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Long May Your Big Jib Draw

Goodbyes are the worst things ever. EVER. Especially when it comes to two people I have looked up to for so long. Not only are Al…

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ZOMG Whale shark attack!!!! Or not…

Alistair Dove September 19, 2014 Ascension fail Journalism whale sharks

So this little gem came across my Google alerts today. The cognitive dissonance between what happens (biologically) in that video, what the two intrepid heroes…

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The Atlantic Sun is a potential environmental disaster

Alistair Dove July 22, 2014 Cancun cargo ship conservation Mexico pollution whale sharks Yucatan

EDITOR’S UPDATE 7/24/14: The Atlantic Sun weighed anchor and left the Biosphere Reserve under its own power on 7/23/14 Thank you to all our readers…

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Whale shark slaughterhouse exposed in China

Alistair Dove January 28, 2014 China CITES conservation Finning Overfishing shark finning whale sharks

Conservation NGO WildLifeRisk has put out a press release describing a slaughterhouse for sharks in China’s Zhejiang province. Shark processing is nothing new, and can…

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A whale and a whale shark walk into a bar…

Alistair Dove November 23, 2013 baleen feeding krill lunge feeding silly whale sharks

A bar, somewhere in the ocean. A whale shark sits quietly sipping a Krillians. Whale shark (quietly): <sip> Ahh, that’s some good Euphausia right there.…

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