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Deep-sea gator bait, a mining company’s continued decline, why are there so many Garfield phones on French beaches, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: April 1, 2019.

Posted on April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Shameless plug for my Patreon! This month, subscribers who sign up for the Ocean Pun Sticker reward will get this glorious squat lobster in high quality vinyl. Suitable for dive gear, laptops, field equipment, or anywhere luxuriously goofy stickers are displayed.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Gator falls!
    • Scientists Dropped Dead Gators to the Seafloor to See What Bites.
    • Why A Scientist Dropped Dead Alligators In The Gulf Of Mexico.
Each giant isopod is around the size of a football. LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM
  • Researchers beginning to uncover the mystery of hagfish’s zombie hearts.

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

  • How Historic Flooding in the Midwest Could Fuel the Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’.
  • Inland Icelanders Burned Whale Bones for Warmth: An archaeological find shows that whale bones were sometimes imported inland to use as fuel.
  • Capitalism sure is weird. Solved: The 35-Year-Old Mystery of the Garfield Phones on a French Beach.
There will be more. NO BLEIZ/AR VILTANSOÙ
  • U.S. Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Opening Arctic, Atlantic Areas to Oil and Gas Leasing.
  • Fish caught eating ducks at Essex shopping centre lake removed because it ‘upset children’.
  • Check out this interview with me: How do you square a passion for the ocean with deep-sea mining?
Thaler with some of his ROV underwater robots. Stephen Voss for New Scientist.
  • How Alarming Is It That Islands Are Just Disappearing?
  • PNG seabed mining company delisted from stock exchange.
  • The Worst Disease Ever Recorded: A doomsday fungus known as Bd has condemned more species to extinction than any other pathogen.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • The Insider’s Playbook to the Con X Tech Prize: Tips from Round 1 participants on getting the most value for your project team

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