Check out Gary Hawkins’ film of this year’s La Jolla squid orgy. The big booms are seal bombs – meant to keep sea lions away from the nets. They also keep divers out of the water. Hawkins says:
We did not get in the water to film the underwater shots. The day we filmed the boats were actively fishing so there was danger from boat traffic. Also, seal bombs were being dropped in the water. Thus to get the underwater footage, we lowered a weighted videocam by rope and let it dangle beneath our boat. Hence the reason squid randomly come in and out of shot and the camera appears to bob up and down.
He got some great footage, though! You can also see the light boats shining very powerful lights into the water to lure up the mating squid. (That’s squid sex no-no #1.)
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Some time ago there has been a story in a paper about chasing away cormorants from commercial fishponds.
In France they have found out the call of an orca to work, an animal unknown to most birds produces a sound which scares the …………out of them.
They should try that here! There aren’t resident orcas, but the transient pods occasionally come by for some sealy snacks.
That’s an amazing video, Miriam! La Jolla is one of my favorite places in the world.
I’ll trade you La Jolla for a nice snowy winter!
I’ll take that trade!!
Hook me up with a lab out there, I’ll hook you up with one out here.
See my latest at eclecticechoes.com (granted it was a bad day) for snow, fire engines, castles and ocean all in one photo. We had the snowiest winter in 5 years. Still snow on the ground. Driving me NUTZ! Fortunately I’m off for three days to Ft. Lauderdale, trying to con my way into 6 months of research in Belize, but no one’s biting yet.