Polar Bears have symptoms of mystery Disease

This myserious disease outbreak was first noticed last summer. When about 60 seals were found dead and another 75 diseased, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Most of the affected seals are ringed seals, but diseased ribbon, bearded and spotted seals were also found. The nine polar bears from Beaufort Sea region near Barrow were found with some hair loss (patchy hair loss) and oozing sores on their skin. This is similar to how the disease affected the seals and walruses. But unlike those seals and walruses, the nine polar bears did not die, they were healthy says Tony DeGange the chief of the biology office for the USGS's Alaska Science Center. These nine polar bears were among the 33 that biologists have captured and sampled while doing routine studies on the Arctic coastline.

It is good to know that the polar bears that are one of the many animals that are going extinct are not dying from this mysterious disease, but that still brings the question of what is the cause and is it affecting other animal in the Arctic. For example, say some fisherman catch fish from the Arctic, and those fish are affected with the disease. What will the affects happen to a human that eats the animal. I know that is why we have science to go and do that kind of research so we don't kill people by what they eat. But in this article they are not giving much though on what is the disease, and any leads to where it could be coming from like a source.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/06/us-polarbears-idUSBRE8350MX20120406

James Cameron Dives to the Floor of Marian

I knew that once I heard about James Cameron going into the ocean, I just had to report about it. This is a man that shows a lot of heart into the environment and is trying to show the world what he sees.


James Cameron traveled in a submersible called Deepsea Challenger, descending to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The Trench is seven miles beneath the western Pacific Ocean, other explorers have tried to reach the bottom but some have lost their lives. Cameron made it to the bottom and back, and he plans to go back down again. What I find interesting about this type of submarine is that it shrinks as you  go down. I never knew that they can make a submarines can do that. Also I was amazed to see the map of how deep this trench goes. If you take Mt. Everest and flip it upside down, that is how deep this trench goes. I can't even swim to the bottom of the deep end of the pool with my ears hurting me. If I went that far down, I will lose my hearing, I am too young to lose my hearing.

What Cameron saw when he reached the  bottom was no life at all. He was sent down their to video record life and any other information of the bottom of the Mariana Trench for 6 hours. But only stayed their for three because of an oil spill (I think it was from his submarine), and made it back to the surface in 70 min.  It is no wonder why he is planning to go back, once they fix the problem he will go back and try to discover something new to bring to the world to see. He always does, it is in his nature as an explored. And I bet that in a few years he will make a movie based on this experience, or a IMAX documentary as he has done with his trip to the Titanic.

All I can say is that I wish I could see what he see, to have a job like he does and explore the world. I do hope that in his next trip down to this trench, that he does discover's something and for his safe return. There are lots of video links to this article, and all of them were very informative. I recommend watching them to see the stuff Cameron did record.  




http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/james-cameron-dives-floor-mariana-trench-deeper-everest/story?id=16003655#.T3pz53NuHrU