The Aussies have made an advancement in anti-shark technology.  SeaChange Technology’s SharkShield device attaches to your ankle like a leash and creates an electro-magnetic field that deters sharks up to 6 meters away.   Link

Broceanographers are constantly checking surf reports for current conditions as well as forecasts for the next swell.  There are countless websites that report surf and ocean weather conditions.  Each site tries to set itself apart from all the others by focusing on specific regions, using fancy graphics, and making claims that they’ve got the most [...]

Earlier this month there was an area off the Oregon coast where the seafloor was littered with piles of dead sea life (typically slow-moving sea life, like crabs, worms, jellyfish – but no dead fish were found).  This is the fifth year in a row that this has happened in the area, so scientists have [...]

Although this story is a bit dated, I feel it deserves a mention.  It’s a surfboard with a built-in wirelss tablet pc, so surfers can surf (the internet) while they’re out in the water. From the looks of it, the whole thing was more of a gimick to demonstrate wireless technology.  Two years have passed [...]

Underwater gliders are helping oceanographers remotely collect real-time information about water currents, pollution and ocean organisms.  They’re currently patroling the waters off the coast of California.  Here’s a link to the project portal and a regularly updated video depicting the gliders movements. Link

Here are a couple of links to an interesting study of the deep canyons that make the waves at Black’s so special. http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=591 http://science.whoi.edu/users/elgar/NCEX/ncex.html    

Some folks from A1surf report that ona recent trip to the north coast of Cornwall (England), they asked local surf shop owners and surfers what they thought of the impending Wave Hub project.  They were surprised to discover that most people didn’t know anything about the project or it’s potential to degrade the quality of [...]

Until now scientists had identified and named  about 5,000 different marine microbes, but a recent survey suggests that there could be over 100 times that amount living in our oceans.  Using a DNA probe marine biologists  found  20,000 microbes living in a single liter of seawater. "A swimmer taking just a swallow of seawater may [...]

The Aussies have done it again.  This time with a pillow that eliminates the need to get out of bed to check the surf.  It communicates wirelessly with special surf-monitoring software that you install on your computer.  The pillow vibrates according to the size of the waves, i.e. bigger waves make the pillow vibrate more [...]

Scientists in Australia are taking a novel approach to generating power from wave energy.  From the looks of it, this generator would not steal as much of the waves’ power, so surfers would not suffer from smaller waves.    I wonder if the English have looked into using this technology for their proposed wave energy [...]