Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
There have been a couple of blanket octopus sightings recently. Jacinta Shackleton filmed one whilst snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef. According to the Twitter post, “This species of pelagic octopus is rarely encountered and will spend its entire lifecycle in the open ocean. The first live male was only […]
This was actually going to be my first lock-down story before I got carried away with the story about how my nose surgery affected my diving. (These ‘Lock-down’ stories aren’t to be taken too seriously.) In June 2017, I was asked to make a photographic dive in the Cruising Yacht […]
In The Advertiser this week, the CEO of Clean Seas, Rob Gratton, claimed that if yellowtail kingfish farming returns to Fitzgerald Bay, upstream of the Point Lowly giant cuttlefish aggregation in Upper Spencer Gulf, it “will be subject to some of the most intense ongoing monitoring you can imagine”. The […]
The Discovery of a 23m-year-old fossil in Mount Gambier By Steve Reynolds (STEVE’S SDFSA SCIENCE STORY for the month of November) I confess that I maintain only a limited interest in molluscs, even less interest in deep-water species or fossilised specimens. This is despite having a few friends with a […]
Alex Chalupa, Senior Biosecurity Officer, Aquatic Pest Response, Biosecurity SA, Invasive Species Unit, Department of Primary Industries and Regions, has sent us this message below. It is the annual reminder to stakeholders regarding Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS). Hi Everyone, Hope you are coping well in these extraordinary times. It’s beginning […]
New species of bobtail squid discovered By Steve Reynolds (STEVE’S SDFSA SCIENCE STORY OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST) A new species of bobtail squid (genus Euprymna) was recently discovered in Japan. The discovery of a bobtail squid species new to science was made when researchers at the Okinawa Institute of […]
Cuttlefish Attacks On Divers by Steve Reynolds (Taken from the Marine life Society of South Australia Inc 2007 Journal, Number 17, December 2007 ) I must say from the outset that I don’t want to put people off of diving with cuttlefish. It is generally a pleasure to see them during a dive. Since I always […]
Much More to Fletcher’s Dock Than Meets the Eye by Steve Reynolds As reported in my article titled The Dunnikier Slip (& Its Links With The City Of Adelaide) (published in our April 2008 Newsletter), Henry Fletcher built a slipway at Birkenhead between 1849 and 1851. As explained in my […]
Last year, I found a Venus shell, Tapes literatus at the Ships’ Graveyard in the North Arm of the Port River. I reported the discovery in my article entitled Further Discoveries at the Ships’ Graveyard. More recently, two more specimens were found on the western side of Torrens Island (8 October […]
Steriyoula Thethes recently posted some photos of a couple of shells from Largs Bay beach on the SA Natureteers Facebook page, as follows: – (Photos courtesy of Steriyoula Thethes) “A new species of shell, Largs bay. And the last image of a shell that is becoming more common in the […]