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As predicted, the striped bass action picked up this week on the downside of the full moon. There was a Montauk-style blitz of bass and blues that took place Sunday in 60 feet of water south of the Manasquan Inlet. Boaters reported seeing big blues and bass pushing the bait to the surface and striking. Striped bass weighed up to 20 pounds and the bluefish were in the 6- to 12-pound range. One of the largest striped bass was 28 pounds, caught by Charlie Keintz on the Sea Hunter out of Atlantic Highlands.
Ocean temperature is 59 degrees as we begin November. By the end of the month, it should drop another 10 degrees. That's when action should heat up as the bait congregates and moves south. November is when we see massive concentrations of peanut bunker leaving back bays and rivers to rea...
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BRUSSELS - The flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range that lies as much as four miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
In those remote, forbidding waters between Brazil and West Africa, variations in temperature and salinity can reduce visibility and obscure homing signals from the devices. And for salvage crews, time is short because the "black boxes" will only emit signals for a month.
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... Nuclear Plant is located between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and a tidally influenced estuary... release heated water with a proposed temperature increase of 2 degrees Fahrenheit (degF) (1.1 degre...
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BRUSSELS - The flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range that lies as much as four miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
In those remote, forbidding waters between Brazil and West Africa, variations in temperature and salinity can reduce visibility and obscure homing signals from the devices. And for salvage crews, time is short because the "black boxes" will only emit signals for a month.
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Rising homeowners insurance premiums will soon hit many Louisiana residents' checkbooks.The Louisiana Department of Insurance has OK'd average premium rate increases above 10 percent for seven insurance companies in the state. To increase a premium more than 10 percent annually, insurance companies must go before the Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission.Under Louisiana's flex band law, state insurers can raise or drop premiums up to 10 percent without going before the LIRC. Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual, with 70,063 policyholders in Louisiana, increased rates the most at 49.15 percent, while Lafayette Insurance Co. (11,006 Louisiana policyholders) will push rates 37.9 percent higher and American Reliable Insurance (18,522 Louisiana policyholders) will go up 34.36 percent.Some residents ...
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... include milder air, water, or soil temperatures, availability of food or water, lack of predators ...Conversely, in the open ocean, billions of organisms ranging from plankton to sq...It includes areas bordering the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Long ...
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After all the hype, this hurricane season has not panned out as expected, yet. Hurricane season runs from June 1 until the end of November, the time when the water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico is at least 80 degrees, the temperature hurricanes need to develop. This is why hurricanes do not affect the West Coast, where water temperatures are in the 50s and 60s. Hurricanes need warm water, the right atmospheric conditions, and to avoid land in order to survive. Although hurricane season starts in June, it takes a while to heat up, like an oven. It is not uncommon to have a few small tropical named storms in June with winds of at least 39 mph, as in this season, but the peak of the hurricane season is Sept. 9. There is a 90% chance of at least one hurricane in the A...
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Scuba diving in Bonaire
Members of the 1877 Scuba USA dive team recently traveled to Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) and stayed at the Buddy Dive Resort for a week of scuba diving, learning and fun in the sun.
...We stayed at the Renaissance Marriott Ocean Suites in Oranjestad about 10 minutes from the air... Madeira, an island off Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean. It has an average temperature of 75 degrees...
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...Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 50 CFR Parts 223 a... a petition to list the ``Western North Atlantic populations of loggerhead sea turtle'' as an endan...Recent warm temperatures during interglacial periods allowed bi-directional...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of tropical storms developing annually in the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the increase taking place in two jumps, researchers say.
The increases coincided with rising sea surface temperature, largely the byproduct of human-induced climate warming, researchers Greg J. Holland and Peter J. Webster concluded. Their findings were being published online Sunday by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.