{"id":637,"date":"2017-11-15T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/ocean-hazards-afternoon-after-day-of\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:37:06","slug":"ocean-hazards-afternoon-after-day-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/ocean-hazards-afternoon-after-day-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean hazards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This afternoon, after a day of unfavorable sea conditions, we went to the sea. First we encountered a group of bottlenose dolphins, a little spread out and, a little later, a group of Risso&#8217;s dolphins, very sociable and active on the surface and&#8230; full of juveniles!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp; &nbsp; During our trip we collected a large fishing net called &#8220;ghost net&#8221;. It&#8217;s always important to note that objects such as this, or even various types of plastic (bags, straws, bottles, balloons), glass or metals, collected during several of our trips, are a major threat in biodiversity and on our oceans.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Every year, 640,000 tonnes of fishing nets are discarded or lost in the sea, with devastating impacts to marine life, as they can last 600 years in the ocean. It&#8217;s estimated that these &#8220;ghost nets&#8221; capture and kill 136,000 seals, sea lions, turtles and large whales every year. It is also estimated that about 8 million garbage items are dumped into the oceans and seas every day and more than 13,000 plastic objects are in every square kilometer of ocean.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Nowadays these estimates are alarming and it&#8217;s essential to take care of our oceans, which harbor an enormous diversity of species, but also of our the planet Earth.&nbsp;We can help, by recycling and reducing the use of plastic products, for example.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Designsemnome28129.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Designsemnome28129.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>Risso&#8217;s dolphin<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Designsemnome.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Designsemnome.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Playful dolphins<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Designsemnome28229.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Designsemnome28229.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AndreiaVieira281229.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AndreiaVieira281229.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>&#8220;Ghost net&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This afternoon, after a day of unfavorable sea conditions, we went to the sea. 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