywhere lies Point Nemo, a watery grave where space stations go to die
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
At the furthest point from any landmass on earth, and 4km under the sea, lies the space cemetery. When their outer space journeys come to an end, old satellites, rocket parts and space stations are sent to this desolate spot in the Pacific Ocean to rest on the dark seabed forever.
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[Link] Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
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[Link] An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish the DNA to take over the world
Read: 5/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org
It sounds like a bad monster movie plot: A 10-legged mutant creature that reproduces asexually, escapes from confinement in Germany, and quietly begins a global invasion.
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[Link] Baby turtles ingest more plastic than adults due to how they eat, where they live
Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Baby turtles are more likely to consume plastic waste polluting the ocean than adults because of their eating habits, an international team of researchers has found.
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[Link] Japan Will Release Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Ocean
Read: 11/4/2021 www.vice.com
The Japanese government has decided to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.