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Online Shark Course

Jett & Kathryn Britnell Posted onOctober 1, 2017March 24, 2019 Comments are off

“Ancora Imparo” – I’m still learning

~ Michelangelo at age 87

Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation Course

Although I have studied and admired sharks since I was five years old, not unlike Michelangelo, I am still learning. Way back in grade five, I gave an interest talk about sharks to my fellow school classmates. This was several years before the blockbuster movie thriller JAWS was released worldwide in theatres. Suffice to say, sharks have been a lifelong passion.

Last summer (2016) I did this free online course, “Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation.” Here is the web link:

Online Shark Course

This is an activity‑rich shark biology course wherein you can virtually join researchers on location in labs, aquariums, and oceans across the globe to learn about the biodiversity, biology, and conservation of sharks, rays, and chimaeras. The course material also covers a range of topics such as, shark habitats, fossil records, how sharks and their relatives have impacted human history and culture, functional anatomy, sensory biology, reproduction, behaviours, and ecology of many of the 1,200 living shark species. All in all, a shark frenzy of knowledge that even the most ardent shark lover is sure to learn something new and fascinating about sharks.

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Spiny Dogfish – Long Distance Ocean Travellers

Jett & Kathryn Britnell Posted onJune 19, 2017March 24, 2019 Comments are off
 

Spiny dogfish inhabit colder waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from shallows to nearly 700 metres (2,300 feet) deep. Found in all the world’s temperate oceans, the spiny dogfish is a small schooling shark that forms groups of hundreds, or thousands, of individuals of the same sex and size.  The average length is between 75 and 105 cm (30 to 40 inches), however, individuals have been known to grow to 130 cm (50 inches) weighing 9 kg (20lbs).

Spiny dogfish sharks are long-distance travelers. One spiny dogfish tagged and released from Washington State showed up off the coast of Japan ~ a 8,046 kilometer (5,000 mile) ocean journey!

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“Woman Wanted” – Sedna Epic Expedition 2014 / 2018

Jett & Kathryn Britnell Posted onMarch 31, 2016March 24, 2019 Comments are off
Woman Wanted Sedna Epic Expedition

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ~ J.K. Rowling

Huffington Post Canada has just featured a story on the “Women Wanted” advertisement that Canadian explorer Susan R. Eaton recently designed to recruit sea women for an epic, 3,000-kilometre “all woman” extreme snorkel relay of the Northwest Passage during the summers of 2017 and 2018.

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Canadian Explorer Susan R. Eaton

Susan commented, “My advertisement shamelessly ‘mirrors’ the advertisement that Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton allegedly ran, in a British newspaper, one hundred years ago.”

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Sedna Epic Expedition map

Here is the link for the Huffington Post piece which provides greater background on the Sedna Epic Expedition and its exploration objectives. (here)

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Susan R. Eaton, Sedna’s visionary expedition leader, is also a renowned geologist, geophysicist, journalist, polar snorkeler and conservationist based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was also recently named “one of Canada’s top 100 modern-day explorers by Canadian Geographic Magazine.”

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Sedna Epic Expedition team

For more information about the Sedna Epic Expedition and for ways you can help support this exploratory endeavour, the link is (here).

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