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OUR OCEANS: WHO NEEDS 'EM?

Subject: lost at sea (hats, that is)

Comments:
Jeff's comment refers to an episode we had on the boat last week when my hat blew overboard. I should have had it tied on better.

This was a visor cap, and I hope it sunk. Most of them do.

but some visor caps neither float or sink but lie suspended a few feet below the surface of the water.

Once while racing in Florida my Laser caught a visor cap on its centerboard (like a keel). My boat was so slow that I finished dead last--way behind the rest of the fleet. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, until I crossed the finish line and let the boat drift.

It was then that I saw the hat float out from under the boat.

Hang on to your hats, sailors.

Hang on to your winch handles too.

Captain Dick Lathrop

- Captain, Sun Aug 13 21:44:02 2006

Subject: Dangerous Hat Ocean Polution Conspiracy

Comments:
Hi Capt. L.

How many Hats, Visors, and Caps lost overboard will it take effect the dangerous rising ocean the water levels? Will Congress be meeting about this issue? We don't need to mention anything about winch handles...

Thanks

- Jeff, Fri Aug 11 22:49:02 2006

Subject: Kat's question

Comments:
Kat,

Thanks for joining our discussion zone. Connecticut's highest point is 2355 feet above sea level, but most of the state is about 1000 feet above sea level. Here in New London, of course, we are practically at sea level--which is why we sometives have flooding if a storm hits during a very high tide. (This happened in the Hurricane of 1938)

Captain Lathrop

- Captain Lathrop, Mon Jun 17 21:35:02 2002

Subject: sea level

Comments:
How many feet above sea level is CT?

- Kat, Mon Jun 17 20:48:57 2002

Subject: Salmon

Comments:
To North Haven Middle School Salmon Club and other web site visitors:

THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS DISCUSSION!!!

I have a couple of questions?

How long do each of these stages last?

Where do you get the eggs?

How big are the salmon when you release them?

- Dick Lathrop, Tue Jun 5 22:15:56 2001

Subject: Salmon Development

Comments:
The first stage in a salmon's life is eyed egg. After a while, this fish soon becomes an alevin, which has a yoke sack to feed from. Eventually, the yoke sack dissapears and the salmon become fry at which the slamon were released from our care and brought back to the river. Soon, they get to the stage of becoming a parr and then a smolt. The salmon later develop into adult fish and finally are full grown into proportions.

- NHMS Salmon Club, Tue Jun 5 08:36:34 2001

Subject: Salmon Restoration Project

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Our school participated in salmon restoration project with the Conneticut DEP.This was our 6th year in the program. We returned 172 salmon fry to a tributary of the Conneticut River on May 4th. While we had the salmon we kept a chart and recorded each day the temperature of the water,the developmental index, and we watched them grow from eggs alevin and finally to fry.This program really makes a diference in our understanding of the salmon and helping in their survival.

- NHMS Atlantic Salmon, Fri Jun 1 08:40:00 2001

Subject: Global Warming

Comments:
Linda,
We see physical signs of global warming when rock appear on mountain peaks usually covered in ice year round. We hear that the polar ice caps are melting and the water is making sea level rise.

These changes spell problems for coastal cities and islands. What is now the shoreline will, some day in the not-too-distant future, be under water.

I would like to hear more about this from our readers. I would also like to focus on what global warming means to creatures living in the sea. The lobster, for instance, likes cold water. It doesn't live any farther south than Long Island Sound. If Long Island Sound warms up, what happens to the lobster? What other sea critters would be affected by rising ocean temperatures?

Write in your information.

Captain L.

- Captain Lathrop, Sun Mar 11 00:34:21 2001

Subject: Global Warming

Comments:
Dear Captain Lathrop,

What effect will Global Warming have on the depth and conditions of the oceans?

I have read that the Glaciers are melting away and more and more rock is showing on the peaks. Tree growth will change. Forests and their inhabitants will have to adapt or will change. Maple syrup may no longer be an agricultural process in NH.

Linda

- Linda, Thu Mar 8 18:38:53 2001

Subject: ice berg the size of Connecticut

Comments: I read about this ice berg in the New York Times today and found this article about it on the web.

Does anyone know any more about it? I would like to know its longitude and latitude and find out how fast it's moving. Where will it go?

Issue: April 1, 2000

In the biggest icebreaking event in a century, an iceberg roughly the size of Connecticut has split off(red arrows) from Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and may soon drift into the Ross Sea, scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced March 22.

Satellite photos show that the iceberg is 295 kilometers long and 37 km wide. That may be a record, says meteorologist Matthew Lazzara, who is tracking the iceberg via satellite from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "It's at least got to be a record in length," he says.

It may take several months for the giant iceberg to float out to sea. "This one hasn't moved too far from its parking space yet," Lazzara says. When it does, polar scientists are concerned that the iceberg may block shipping lanes to NSF's McMurdo Station, located only 200 miles from the iceberg's birthplace.

The breaking off of this iceberg is probably part of the normal process of ice-shelf growth and loss and not a consequence of global warming, Lazzara says.

- Captain Lathrop, Tue Feb 20 20:29:59 2001