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“In a pearl was absorbed the restlessness of the sea.” Ghalib

Sea rover, activist, deep ecologist, vegan, 🇫🇮, integrated systems master marine technician.

with @chaoticgooddemon.bsky.social
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Officials warned of “locally catastrophic” river flooding in Washington state Wednesday amid a major atmospheric river storm that was poised to drop 20 inches of rain in the Cascade Range.

Two rivers north of Seattle, the Snohomish and Skagit rivers, were predicted to crest at record levels.
Atmospheric river dumping 20 inches of rain on West Coast mountain range
Dozens of rivers were forecast to spill their banks across the Pacific Northwest, as Washington state braced for its worst flooding in at least 16 years.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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#RIP Iain Douglas-Hamilton, aged 83
Iain Douglas-Hamilton obituary
Conservationist who devoted his life to the study and preservation of the African elephant
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“Catastrophic” Pacific Northwest floods leave 100,000 facing evacuation - NBC News
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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SBU Sea Baby struck the oil tanker Dashan, part of Russia’s "shadow fleet," in the Black Sea, — Ukrainian media

➡️  The vessel, flying the flag of the Comoros, was sailing in Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone toward the Novorossiysk port terminal with its transponder turned off
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Whoops.
This is problematic and here is why: VZ owes China a LOT of money and they don't have the money to pay their debt. They pay with oil. We just stole China's oil.

China is definitely going to want their oil.
US seized oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that the US had taken control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, a move which risks inflaming tensions with that country.
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.

Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Japan and South Korea scramble fighter jets in response to China and Russia’s joint patrols
Japan and South Korea scramble jets in response to China and Russia’s joint patrols
Japan says China and Russia’s show of force raises ‘serious concern for our national security’
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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On International Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasised the need to "reclaim" these fundamental values, which he says have been undermined in Europe.
Türk: 'Never take human rights for granted in any part of the world'
On International Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasised the need to "reclaim" these fundamental values, which he says have been undermined in Europe.
l.euronews.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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"9,000 metres under the sea: this researcher found the deepest animal ecosystems on Earth" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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9,000 metres under the sea: this researcher found the deepest animal ecosystems on Earth
Mengran Du is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Next to be serviced is the hand bearing compass to get that nasty bubble out of it.
December 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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As federal funding lags, a critical ocean weather system nears a breaking point

“If one of our buoys goes offline, I hear about it from fishermen [first]. What that tells me is that even a short outage really affects people.”
As federal funding lags, a critical ocean weather system nears a breaking point
NOAA delays could bring imprecise forecasts, endangering fishermen, ships, and coastal communities.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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SEW continues Coastal Flood Advisory valid at Dec 10, 7:00 AM PST for Lowlands of Western Skagit and Northwestern Snohomish Counties, Lowlands of Western Whatcom County, San Juan County [WA] till Dec 10, 1:00 PM PST Link
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Got the compass back from being serviced. Cross one of a thousand projects off the list.
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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A powerful atmospheric river sweeping across the Pacific Northwest this week is expected to dump more than a foot of rain and snow in the North Cascades and Olympics and cause major flooding in rivers that flow down from the mountains.
Atmospheric river brings ‘one-two punch’ of rain, wind, possible floods to Western Washington
A powerful atmospheric river sweeping across the Pacific Northwest this week is expected to dump more than a foot of rain and snow in the North Cascades and Olympics and cause major flooding in rivers...
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Whoa … this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

🎁 link ⤵️

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New refrigerator installed…hopefully that will change meal options.
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Today, a network of more than 200 seismic stations spans Alaska, and the National Weather Service has tsunami warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii. The NOAA officially terminated funding for nine of those stations, mostly in the seismically active Aleutian Islands, in September.
Nine Alaska seismic stations to go dark in January, slowing West Coast tsunami alerts
It was just before midnight when the tsunami that started with an earthquake in Alaska’s Prince William Sound reached Washington state.
www.opb.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"In all, the team removed more than 300 feet of rope from Division. Thompson said it was clear the gear wasn’t from the Southeast. That rope will be examined further to determine its exact origin."

thecurrentga.org/2025/12/06/i...
In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast - The Current
A team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources disentangled a four-year-old male North Atlantic right whale, nicknamed Division, from commercial fishing gear after two days of exhausting and ...
thecurrentga.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM