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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Posted on: February 8, 2008 8:17 AM, by Kevin Zelnio
I'm not even going to say anything. I want your jaw to drop just like mine did. Major hat tip to the guys at the Neutral Dive Gear: SCUBA Diving Blog. Go check them out!
And now for a little narcissism. My 15 seconds of fame on the National Geographic Channel's series Naked Science: The Deep. This episode aired last Spring. Don't blink! You might miss me!
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Comments
Well, you got my jaw to drop. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Jim Lemire | February 8, 2008 8:58 AM
Kevin, if this whole science thing doesn't work out for you, clearly you have the skills to be a product model on 'The Price Is Right'!
Posted by: CK | February 8, 2008 12:59 PM
Wow! I miss living in the Pacific Northwest sometimes. For example, now would be one of those times. Nice appearance on Nat Geo! I did not know that about tube worms - so they're older than bristlecone pines then?
Posted by: Karen James | February 8, 2008 1:00 PM
Karen, models seem to suggest tubeworms can live up to 300-500 years maybe. Bristlecone pines live for 3,000-5,000 years. So no.
Posted by: kevin z | February 8, 2008 1:15 PM
So, why didn't they let you play guitar and sing on the show? (very cool, btw)
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | February 8, 2008 6:26 PM
Wow, you move so fast!
Posted by: trog69 | February 8, 2008 7:17 PM
Nice sequence, Kevin! That's very cool.
About the Orca... a buddy says this breaching style literally is an attack, that is, the same method an Orca will use to kill a seal
Posted by: Peter | February 8, 2008 7:24 PM
Thanks guys! I really move that fast in real life too. I just wish I could write my dissertation that fast.
Peter, now that you mention it, I remember hearing the venerable David Attenborough mention that in Blue Planet.
Posted by: kevin z | February 8, 2008 8:27 PM
Anybody know where the first orca vid came from? Sounds like Japanese... Hmmmmm.... Apparantly Japanese aren't too popular with the whale population.
Posted by: Y | February 9, 2008 1:49 PM
Y, lol, but I think it was english and the pacific northwest.
Posted by: kevin z | February 9, 2008 5:19 PM
Sorry guys . . . I was told by a colleague who studies marine mammals that the Orca video is a fake. I then found this:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=PowerAid+orca+video&hl=en&sitesearch=
Make sure to check the comments following this video.
Posted by: JG | February 10, 2008 4:28 PM
looks like that orca clip is a fake...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwxAJYKFbE
Posted by: Jim Lemire | February 10, 2008 8:10 PM
Note that the confusion over their age is from the "longest living animal" claim. Bristlecones are known as the longest living plants.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | February 11, 2008 2:08 AM
Johnnie, even that claim mst be qualified. Tubeworms are the longest lived non-colonial/clonal animal. Some reefs can be thousands of years old and the same genetic "individual".
Posted by: kevin z | February 11, 2008 8:05 AM
Damn you JG and Jim, I wanted to believe. But thanks for elucidating the truth for us. Here at DSN we strive for accuracy. I'll put in a note in the post. But this one of a killer whale taking half a salmon from a fisherman is real. I swear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ1GAZZk6E
Posted by: kevin z | February 11, 2008 8:07 AM