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Ocean Vet Bermuda – Neil Burnie

September 19, 2017 Published by bermudians

Swimming and satellite tagging huge tiger sharks, saving precious green sea turtles, protecting mighty humpback whales, exploring the anatomy of a giant blue Marlin and saving the life of a prehistoric shark. It’s all just another day in the office for the Ocean Vet team.

Ocean Vet is a natural history series like no other!

Narrated by Academy award winning actor and producer Michael Douglas, this incredible series follows the exploits of English veterinarian Dr Neil Burnie and his Ocean Vet team.

Together they set out to save, protect and learn more about Bermuda’s incredible marine life. Watch Neil and Choy Aming (series marine biologist) work with some of the planets most amazing marine species.

Neil’s enthusiasm is truly infectious, his ‘hands-on’ approach and the teams dedication to saving marine wildlife makes compulsive viewing.

Michael Douglas’s familiar and authoritative tone narrates 11 incredible adventures in and around the ocean of one of the most stunning islands on earth.

Watch as Neil and his crew enter a watery world teeming with stunning marine life but fraught with danger from big teeth, poisonous barbs and 50 tonne giants! Hitch a ride on an incredible journey of discovery right here, right now!

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1.	The Galapagos Shark	22:04
2.	Eagle Rays	24:01
3.	Tiger Taggers	24:01
4.	The Mighty Marlin	23:10
5.	The Bermuda Turtle Project	23:31
6.	The Sixgill Shark	23:16
7.	The Bermuda Black Grouper	23:27
8.	Night Sharks	23:01
9.	Humpback Whale	23:24
10.	Sargasso Sea	23:57
11.	Diaries	23:56

Episode 01 : The Galapagos SharkNeil and the team are on an emergency call out to capture and release a sick Galapagos shark from the Bermuda aquarium. Follow the team as they risk their lives.Neil must transport a shark 10 miles off shore for release in a protected marine reserve. Watch Neil and his team swim with wild Galapagos sharks. They’ll study their behaviour, and discover the truth behind their reputation as wild man eaters. The Ocean Vet team also embark on the challenging task of capturing one of these predators. The team must bring the shark onboard the ocean vet boat and attach a satellite tag. This marks the start of a scientific study that will eventually help protect the declining population of this species.

Episode 02 : Eagle Rays

Neil and the Ocean Vet team are faced with an intense day of veterinary work. International scientist Dr Matt Ajemian and aquarium collector Chris Flook join the crew. They face a tricky task, capturing one of the most intelligent fish in the ocean. The crew must check the health of these endangered spotted eagle rays. Watch as the team attach satellite tracking tags, take DNA samples, and ultrasound these animals in some of Bermudas most beautiful surroundings. The teams research could provide answers to long standing questions on the health of this species.

Episode 03 : Tiger Taggers

Neil and the Ocean Vet team mark the end of a 7 year study on Bermuda’s tiger sharks. The team embark on a dangerous mission to satellite tag one of these giant oceanic predators. Watch as Neil and Choy enter the water with these majestic animals in a mind boggling and death defying sequence of human interaction with these wild predators. Follow the team as they struggle to catch and tag the biggest tiger shark they’ve ever encountered. Can they complete their mission to help study, save and protect this incredible shark species?

Episode 04 : The Mighty Marlin

Neil manages to expand his veterinary knowledge and test his fishing skills to their limit. The mighty marlin is one of the teams most exciting adventures. Watch as Neil and the Ocean Vet team wrestle a monster marlin to the side of their boat. The team must attach a satellite tag that could expand the scientific knowledge of this species and reveal its oceanic migrations. Watch Neil and his team dissect a giant blue marlin donated by a local fishing tournament. Neil explains the anatomical and evolutionary wonders of this animal and demonstrates how it’s become one of the fastest and most formidable predators in the ocean.

Episode 05 : The Bermuda Turtle ProjectNeil deploys his veterinary skills to help save Bermuda’s Green sea turtles. Watch 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.

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. After Dr Neil Burnie’s tragic death, the narration for the series was completed by Michael Douglas.

Episode 06 : The Sixgill Shark

Neil tests his diving abilities to the max.On this dangerous rescue mission to save the life of a prehistoric shark. Follow the ocean vet team as they assist a commercial fishing vessel to untangle a six gill shark from its fishing lines. Watch Neil and Choy come face to face with a real life fossil as they secure this prehistoric shark to the side of the boat. It’s challenging work in testing conditions. The team only have a limited time to ensure the animal survives.

Episode 07 : The Bermuda Black Grouper

Neil combines his veterinary knowledge and dive skills to assist the Bermuda department of fisheries. On this exciting and dangerous mission Neil and his ocean vet team help protect the breeding grounds of the Bermuda black grouper. Watch Neil anaesthetise these fish to surgically implant acoustic tags. Neil also trials a dangerous but less invasive grouper tagging system and deploys a uniquely designed grouper trap. Follow Neil and the team as they explore a deep alien world. Along the way Neil comes face to face with one of the largest threats to the atlantic ocean, the invasive lion fish!

Episode 08 : Night Sharks

Neil and his Ocean Vet team embark on a dangerous new study. Neil heads into Bermuda’s nocturnal waters to document inshore shark activity. Watch Neil complete a series of dangerous night dives in potentially shark infested waters. Follow Neil and his team as they implant an acoustic tag in the abdomen of a juvenile tiger shark. The tag is crucial to their study. It should reveal the frequency and proximity of sharks in Bermudas night time waters. Testing their nerves and stamina to its absolute limits, this proves to be one of the teams toughest missions.

Episode 09 : Humpback Whale

Follow Neil and his team into the danger zone as they get up close and personal with 50 tonne humpbacks. Neil and Choy work with a team of marine scientists on an expedition to prove the presence of deadly toxins inside Bermuda’s mid-migratory humpback whales. Watch Neil and his team swim with these ocean giants in a mesmerising and magical sequence as Neil comes face to face with one of the most intelligent mammals in the ocean. Neil deploys an effective but unconventional sampling technique, collecting biopsy samples using an adapted compound bow. Choy has a dangerous encounter investigating a report of several hungry sharks tearing apart a dead sperm whale.

Episode 10 : Sargasso Sea

Working alongside veteran aquarium collector Chris Flook Neil and Choy reveal the crucial role sargassum seaweed plays in the health of the entire ocean. Watch as Neil and his team explore the deep sea structure of Argus tower. Join Neil as he dives Bermuda’s inshore mangrove bays. Watch Neil observe and learn the intricacies of this delicate food web. Follow the team as they collect samples for an exhibit at the Bermuda aquarium museum and zoo. The teams exhibit will show local school children the unique and wonderous species that live within these golden rainforests of the ocean. Finally the team attach a satellite tracking tag to a fish that thrives amongst these floating seaweed matts, the wondrous Wahoo!

Episode 11 : Diaries

The final episode of Ocean Vet goes behind the scenes, providing an insight how the series was made. The crew look back and reveal their favourite moments, close calls and toughest challenges. In this final episode we discover exactly what it took for Neil to become Bermuda’s Ocean Vet. Finally, Michael Douglas reveals the tragedy of Neil’s death. The crew reveal the impact on their lives, and talk frankly about his unique, larger than life character.

OCEAN TECH – Mission 1 #Bermuda @OceanTechGlobal

July 24, 2017 Published by bermudians

Ocean Tech – a collaborative marine research project, global education programme and media campaign. Bringing together the world’s top marine scientists with unique military grade autonomous underwater vehicles to undertake the most advanced analysis of marine ecosystems. The data aims to determine critical habitat for marine species to justify the establishment of marine protected areas around the world.

Phase 1 of Ocean Tech takes place in Bermuda. The waters around Bermuda play a vital role in the lives of many species of fish and mammals including galapagos sharks, dusky sharks, tiger sharks, spotted eagle rays, giant tarpon and humpback whales. The autonomous underwater vehicles we will use are capable of closely following and filming the animals, and for the first time by using onboard sensors, scanners and cameras we will be able to reveal a complete picture of how each species interacts with its environment. This data can then be used to justify marine protected areas at policy level.

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Our goal is to collaboratively inspire children and adults to become better stewards of the marine environment both in Bermuda and around the world.

Ocean Tech is a Bermuda Registered Charity No. 980. The charity operates unique marine research missions that provide scientific data to help develop areas of marine protection. The first mission is taking place in Bermuda during 2018 and 2019.

Florian Jung Windsurfing @ Horseshoe Bay Beach, Bermuda

July 23, 2017 Published by bermudians

Back in 2015 a friend put me in touch with a catamaran visiting the island with professional windsurfer Florian Jung. They were on a mission called the Aquapower Expedition to research plastic waste in the oceans and visit new places. While in Bermuda Florian and his professional photographer Pierre Bouras asked me if I could take them to some local spots for windsurfing and good photos.

Finding a good spot on that day wasn’t so easy but in the end we settled on Horseshoe beach as Pierre wanted shots with jagged volcanic shoreline in the foreground. It proved to be a tricky spot to sail with the many reefs, sloppy backwash and swirly wind off the cliff faces! I was sent out with a Garmin head camera to try and get on the water footage, which wasn’t the easiest when trying to keep up in such sloppy conditions!

In the end Pierre got his shots and it was nice for me to learn a bit about their expedition and life as a professional windsurfer.

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@AmericasCup #Bermuda Turtle Dilemma @bestbermuda

May 29, 2017 Published by bermudians

The removal of sea turtles from Bermuda’s waters ahead of the upcoming America’s Cup raises serious “ethical dilemmas”, admit the country’s leading environmental groups.

In preparation for a period of intense “marine traffic”, caused by the arrival of a fleet of 50-foot catamarans for the upcoming America’s Cup, various local authorities are temporarily relocating the growing number of sea turtles that inhabit Bermuda’s near-shore waters.

The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST), however, has warned that …

Update:

Turtles released back into the wild – RG Almost 50 turtles caught in the Great Sound during the America’s Cup have been released after being temporarily held in Harrington Sound

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66 hours #Bermuda #NewYork in the World’s 1st Off-Shore Catamaran @RedBull

November 16, 2016 Published by bermudians

In early November, four thrill-seeking sailors navigated 660 miles from New York to Bermuda in just 66 hours. They were not traveling in luxury aboard a heavy-duty boat, with creature comforts and the ample horsepower required for most open-ocean voyages. These daredevils relied on a foiling boat—those small, blazingly fast seacraft usually seen flying along coastlines. Sailing this things across open water was once too dangerous to even attempt. Now it’s possible thanks to reengineering how these boats work and what they’re made from.

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A Plastic Sea #Bermuda @KBBdotBM @greenrockorg

October 4, 2016 Published by bermudians

In the Sargasso Sea and around Bermuda, fragments from the breakdown of plastics, especially single-use plastics, are accumulating in sea life, and we are all responsible. The impact of plastic and its impact in the oceans is gaining increasing attention, and this film succinctly presents the problems—and hints at a solution to reversing some of them. – Justin Lewis & Michelle Stauffer

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#Bermuda Non-Mariners Race 2012

September 23, 2016 Published by bermudians

Deep Sea Dive into #Bermuda ’s Hidden Depths @guardianvideo

August 18, 2016 Published by bermudians

Guardian environment reporter Oliver Milman joins a group of scientists on an underwater expedition off the Bermuda coast to help chart its hidden depths and gauge the general health of the area’s reef and coral. Travelling in a two-man submersible, Milman and submarine pilot Kelvin Magee go on a journey 500ft below the surface

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#Kitesurfing #Bermuda @WatchKMTV

April 20, 2016 Published by bermudians

Kite surfing in Bermuda – Sunken ships and lost aircraft nourish the myth!

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Kitesurfen auf den Bermudas – Gesunkene Schiffe und verschollene Flugzeuge nähren den Mythos um Kitereisen in das sagenumwobene Bermuda Dreieck.

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Has Science Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery?

March 23, 2016 Published by bermudians

The Bermuda Triangle. The very name conjures images of vanished ships, missing planes, and swirling, supernatural forces at play. For decades, this roughly triangular area in the North Atlantic Ocean, bounded by Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico, has been a hotbed of speculation and intrigue. While often sensationalized, the sheer number of reported disappearances within its boundaries is undeniable, fueling countless theories about what might be happening beneath the waves and in the skies above. But has science finally cracked the code, explaining the enigma of the Bermuda Triangle?

Recently, the Bermuda Triangle has resurfaced in the news, thanks to a research paper from Arctic University of Norway. Their findings, focusing on oceanic methane bubbles, propose a compelling explanation for some of the mysterious disappearances. The researchers demonstrated how massive “blowouts” of methane gas, released from the seabed, can create enormous air pockets. These pockets, they argue, could be large enough to engulf ships, causing them to sink rapidly with little to no trace.

The Norwegian team’s observations and explanations centered on the Barents Sea, a region far removed from the warm waters of the Bermuda Triangle. However, the implications of their research have sparked considerable interest. The idea that similar methane releases could occur in the Sargasso Sea, the area encompassing the Bermuda Triangle, offers a plausible, scientific explanation for the disappearances. This theory suggests that ships encountering such methane bubbles could suddenly lose buoyancy and sink without a chance to send out a distress call.

While the methane bubble theory provides a potential natural explanation, it’s important to note that the scientific community hasn’t universally embraced it as the definitive answer. The Bermuda Triangle’s history of disappearances stretches back centuries, long before the modern era of sophisticated scientific observation. Attributing all these incidents to methane releases may be an oversimplification.

Other Proposed Explanations:

The Bermuda Triangle’s mystique has inspired a plethora of theories, ranging from the plausible to the outlandish. Here are a few of the other explanations that have been put forward over the years:

Hurricanes and Storms: The region is known for its frequent and intense storms. Sudden and unpredictable weather patterns could easily overwhelm ships and planes, especially in earlier eras with less advanced navigational tools.
Gulf Stream: The powerful Gulf Stream current flows through the Bermuda Triangle. Its strong and rapidly changing currents could easily carry debris far from the site of a sinking, making wreckage difficult to locate.
Human Error: A significant portion of incidents can likely be attributed to human error, including navigational mistakes, pilot error, and mechanical failures.
Rogue Waves: These unusually large and unpredictable waves can appear suddenly and pose a significant threat to ships.
Electronic Fog: This theory posits that unusual atmospheric conditions can create a kind of “electronic fog” that interferes with compasses and other navigational equipment.
Supernatural or Extraterrestrial Involvement: Of course, no discussion of the Bermuda Triangle would be complete without mentioning the more fantastical theories involving everything from sea monsters to portals to other dimensions.

The Reality of the Situation:

Despite the persistent myths and legends, statistical analysis suggests that the Bermuda Triangle is no more dangerous than any other heavily trafficked area of the ocean. The number of disappearances, while seemingly high, is proportional to the amount of traffic that passes through the region. Furthermore, many incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle have been exaggerated or misrepresented over time.

The Ongoing Mystery:

While science has offered some compelling explanations, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle continues to fascinate. The methane bubble theory is a significant contribution to our understanding, but it’s unlikely to be the single, definitive answer to all the disappearances. The complex interplay of natural phenomena, human factors, and the inherent unpredictability of the sea means that the Bermuda Triangle will likely remain a topic of discussion and speculation for years to come. Perhaps the real mystery isn’t what is happening in the Bermuda Triangle, but rather why we are so drawn to the idea of a place where the normal rules don’t seem to apply.

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The Bermuda Triangle has been in the headlines recently thanks to a paper by Arctic University of Norway researchers showing oceanic methane bubbles can cause “enormous blowouts,” air pockets large enough to swallow ships.

The giant bubbles observed and explained by the Norwegian team were in the Barents Sea, which is nowhere near Bermuda or a decent Dark and Stormy, but a similar phenomenon could — the thinking goes — result in mysterious disappearances. The research posits as probable a theory as any for the disappearance of boats in the Sargasso Sea.

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Eastern Blue Cut #Bermuda

March 6, 2016 Published by bermudians

Sunday afternoon in November in Bermuda at Eastern Blue Cut on the northern edge of the Bermuda platform where the water is still around 70 feet or less deep some five miles north of Dockyard in Somerset. The water is mirror-calm, warm enough to swim in without a wet suit and the top of the beacon provides a bird’s eye view of the surrounding coral reefs in crystal clear waters.

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Whale Battle #Bermuda

March 3, 2016 Published by bermudians

Between the month of March and April every year about 10,000 whales go by Bermuda.

The island’s sea mount is a final pit stop for the entire North Atlantic humpback whale population on their swim north out of the Caribbean before they break off into their various sub-populations.

This short film uses new drone technology alongside underwater film to capture spectacular footage of a mother humpback whale and her calf and her escort’s battle with several contenders …

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Category: Ocean

Ocean Vet Bermuda – Neil Burnie

Swimming and satellite tagging huge tiger sharks, saving precious green sea turtles, protecting mighty humpback whales, exploring the anatomy of a giant blue Marlin and saving the life of a prehistoric shark. It’s all just another day in the office for the Ocean Vet team.