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The Green Sea Turtle : Narrated by Dr. Neil Burnie

January 11, 2025 Published by

Ocean Vet Bermuda: Episode 5 – The Green Sea Turtle (Narrated by Dr. Neil Burnie)

Ocean Vet returns with a very special never before seen episode. Before Neil’s death in 2015 he was able to complete the voice over for one episode of Ocean Vet, The Green Sea Turtle. This episode was never released for broadcast until now. Apr 8, 2020. After Dr Neil Burnie’s tragic death, the narration for the series was completed by Michael Douglas.

In this episode Neil deploys his veterinary skills to help save Bermuda’s Green sea turtles. Neil and the Ocean Vet team work alongside the longest standing turtle research project in the world; the Bermuda Turtle Project. Follow the team as they capture and release wild green sea turtles. The team collect blood samples, measurements, and attach fin tags to these adorable animals. This data can be used to monitor their health and populations. Finally they attach a satellite tag to a mature turtle. The tag will record data on the turtles oceanic migrations. Neil also works with Bermuda’s turtle stranding network. This organisation rescue and re-release injured turtles back into the wild.

Shark Country – Bermuda & Teddy Tucker

March 2, 2024 Published by

Teddy Tucker, best known as a salvage diver and shipwreck hunter was first and foremost a fisherman. On a fishing trip in 1994 he was asked for his thoughts on changes he had witnessed over his time fishing off Bermuda. One of the starkest examples of change on the Bermuda Reef is the disappearance the once ubiquitous shark. Other fishermen, lobster divers and spearfish hunters share their observations of further change they have experienced over the past 30 years. Together with Teddy they stand as witnesses to the decline in Bermuda’s marine environment gleaned over years of consistent free diving and scuba diving on the island’s reef.

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The Outlaw Ocean Music Project #TheOutlawOcean @ian_urbina

October 13, 2021 Published by

The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fueled journey through some of the most dangerous regions of the earth: the high seas, where lawlessness and physical risk prevail. Ian Urbina — Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times — gives us a galvanizing account of the several years he spent exploring and investigating the high seas, the industries that make use of it, and the people who make their, often criminal, living on it.

Reporter: Ian Urbina | Editor: Sophia Peer | Producer: Annelise Blackwood | Footage: Fabio Nascimento
Artists from Around the World Meld Journalism into Music

Four Bermudian artists have participated in this global collaboration – The Outlaw Ocean Music Project – focused not only on producing rich beats, but also promoting ocean awareness. The Bermudian artistry featuring Heather Nova, Jude Richardson, Detrivore and Nala Tessloff all produced varying musical interpretations, but shared a common goal of creating content that told important stories.

Tessloff said, “As the singer, I loved combining the whale songs with the crying seagulls. I
wanted to sing with them, so I found a melody that captured this feeling of solitude and the
overwhelming desire for freedom that the sound of the sea inspires.”

Read complete article here

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How a Long-Lost Perfume Got a 2nd Life After 150 Years Underwater in #Bermuda @AtlasObscura

July 2, 2020 Published by
A team of divers and archaeologists discovered the 19th-century fragrance in a shipwreck off the coast of Bermuda!
BY LINA ZELDOVICH JUNE 30, 2020

AFTER AN INTENSE STORM PUMMELED Bermuda in February 2011, the island’s custodian of historic wrecks Philippe Max Rouja went to do a coastal survey and spotted a partially exposed bow of a boat. The bow belonged to the Civil War blockade runner Mary Celestia, which was en route to North Carolina’s Confederate forces when it sank in 1864.

Dr. Philippe Max Rouja, Custodian of Historic Wrecks from the Government of Bermuda, clearing the non-historic layers of sand during the rescue archaeology investigation of the bow of the shipwrecked Mary Celestia, South Shore Bermuda. CHRIS BURVILLE FOR LOOKBERMUDA.COM

The Mary Celestia is far from alone: Bermuda’s treacherous underwater reefs sank many a ship. In fact, over 300 vessels are buried around the island, each with its own history and artifacts. But this isn’t the story of the wreck itself—this is a story about a whiff of lost perfume history hiding within.

After a week of examining the wreck, a team of divers and archaeologists found a number of artifacts, including shoes, wine, and two small bottles of perfume. The items were packed together, leading the team to think they may have been gifts. Save for some mineral deposits that had formed on them, the bottles appeared to be intact. One still contained a small air bubble inside, which otherwise would have been forced out by seawater. Etched on the glass were the names “Piesse and Lubin London.”

Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone. COURTESY LILI BERMUDA

Rouja brought the bottles to Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone, the owner of a local boutique perfume store called Lili Bermuda. Ramsay-Brackstone immediately knew they were a rare find. “In the 1800s, London was a …

… read complete article @ atlasobscura.com/articles/shipwreck-perfume-bermuda-mary-celestia

#Bermuda Kids Freedive Record – Beth Neale @BdaZooSociety

August 16, 2019 Published by
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South African Freediver Beth Neale aims to break her own continental record and raise $20,000 for the Bermuda Zoological Society in her latest challenge.

I am Beth Neale, 3x South African freedive Champion and African continental record holder. For the last 5 years, I have been a part of the Kids on the Reef (KOTR) programme in beautiful Bermuda, run by the Bermuda Zoological Society, where we teach 250 school children per year freediving and ocean conservation over 2 days – snorkelling and taking them as far out as 8 miles offshore to experience the pristine coral reefs!

The Spring KOTR programme is generously sponsored by our amazing corporate donor, AXA XL. In the Fall, we are sponsored by Hiscox, the Neil Burnie Foundation and the Bermuda Lionfish Taskforce. Through this we are undoubtedly creating the next generation of ocean conservation warriors! We have taught over 1500 children freediving and ocean conservation over 7 years.

Inspired by my work with Kids on the Reef, I will be attempting to break the South African no fins free diving record of 47 meters or 154 ft in Bermuda this summer so that more young Bermudians have the incredible opportunity to experience programs connecting them to their oceans.

Help me to make this record breaking dive possible this Summer! Donate and share!

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Free diver sets local record at 164 feet – RG

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#Bermuda #Kitesurfing @Bermuda

March 15, 2018 Published by

Pro kiteboarders Laurel Eastman, Sensi Graves, Therese Taabbel, and Melissa Gil set out to explore Bermuda. Here is the story of where the winds took them!

Filmed & Photographed by Nhuri Bashir, Andrew Kirkpatrick, John Singleton and Jay Riihiluoma

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Filmed & Photographed by Nhuri Bashir, Andrew Kirkpatrick, John Singleton and Jay Riihiluoma

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The Insidious #PlasticProblem by #Bermuda Blue @jfd2205 @PlasticPollutes @Bermuda #PlasticPollution

January 31, 2018 Published by

19278-200While those behind the current road safety campaign, the RG and Piece of the Rock, are to be congratulated there is another insidious problem that has not really been talked about, let alone addressed.

The figures in this story should shock any right-thinking man, woman or child – unfortunately they won’t.

Bermuda’s overall mentality is not geared towards the environment. It is a throw-away society where the first thought is “to get rid of” rather than “to mend” …

271-200The figures are absolutely shocking!

Read Full Article @ The insidious plastic problem — Bermuda Blue

Chasing Coral – Netflix Documentary

October 3, 2017 Published by
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Most people stare up into space with wonder, yet we have this almost alien world on our own planet just teeming with life.

It’s a world completely out of sight and out of mind.

Beneath the waves, coral reefs are dying on a massive scale. A group of scientists & filmmakers are fighting to stop it!

Corals are sophisticated animals that are a fundamental part of a huge ecosystem. They will continue to live and flourish as long as their environment allows them to. There is currently a massive heat wave that’s travelling throughout the world’s oceans. As a result the corals bleach and  only their skeletons remain. It’s like a constant human body temperature rise of two degrees with the onset of fever. That’s the seriousness of the issue

50% of the world’s coral has disappeared in the last 30 years and more than 90 percent will die by 2050!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Chasing_Coral

Chasing Coral is a 2017 American documentary film about a team of divers, scientists and photographers around the world who document the disappearance of coral reefs.[1] Chasing Coral was produced by Exposure Labs and directed by Jeff Orlowski.[2] It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released globally on Netflix as a Netflix Original Documentary in July 2017.[3] Jeff Orlowski has previously directed the movie Chasing Ice in 2012, which shares a similar plot to Chasing Coral.[4]

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In the Netflix Documentary Chasing Coral a team of photographers, divers and scientists spend more than three years in the field capturing and analyzing more than 500 hours of underwater footage from over 30 countries. Through their studies they are able to clearly illustrate the bleaching events and  real-time effects of warming seas, bringing to light the shocking visual evidence of climate change on our oceans.

… then you open your eyes and it’s dead as far as you can see ..

There’s no time to waste if there is to be any chance of saving this unique and marvelous underwater environment. We live at a moment in time where we can change history. Perhaps it’s not too late for our reefs. May this documentary truly awaken the world!

An emotional race against time – The New York Times

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Netflix ‘Chasing Coral’ – Bermuda Connection

A time-lapse camera was installed in Bermuda off the East End (St.George’s) but there is very little footage from the installation in the film as the camera was in the batch that went out of focus.  The Chasing Coral Team partnered with  the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) and had a great deal of help from Dr. Tim Noyes.

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