So how does longlining work? I wasn’t sure myself before I got on the boat other than guessing that there was probably a line and it was probably pretty long. Turns out I was right. The line used is miles long and sectioned into groups of hooks called “skates.” In each skate there are 45 […]
St. Peterburg, Florida police say that a man in that community, in an act of reprisal, early on Wednesday, took a bucket of human waste and splattered it all over the floor in a 7-11 convenience store on North Martin Luther King Street. According to the arrest report and the St Petersburg police, an inebriated […]
A Cessna 414 with five persons aboard crashed short of the John Wayne Airport in south California, killing all on board on Sunday the Orange County Fire Authority told reporters. The aircraft, owned by the San Francisco-based real estate company Category III according to FAA records, had declared an emergency and was cleared to land at the […]
The saildrones are completely autonomous, so they can sail along under their own power as long as there’s a little sun and wind to send them on their way. But aimlessly floating around might not produce the best science, so it’s our job to give them a place to go. All of our communication to […]