Drew Wharton: A Day in A Sealâs Life
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Together with his intrepid film crew, documentary filmmaker Drew Wharton often found himself within feet of enormous bellowing 4,500 pound alpha males clashing mightily over females in estrus. It is A Sealâs Life, after all. The film (which debuted at the Monterey Bay Aquarium) tells the story of the worldâs largest seal speciesâthe northern Elephant Sealâbehemoths that come ashore once a year to give birth, molt, and mate. âApple technology saves me a ton of time and money,â notes Wharton, who edited the film in Final Cut Studio. âOur whole workflow is based on Macs, from field acquisition to post production. A Sealâs Life was made on a Mac from start to finishâfor me, it didnât make sense to do it any other way.â
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John Maringouin is  filming a documentary about endurance swimmer Martin Strel, who  began a planned, 70-day swim Thursday, starting at the source  of the Amazon River in Peru and following the river until it  meets the Atlantic Ocean at Belem, Brazil.
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Network TV premiere of one of the most gripping and original thrillers of the past few years - with sharks.   Open Water tells the story of a couple in their thirties who get left behind on a scuba diving trip to the Caribbean.
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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Scientists investigating high mortality rates of seals say no fast answer has emerged. Reports of stranded seals have slowed to normal rates in recent weeks, but researchers continue to search for clues about what happened to the harbor seals last summer in Maine.
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Reality-challenged communications hub in works? That tiny speck of sovereign delusion known as Sealand will finally reclaim its former glory as a platform for pirate radio, the fantastical micronation hinted this week on its website, and Mike Newell, of Donnie Brasco fame, has agreed to direct a movie based on those very same pirate radio origins.â¦
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Travel: Bobbing about in a sea kayak among the seals of New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park can be a very calming experience, says Nick Taylor.
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One day after Burt Reynolds filed a lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Pamela Seals, claiming she was extorting him following their break up, Seals has filed a countersuit, claiming assault, emotional distress, breach of contract and more, and seeking half
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During the six-week Arctic expedition of the research ship Oden, photographer Chris Linder captured spectacular images, from polar bears navigating melting ice floes to the 14,330-ton ship breaking through massive chunks of ice.
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By Steve Connor  Thousands of species of marine animals have been discovered by a team of biologists investigating the rich ocean wildlife living around the Philippine island of Panglao.
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PHILADELPHIA-November 28, 2004 - Divers found a six-foot gash in a cargo tank on the Greek-owned tanker that leaked 30,000 of crude oil into the Delaware River, spokesmen for the Coast Guard and the vessel&#39;s owner said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON, March 2  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks by First Lady Laura Bush to the press after visiting the Hawaiian Monk Seal Captive Care Project    Midway Atoll    4:23 P.M.  (Local)    MRS.
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A nine-day mission that began Monday in the world's only permanent working undersea laboratory is like living in a fishbowl in more ways than one: Anyone with an Internet connection can watch the researchers work and hang out 60 feet below the surface.
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It's a sight New Englanders aren't entirely used to seeing: thousands of seals swimming through the Long Island Sound or hauling out to Maine, where they like to have their pups.
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Two decades ago, Greg Marshall was diving off the reefs of Belize studying queen conchs when he noticed a reef shark passing by with a remora clinging to its belly. The thought occurred to Marshall, who was then a graduate student in marine environmental science, that if a camera could be attached...
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Move over Rover, let Flipper take over. News from New Zealand suggests man&#39;s best friend is in fact the bottlenose dolphin. It emerged yesterday that four swimmers were saved from a great white shark by a