#Oceanic Heritage

[mistwalker-official]

I threw another guitar playthrough vid up onto the YouTube channel. Check out “Mystery Veteran” from ‘Oceanic Heritage’. It’s got some of my favourite riffs I’ve ever written.

[stylized-corpse]

Haven't done a guitar playthrough in a while. Here's one for my song "Beaumont-Hamel" from the album Oceanic Heritage by @mistwalker-official.

[honestlyangrypeace]

Underwater Waterfall, Le Morne Brabant, Mauritius: This underwater waterfall in Mauritius is incredible. When viewed from above, a runoff of sand and silt deposits creates the impression of an ‘underwater waterfall’... Le Morne Brabant is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. There are many caves and overhangs on the steep slopes. It is largely surrounded by a lagoon and is a well known tourist attraction. The coast off Le Morne Brabant is often cited as the location of an underwater waterfall. Wikipedia

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

since theres a lot of discussions about shipwrecks and deep sea submersibles happening right now, im just gonna quickly recommend this video which details how caladan oceanic found the samuel b roberts.

the samuel b roberts was a destroyer escort sank during the battle off samar during ww2. the wreck was found last year and is 22,621 feet/6885 metres deep which is almost 10,000 feet or 3000 metres deeper than the titanic and is currently the deepest wreck ever found.

in the video, you see a deep sea submersible (which can go down to 36,000 feet/10,973 metres) that isnt a tin can finished up with duct tape, super glue and glittery gel pens. it is piloted by an expert and they swap out pilots every day to avoid exertion or fatigue, and they have a very complex sonar system for finding wrecks. the longest they can go down is 16 hours and they keep in contact with their ship above and have to get clearance just for half an hour more.

when they find the wreck, they look around it to ensure they can identify it and map it out as well as they can, and then head back up to shore. they then hold a funeral service for those who died and leave a wreath on the ocean surface above where the wreck lays.

while im somewhat sketched out by the founder victor vescovo, the company does important work in terms of furthering our understanding of the ocean and finding wrecks which are the gravesites of those who passed. and they are not disrespectful to those whose graves lay 22,000 feet/6700 metres down on the seabed.

and what i would like to point out is how the samuel b roberts is protected against unauthorised disturbance by the sunken military craft act. you would need a permit from the naval history and heritage command (and a submarine that can withstand all the pressure) to go see it.

which, as ive said many times in the last two days, is something that the titanic should also have protection against. there should be laws in place that do not allow people to treat a mass fucking gravesite as a tourist spot.

[fluffy-cloudz]

All I’m saying is that I need Azriel and Gwyn to make out while in a body of water at some point

[daily-public-domain]

Day 275: Large Stalked Sponge

link

–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever, no need to credit it!)–

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldDolphinDay:

Plate VIII from Giant Fishes, Whales, and Dolphins, field guide #SciArt from 1949.

A. Common Porpoise B. Commerson's Dolphin C. White-beaked Dolphin D. Common Dolphin

Biodiversity Heritage Library

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dharna Noor at The Guardian:

Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests.

Joe Biden’s presidency has increased the profile of the science-based federal agency but its future has been put in doubt if Trump wins a second term and at a time when climate impacts continue to worsen. The plan to “break up Noaa is laid out in the Project 2025 document written by more than 350 rightwingers and helmed by the Heritage Foundation. Called the Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, it is meant to guide the first 180 days of presidency for an incoming Republican president. The document bears the fingerprints of Trump allies, including Johnny McEntee, who was one of Trump’s closest aides and is a senior adviser to Project 2025. “The National Oceanographic [sic] and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” the proposal says.

That’s a sign that the far right has “no interest in climate truth”, said Chris Gloninger, who last year left his job as a meteorologist in Iowa after receiving death threats over his spotlighting of global warming. The guidebook chapter detailing the strategy, which was recently spotlighted by E&E News, describes Noaa as a “colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future US prosperity”. It was written by Thomas Gilman, a former Chrysler executive who during Trump’s presidency was chief financial officer for Noaa’s parent body, the commerce department. Gilman writes that one of Noaa’s six main offices, the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, should be “disbanded” because it issues “theoretical” science and is “the source of much of Noaa’s climate alarmism”. Though he admits it serves “important public safety and business functions as well as academic functions”, Gilman says data from the National Hurricane Center must be “presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate”.

[...] Noaa also houses the National Weather Service (NWS), which provides weather and climate forecasts and warnings. Gilman calls for the service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations”. He goes on to say that Americans are already reliant on private weather forecasters, specifically naming AccuWeather and citing a PR release issued by the company to claim that “studies have found that the forecasts and warnings provided by the private companies are more reliable” than the public sector’s. (The mention is noteworthy as Trump once tapped the former CEO of AccuWeather to lead Noaa, though his nomination was soon withdrawn.)

The claims come amid years of attempts from US conservatives to help private companies enter the forecasting arena – proposals that are “nonsense”, said Rosenberg. Right now, all people can access high-quality forecasts for free through the NWS. But if forecasts were conducted only by private companies that have a profit motive, crucial programming might no longer be available to those in whom business executives don’t see value, said Rosenberg. [...] Fully privatizing forecasting could also threaten the accuracy of forecasts, said Gloninger, who pointed to AccuWeather’s well-known 30- and 60-day forecasts as one example. Analysts have found that these forecasts are only right about half the time, since peer-reviewed research has found that there is an eight- to 10-day limit on the accuracy of forecasts.

The Trump Administration is delivering a big gift to climate crisis denialism as part of Project 2025 by proposing the dismantling and privatizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS) in his potential 2nd term.

This should frighten people to vote Democratic up and down the ballot if you want the NOAA and NWS to stay intact.

[vox-anglosphere]

St.Kilda

[noaasanctuaries]

The sanctuaries and monuments of the national marine sanctuary system run along the shorelines and include the waters of many Native and Tribal Nations. We work in partnership with these communities to protect resources, shape policy, conduct research, and provide educational programs.

At Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (pictured here), the Makah Tribe, Quileute Tribe, Hoh Tribe, and Quinault Indian Nation have a critical role in sanctuary management as active members of the Intergovernmental Policy Committee and the Sanctuary Advisory Council.

Join us in commemorating Native American Heritage Day, today, respecting and honoring the deep cultural ties of Indigenous people to the ocean.

[mistwalker-official]

Another year in the bag.

2024 was full of ups and downs, but in spite of the rocky road we still managed to do a bunch of cool stuff.

We had a lineup change after coming back from hiatus. Iris became our new live guitarist and has slipped into the role exceedingly well.

I released ‘Basement Dwellers’, a live rehearsal demo recorded off the floor at the Dank Basement (Aaron’s house in Glovertown) during our Atlantic Canada tour in 2023.

I also released the single “Graceless Ebb”, which directed people through the Bandcamp page to donate to various charities for relief from the still ongoing genocide in Gaza.

My ninth album ‘Oceanic Heritage’ from 2023 was released on cassette thanks to Jerome Arseno of Mean Street / Coastline Crew. My first proper cassette release!

We got ourselves a bespoke stage banner thanks to the incredibly talented and skilled Artemis Tratnik.

I was interviewed by Sewer Spewer for their special Patreon show Sewer Stewards, in which I got to talk about touring, being in different bands, and upcoming projects!

One of the worst moments of 2024 was getting our apartment broken into and having my guitar stolen, among other things including a bunch of band money, a laptop, and bullet belts. Luckily, however, at least one of those things was returned to me, as my beloved Sifrera eventually made its way back into my hands.

We got to play with and open for a bunch of cool bands like Desolus and Spiter.

In September of 2024 we toured the Maritimes alongside our eternal chovms Anti-Criss! It was so sick to return to the east coast this year and be belligerent with our Rimouski siblings.

Then in November of 2024 we toured Ontario alongside our old friends in Twin Banshee. This marked our first proper Ontario tour and we played a bunch of cities we’ve never had the chance to until now.

I want to thank everyone who has listened to or bought my music this year, everyone who came out to one of our shows to check us out live, and everyone who bought merch, talked to us, posted about us, and anything else that helps us out as a band.

Thanks most of all to my bandmates Erin and Iris for just kicking ass.

[acourtofthought]

"Below the Edge of Darkness" is a book about a marine biologist, about bioluminescence in the sea. It has tentacles on the cover.

"life and light in the sea" is not a nod to e/riel.

But of course some e/riels are convinced it has to do with Az based on the title alone and the use of "light" and darkness. Because one clearly thinks of Elain when they think of anglerfish. 🤦

If we're trying to spin the selection she had displayed, a book on flowers and women's roles in medieval society would lean Elain and a book on the ocean would lean Gwyn. Or even House of Many Waters at some point.

[its-jackiemcsoup]

First dump from Ireland: Galway🥹

[nickysfacts]

It’s amazing how many meanings one small shell can have!

🌊🐚

[tmcphotoblog]

Pocket watch found in the RMS Titanic

Pocket watch found in the RMS Titanic stopped showing a time of 2:28, 8 minutes after the sinking. According to Heritage Auctions, the watch had been recovered from a 34-year-old passenger named Sinai Kantor. Kantor was a Russian immigrant who managed to get his wife, Miriam, to a lifeboat before he died in icy waters after the ship hit an iceberg. Kantor's body was later pulled from the Atlantic Ocean. He was buried in New York.