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How to Survive Without Sex for 50 Million Years? Dry Up

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how one tiny creature has flourished for up to 50 million years without sex: it dries up.

Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic asexual freshwater invertebrates (animals without spines) are the ultimate escape artists, able to outpace their enemies by drying up and blowing away.

For most animals, sex is not only a way of producing the next generation, but a means of keeping enemies at bay.

"If an organism stops having sex and crystallizes its genome, all of [its enemies] catch up with it evolutionarily and can quickly overwhelm it," explained Paul Sherman, a neurobiologist at Cornell University in New York.

This idea, known as the Red Queen Hypothesis, helps explain why most animals go to great lengths to find mates and have sex. No Shit Sherlock! More...GO

Kelly Slater Pushes the Boat Out
	Kelly Slater’s new board: whaddaya reckon? It’s is called the Chunnel and it’s a whole new order of weird, even for the currently experimentalist best-surfer-ever Kelly Slater. At this stage no one really knows what he’s thinking, other than that its outside the box by a long way. Channel Islands recently slipped this little nugget into the hype machine and speculation is already rife on whether KS will be riding this when the tour restarts at Snapper Rocks at the end of Feb., whether he’ll blow everyone away or make a fool of himself (not easy if you’re KS on the GC at aQuik ASP event, but not impossible) Whatever happens in the public eye, any surfers with an interest in board design should keep an eye on the Chunnel. Here’s what CI Surfboards put out there: “Water is compressed over the hole. As it passes over, it draws air into the Chunnel (channel/tunnel). It is the principal of the U class racing boats on pontoons. Each side panel is veed out with hard concaves toward the rails.”

Todos Santos Big Wave Event

Monster Energy Drinks presents the 2010 Todos Santos Big Wave Event.

Photo by Lorene Carpentier/www.todossantosevent

This unique event will unfold in one epic day of big wave surfing in waves exceeding 30-foot face.

The Reef @ Todos 98, marked surfing’s history with the biggest surf ever ridden in competition.

This year Rogue Wave Events will defy the logistical obstacles of producing a grandiose event in heavy sea and on a remote island, to resurrect the event at this top world big wave spot.

As current Big Wave World Tour Leader and surfer representative, Greg Long mentioned, this event is sure to “become one of the greatest big wave contests”. Gary Linden, Event Director, renown big wave surfer and legendary shaper is stoked to have the event back at his local big wave spot “I love Baja and Todos. This event is 15 years in the making. Thanks to Monster Energy Drinks for fuelling our dream and pushing big-wave surfing.

The top international big wave surfers are delighted to add another big wave venue to the calendar and be able to showcase their talents. Event’s invitee and 9 times world champion Kelly Slater put it in simple words, paddling into monster waves and competing against the best big waves riders in the world “COULD BE FUN” !

WHAT: Paddle-in surfing international competition . A Big Wave World Tour Event. $10,000 minimum Prize Money.

WHO: 24 of the best big wave surfers in the world, Including Greg Long, Peter Mel, Carlos Burle, Kelly Slater, Grant Baker, Shane Dorian, Coco Nogales, Oscar Moncada, David Rutherford & More ...

WHERE: Mexico, Baja California Norte, Ensenada, Island of Todos Santos at “Killers”

WHEN:Waiting Period February 1st to February 28th 2010. The event will be held on the biggest/best day of the waiting period.

	Dolphins Really Are The Most Intelligent Creatures
	About 25 years ago, while I was a Psychology graduate student at the University of Hawaii, I made several visits to the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory (KBMML) in Honolulu. Those visits were field trips, made in conjunction with an intensive seminar on cognition that I was enrolled in that semester. The main focus of that seminar was human cognition, but along the way we studied comparative animal cognition as well, and my classmates and I visited the KBMML to learn something about dolphin cognition. What we saw was impressive. At that time, researchers at the lab were just beginning to elucidate the extent of dolphins' ability to comprehend and interpret "an artificial sign language, in which gestures are like words and sequences of gestures are like sentences." Through a series of carefully constructed experiments, the researchers were able to show that dolphins' comprehension of this language went far beyond mere response to commands (such as you would give to a dog to sit, or roll over). The dolphins were taught to associate hand signs with a corresponding noun object -- e.g., a beach ball, a hula hoop, a surfboard -- and they learned signed verbs, such as fetch, take, and jump. Using these vocabulary items in combination, the dolphins could be instructed to "fetch ball' or "fetch hula hoop" -- and they would select the correct item from among several floating in their pool, and bring it to the trainer. But it gets better! More...Go

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	Surfers Riding Waves Inches from the Jaws of Death
	When Fergal Smith dropped in on a monster barrel two miles off the coast of Perth in Western Australia, he little realised he was also dropping in on a monster of another kind. For as he powered down the face of the 20-plus-foot wave, lurking there just a few feet from him was a 500-pound Great White Shark. Smith didn’t even realise how close he had come to an encounter with one of the ocean’s deadliest predators. Other surfers’ shaves with man-eating sharks are closer still.

	Great White Sharks - What Do We Really Know?
	What do we really know about them? Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 16 January, 2010 : - - The Great White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as white pointer, or white death, is a large shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. However, their greatest concentrations can be found off the southern coasts of Australia, South Africa and California. It’s called a Great White because its underbelly is white. Its top is more of a greyish blue. The Great White reaches lengths of more than 5m and may weigh up to 2,000kg. It becomes sexually mature at around 15 years of age and has a lifespan of 30 to over 100 years. The Great White shark is arguably the world’s largest known predatory fish, eating dolphins, porpoises, whale carcasses, seals and sea lions. It is an open-ocean dweller and lives between the surface and 1,280m. It is most often found close to the surface. Jaws, the movie and book franchise, provided the Great White shark with the image of a “man eater” in the public mind. In reality, humans are not appropriate prey for white sharks. While Great White sharks have killed a few humans, they typically do not target them: for example, in the Mediterranean Sea there have been 31 confirmed attacks against humans in the last 200 years, most non-fatal. In fact, you are more likely to be struck by lightning. Great Whiye and Kayak : Thomaspeschak.com Many incidents seem to be “test-bites”. Great White sharks also test-bite buoys, flotsam and other unfamiliar often inanimate objects, and might grab a human or a surfboard to identify it. Other incidents seem to be cases of mistaken identity, in which a shark ambushes a bather or surfer from below, believing the silhouette is from a seal. Many attacks occur in waters with low visibility. The species appears to not like the taste of humans, or at least finds the taste unfamiliar. Further research shows that they can tell in one bite whether or not the object is worth attacking. Humans, for the most part, are too bony for their liking. They much prefer a fat, protein-rich seal. Accordingly, in most recorded attacks, great whites broke off contact after the first bite. Fatalities are usually caused by blood loss from the initial limb injury rather than from critical organ loss or from whole consumption. Great White sharks, like many other sharks, have rows of serrated teeth behind the main ones, ready to replace any that break off. When the shark bites, it shakes its head from side to side, helping the teeth saw off large chunks of flesh.

Surfers Against Sewage Update

Clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) were on hand to greet water company executives with the walk of shame as they entered the appeal hearing today. 6 water companies are appealing against designated discharge consents for 4,000 combined sewer overflows (CSOs).

SAS were armed with a giant 6ft by 4ft photo of a CSO clogged full of sanitary towels, condoms, cotton buds sticks and more. The appeal is expected to last for 4 days. Today SAS campaigners were in wetsuits with surfboards to welcome water company executives as they enter the appeal at the entrance to the Park Plaza Hotel, Cardiff. They were armed with a 6ft by 4ft image of a disgusting CSO jammed full of sanitary towels, condoms and worse

Soul Surfer Movie

Soul Surfer movie seeks extras on North Shore 16 Jan- The true story of Bethany Hamilton is said to be the greatest sports comeback story in the history of surfing. Soul Surfer is a theatrical feature film revolving around the remarkable true story of the teen surfing champion. Bethany has become an icon worldwide since she lost her entire left arm to a shark attack while surfing in Kauai, Hawaii.

The story goes from tragedy to triumph as Bethany defies all odds to return to surfing and win championships, in spite of the loss of her arm. Soul Surfer, the movie, is based on the Simon and Schuster bestselling book, Soul Surfer, which sold over 1 million copies....MORE

	8 Remarkable Animals That Saved People’s Lives
	Beluga whale saves drowning diver - Diver Yang Yun was part of a competition to hold her breath for as long as possible in a pool of beluga whales in China. The dive was running smoothly until she tried to move her legs and they wouldn’t move. That’s when Mila, one of the beluga whales, came to her rescue. Sensing something was wrong, the whale immediately swam to the drowning diver, took Yun’s leg in her mouth and lifted her to the surface to breathe, saving her life...MORE

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We pride ourselves on the people that make up our active holidays team. We endeavour to give a fun and personal service on our activity holidays and aim to have you back on our diving holidays and kitesurfing holidays with us in the future. We are a small specialist adventure sports holiday company who put time and money in staying flexible so you have the maximum number of choices available on your activity holidays. After diving holidays - surfing holidays - kitesurfing holidays - windsurfing holidays - adventure holidays - active holidays or multi activity holidays...GO

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