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Looking for an excuse to celebrate the oceans this winter? Look no further. On March 3, we are holding our inaugural SeaBlue benefit event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and you are invited! SeaBlue will feature a musical performance by The Honey Brothers with Oceana Ambassador Adrian Grenier, and Alexandra Cousteau and World Champion Freediver Martin Stepanek will also be in attendance. The benefit, co-chaired by philanthropic leaders Senta Monet Mackel and Louise Storelli Fogarty, will be hosted at the award-winning W Fort Lauderdale. Guests will be treated to an evening of hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and dancing in an underwater world created by Chris Cruz of Emagination. SeaBlue is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors and underwriters, including W Fort Lauderdale, Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, LiveESP.com, Wells Fargo, Bacardi U.S.A. and Emagination. You can purchase tickets at www.seablueevent.org, and please spread the word! When you think of ocean animals, snakes are not usually the first thing to come to mind, but they live as comfortably underwater as they do on the ground. Today’s Marine Monday features one of these swimming snakes, the olive sea snake. Olive sea snakes live in corals in the waters above Australia. Divers should be cautious around these olive-brown snakes, as they will swim right up to anything that catches their curiosity, and they will bite if they feel threatened. An olive sea snake bite is venomous and can be fatal. But don't worry, beachgoers have little to fear from this snake. Olive sea snakes live and hunt within their own small territories in coral reefs and rarely enter open water. One cool thing about olive sea snakes is that they have a nine-month gestation period and give birth to live young, just like us! But their babies come in litters of five and are the size of a human finger, plus they grow up to be venomous sea snakes, so the similarities end there. Want to learn more about cool marine creatures? Check out Oceana’s marine encyclopedia. Colorado human-trafficking case nets 8-year jail termDenver PostAuthorities on Tuesday completed the first successful prosecution under Colorado's anti-human-trafficking law, five years after it went into effect. Dallas Colby Cardenas, 19, was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday after he ...D Posted on 24/10/11A textile cooperative started for women rescued from the sex trade is thriving, lifting a small Vietnamese village near the border with China. Posted on 24/10/11RedCross: MT @leah_odeneal Today @RedCross fed my friend as she cleaned her family home damaged by tornado. Never more proud to be part of this org Posted 1 day, 16 hours agoRedCross: RT @dcschrader Watching more severe #ALWx and tracking @redcross mental health workers (@ American Red Cross) http://t.co/pFw4NTMm Posted 1 day, 19 hours ago |
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