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Gulf Screaming

by: KNUCKLEHEAD

Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 02:25:12 AM EDT

(take another look
at what we are losing to greed

- promoted by RiaD)

Here I am once again & as promised I will only post images of life that is not visible from the surface.
Many people tend to think that life in our oceans consists mostly of fish, crabs, shrimp, & shellfish, like oysters, scallops clams & snails, plus mammals like dolphins, whales, & I have to also mention turtles, the darlings of the gulf.
What many don`t realize is that the above mentioned species make up a small fraction of the biodiversity of the oceans.
In the following images, try & look beyond the main subject, & look to the backgrounds of the images. Every bit of color is a living organism.
The purple on the reef structure is coralline algae.
Every little nook & cranny has little "bugs" living in them.
Every little filament you see is some kind of worm.
The reef is covered with billions & billions of life forms, & I`m just talking about these numbers, pertaining to my reef tanks.The sand at the bottom contains billions of these per cubic inch.
Now these are the bottom of the food chain, but also sometimes the first to die off when the water chemistry is changed by even parts per billion.
When the first link in the food chain is destroyed, the other links fall apart in rapid succession. That`s why I post these images. They are not spectacular in any way as images, but as examples of the spectacular life in the oceans that the planet depends on.
Regardless of their microscopic sizes.

KNUCKLEHEAD :: Gulf Screaming

Giant Cup
(Elephant Ear)

Tiger Sea Cucumber

Clownfish in Trumpet Coral

Copperband Butterflyfish
(Coral banded Shrimp)

Copperband with Goldentail Eel

Seaweed
(unidentified)

Pajama Cardinalfish
(Green Torch Coral)

Green Polyps

Sharknose Goby
(Two Christmastree Worms

"Prancing" Starfish
(Long Spined Urchin)

Feather Duster Worm

Starfish & Green Zoas

Fuzzy Finger Leather
(Long Spined Urchin)

Mushroom Group

Humbug

Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp

Coral Banded Shrimp

Six Line Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Hawkfish

Reverse Goldentail Eel
(All Kinds Of Things)

Blastomusa & Brown Polyps

A bunch of fish & corals

Pajama Cardinalfish Being Cleaned

Tomato Clownfish

Maroon Clownfish

Blue Tang

Yellow Tang

Green Torch Coral & Goby

Pygmy Angelfish & Hawkfish

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Gulf Screaming | 32 comments

Dreaming Screaming (15.00 / 8)

All these images were shot in my reef tanks.

Imagine if the life in the gulf was all dead.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 06:26:32 AM UTC

Oh, KH, I have been imagining (14.00 / 4)

nothing else but that since the whole clusterfuck began. Words fail me. Fury, disgust with all the private enterprises involved as well as the Chimp's administration and its determination to undermine all regulations, despair: and a belief that the Gulf is dying and will not recover in our lifetimes as a result of sheer immoral greed.

Now I'm off to Orange to see whether you've cross-posted there & give a rec if you have.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 06:41:50 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Youffraita (14.00 / 4)

I`ll post there at midnight.
Thank you very much.
The killing of the gulf is sickening me.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 06:46:34 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Gulf Coast (15.00 / 5)

Cross posted here
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

At BooMans
At DD
At Wimpy Badger.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 07:18:42 AM UTC

thanks from the heart, knuck (15.00 / 4)

for keeping the Gulf front and center. amazing and heartbreaking pics... will the man-made death of the Gulf, of our planet ever end?

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm

by: newpioneer @ Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 16:26:59 PM UTC

Newpioneer (13.80 / 5)

It`s a certainty that man will die before the planet, a small comfort at this point.
It`s like those who shoot up a children`s school, killing innocents, then turn the gun on themselves.
They have the order wrong.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 01:27:52 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

So much beauty (15.00 / 4)

and life. Humans are such destructive selfcentered people.

Is that one fish really called a Humbug? We have a marina here called Humbug, and a Humbug Island, but the marina sign has bees on it and not a fish. Which is really odd come to think of it because all the businesses here have to have water related signs, like fish, lighthouses, or dock posts and ropes. One of our businesses even has the front of a boat attached to the front of it. It looks really stupid and they even shrink wrapped it for the winter last year.

by: Alma @ Sat Jul 10, 2010 at 19:02:27 PM UTC

Alma (15.00 / 5)

It`s a Damselfish, & one of the species is called Humbug Dascyllus, & although the one pictured is not of the "Humbugs", many reefers refer to all Dascyllus as such. The one pictured is really a Blacktailed Dascyllus.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 01:42:41 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Amongst The Waves (15.00 / 4)

What can I say about the pics that hasn't been said?

Nice riding with you, Knuck.

by: Timbuk3 @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 04:09:38 AM UTC

Timbuk3 (13.60 / 5)

Thanks very much.
Blacktop down, sun in your face, wind at your back.
Now I`ll check out the video.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:09:58 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

KH, just wanted to say (15.00 / 3)

congratulations on getting Rescued at Orange. That list is usually the first place I go after work to see what good stuff I've missed, and I'm sure plenty of others do, too. Sometimes people even add comments.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 05:17:57 AM UTC

Youffraita (14.00 / 4)

Thank you.
I saw that, plus RiaD promoted it in the Mothership Diary, & some asked to put an eKos tag on it.
I really have no idea what tags are for, so I told them I trust them to do so.
I hadn`t been able to comment or post there for almost five years, but I finally contacted Meteor Blades, who put me in touch with an IT there & we straightened it out.
So they were disadvantaged by my lack of presence there for all those years, hah!
I still read there daily throughout all that time, but it was frustrating, not being able to comment on good or bad ideas.
That`s the second time out of three or four that my diary has been rescued, so that`s nice.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:07:59 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Yeah, they don't usually rescue (13.33 / 3)

photo diaries, but I think some of the Rescue Rangers are doing so for exactly the same reason you are posting them: To give a concrete example of exactly what is being destroyed by BP's overweening arrogance & greed.

Glad you can post there again: you'll get a lot more eyes, once people remember you & click on any diary of yours. Membership now is well over 1/4 million...and they all have friends, lol.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:22:58 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Youffraita (15.00 / 4)

Believe me, I only want exposure of the marine life.
I most certainly don`t want any for myself.
I already have a notorious reputation, that up to this point has not proceeded me.
But I fear not.
Hah!
I always hide in plain sight.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:53:25 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Well, the point is: (13.33 / 3)

More people will click on your diaries & remember them IF they like you.

And your diaries deserve to be read by the widest possible audience.

NOT for you. For all the dead and dying creatures in the Gulf.

And now I really MUST go to bed.

G'night, KH.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 08:58:43 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Youffraita (15.00 / 4)

Thank you so much for your support of the gulf, & it`s inhabitants, human & animal.
Good night, you`ve been a great help.
Thank you.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 09:55:49 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Oh, forgot to mention: (15.00 / 3)

tags are simply to make searching the site easier. Someone who is searching for ecology stories would type in eKos. If you use that tag, it will (theoretically) show up in the search results.

I say "theoretically" because I find their search engine to be rather hit or miss. It might be my search word skills...but sometimes their engine is a Major Fail for me. Google, it ain't.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:34:29 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Youffraita (15.00 / 4)

Ok, I think I`m getting it, because you can`t post a diary there without at least one tag.
Now I see that some have been added.
If I`m correct, the next time I post a similar diary, I should add to the tags already in use?

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:55:50 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

yes! (15.00 / 3)

use whatever the orange people have put in...in every gulf diary you do there.

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett

by: RiaD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 18:41:16 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

Your diary tags there should (15.00 / 3)

always include eKos and teaching.

Those two tags will lead you to being included in two different searches.

Both are valuable: they will get you more eyes from two different directions.

And, what Ria said.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 09:14:32 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

PS: (15.00 / 3)

I don't know whether plf would agree with me, but as long as you're posting diaries about "Look at what we're destroying" I would add "teaching" to my tags, if I were you. That way, plf can add your diaries to his dKos University blog on Saturday mornings. It's worth a try, anyway, although you might need to add a bit more detail about how each creature lives & how they interact to make it a "teaching" diary. I'm not sure what plf's criteria are: but I'm pretty sure that with just a bit more text, you will meet or surpass them.

dKos University is another place I go to see what good stuff I've missed. ;-D

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:43:18 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Youffraita (15.00 / 4)

Who or what is plf?

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:57:19 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

LOL (14.33 / 3)

Username plf515 (I think I have that right). He's a long-time Kossack and a really good person, afaik. He does a Saturday morning round-up of diaries that might actually, y'know, teach somebody something. The diaries in his round-up include cooking diaries and history diaries and science diaries and...well, anything that is giving the community information they might not already know...but mostly, not political diaries, unless it's the politics of ancient Rome or Greece or the Founding Fathers of the U.S.

If you want to know more, go to Orange and just search "dKos University."

But I can assure you that plf is a good person.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 08:32:33 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Youffraita (15.00 / 4)

Ok I believe I`ve read some of his stuff a few years ago.
Thank you.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 08:44:36 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Oh, dear, I was (11.00 / 3)

in the kitchen when NPR news interrupted the jazz stream & didn't really hear this. But 20-something new deep-water wells have begun drilling in the North Sea since the Gulf Gusher began, most of them British. (That's what I think I heard, anyway.)

I really don't know how to navigate their site, and it was JUST on, so maybe someone here will find it tomorrow. I missed the important part: is Norway shutting them down? (And if not, why not?)

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:16:41 AM UTC

youffraita (13.50 / 4)

Yes I just got a quick blurb on one of my news feeds, but here is something else that`s quite disturbing.
http://www.reuters.com/article...

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 07:58:31 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Can't read that right now. (15.00 / 3)

I have to work tomorrow (read: go to bed now) and I'm depressed enough already about the Gulf.

Kiss that body of water good-bye, Jim: it's dead for generations.

Gha! I hope I'm wrong.

But I don't think I am.

D'ja hear about the oysters in NY harbor? Fake reefs were planted, and the oyster spawn, well, seeded there. And the water has actually been cleaned enough (since Nixon & his EPA) that, although they are not fit for human consumption (too many toxins), they are still growing and thriving.

But NY harbor never had a catastrophe of this magnitude.

Oh, it makes me so sick, KH. Talk about Paris Burning? I remember when Lake Erie was literally burning.

I remember when mountaintop removal mining was banned.

And I remember that all the really horrible things done to our nation were done by the GOP and their enablers (bankers) in the private sector.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 08:43:31 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Test comment (14.00 / 5)

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 01:09:58 AM UTC

YAY! (15.00 / 3)

it worked!!

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett

by: RiaD @ Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 01:45:11 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Riad (10.75 / 4)

YEP,
I try & learn a little more every day.
Thanks again.

by: KNUCKLEHEAD @ Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 04:04:21 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

may the bleeding stop (15.00 / 4)

and the suffocating, blinding,
unleashed phantom find its
poisonous source denied.
may the souls lost on Deepwater Horizon,
and the incomprehensible number
of marine and winged lives
tragically ended by human greed,
find peace.
may their callous murders
not have been in vain.
may our Sacred Mother's
wounds be healed,
and her compassion breathe
love, hope and regeneration...

to her Gulf
and into our hearts.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm

by: newpioneer @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 at 01:19:55 AM UTC

according to.... (9.00 / 1)

AmericanRiverCanyon BP claims well shut off during test....

but they will NOT leave it shut off!

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett

by: RiaD @ Fri Jul 16, 2010 at 01:17:26 AM UTC

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