Netflix now offers Carl Safina’s PBS series Saving the Ocean. Join host Carl Safina as he chronicles the unsung heroes who are hard at work inventing and implementing solutions to save the world’s oceans. Most of us have heard about the effects overfishing, pollution and industry are having on the world’s oceans. It’s time for [...]
Getting There After steaming overnight 10 hours from Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, I woke 100 miles at sea. We’re at one of the most famous fishing areas in the northwest Atlantic Ocean: Georges Bank. No one would call the water as I first laid eyes on it calm, but we expect it to lay down [...]
What is the ocean worth to you? That was the question posed as we convened for the Kava Bowl Ocean Summit Conference in Honolulu this week. The spiritual power of our convening came from the seven traditional voyaging canoes that had sailed in the ancient fashion—no GPS, no compass—with master Pacific navigators using the stars [...]
Day 4. Kayaking has become breakfast, followed by food on the boat. Mid-morning, we visited a lighthouse station, still manned, on a small gull-covered isle named Green Island. These seemed all to be Glaucous-winged Gulls, and we found two nests. The island also hosted scarlet-legged Pigeon Guillemots and Black Oystercatchers, with a few Black Turnstones. [...]
After a manic six months over-occupied with two book launches, perhaps a hundred interviews, and our TV show launches, this trip is mainly a rare chance to simply unwind. I’ve been invited as a guest by Bluewater Adventures owner Randy Burke and bear expert Barrie Gilbert, who in the early 1970s was “killed,” as he [...]
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