Safety and Seaplanes | Hakai Magazine
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Seaplanes are, by definition, aircraft that can use water as a runway for take offs and landings. Perhaps the most common seaplanes are floatplanes, which have pontoons. My classmates are professional pilots, often at the controls of floatplanes, along with one healthcare worker who travels often by floatplane to remote communities.
Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris - Hakai Magazine
WEBAug 17, 2021 · In December 2020, British woman Jodie Crews posted photos online of a mysterious object she’d found at a beach. One helpful respondent suggested poking the object with a hot pin to see if it smoked, a common (if unreliable) test for ambergris. Crews did, and the object exploded into flames, setting fire to her kitchen.
Are COVID-19 Lockdowns Really Causing Nature to Heal?
WEBMay 26, 2021 · Share. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold last spring and people around the world went into lockdown, a certain type of news story started to spring up—the idea that, in the absence of people, nature was returning to a healthier, more pristine state. There were viral reports of dolphins in the canals of …
Iceland’s Confusing Inter-cetacean Conflict | Hakai Magazine
WEBSep 23, 2021 · Interactions between killer and pilot whales have only been scientifically documented a few times, and Samarra is among the first scientists to have observed this behavior in Iceland. Since the 2015 encounter, she’s seen similar interactions around 20 times. Iceland’s pilot whales may be assuming that the killer whales in the area, which ...
Fish Feel Pain. Now What? - Hakai Magazine
WEBJan 2, 2018 · It’s likely different from what humans feel, but it is still a kind of pain.”. At the anatomical level, fish have neurons known as nociceptors, which detect potential harm, such as high temperatures, intense pressure, and caustic chemicals. Fish produce the same opioids—the body’s innate painkillers—that mammals do.
When Rubber Hits the Road—and Washes Away | Hakai Magazine
WEBNov 24, 2020 · Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. The storm unleashed one evening in late November 2018. The first splashes of rain wet the streets of Oakland, California, with a smell like damp stone. Then, a crescendo of water pounded roofs, drops …
What the Ancient Oyster Knows - Hakai Magazine
WEBSep 13, 2016 · Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. Stephen Durham ignores the cold water seeping into his hiking boots as he wades into a shallow, brackish creek wending through a salt marsh in Madison, Connecticut. With each step, shells crunch under his feet and he sentences a …
The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer | Hakai Magazine
WEBOct 6, 2020 · St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska. Marooned in the Bering Sea halfway to Siberia, it is well over 300 kilometers and a 24-hour ship ride from the nearest human settlements. It looks fittingly forbidding, the way it emerges from its drape of fog like the dark spread of a wing.
Treasure Fever - Hakai Magazine
WEBJan 14, 2020 · They recovered over 18,000 silver coins. The world’s most famous explorer of the high seas, Mel Fisher, won rights to Spain’s Nuestra Señora de Atocha, which sunk near the Dry Tortugas islands, over 56 kilometers west of Key West, Florida, in 1622. The discovery was valued at nearly $400-million.
The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the …
WEBSep 13, 2022 · In the fourth century BCE, Aristotle proclaimed that eels spontaneously generated within “the entrails of the earth” and that they didn’t have genitals. The no-genital theory held for generations. Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder asserted that eels rubbed against rocks and their dead skin “scrapings come to life.”.