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	<title>BB-films.com, keeping one eye on the Blue &#187; In the news</title>
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	<description>Steve Hurford: keeping one eye on the Blue from Belgrade, Serbia</description>
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		<title>The Coral Triangle &amp; sea nomads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing times for the world&#8217;s center of marine biodiversity and the communities who depend on and harvest the sea&#8217;s resources.
&#8220;Photojournalist James Morgan is working with WWF, and spent eight months getting to know the Bajau Laut community &#8211; who for centuries have lived at sea, but are now being encouraged to settle on land and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great White sharks in the Mediterranean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a little-known fact that Great White sharks can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, and perhaps even less-well known is that they arrived there some 450,000 years ago from Australia, according to new genetic studies.
According to a BBC article published today:
&#8220;Researchers writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B believe the arrival may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii bans shark fin soup &#8211; thank you Governor Linda Lingle</title>
		<link>http://www.bb-films.com/hawaii-bans-shark-fin-soup-thank-you-governor-linda-lingle</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bb-films.com/?p=918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time a glimmer of hope appears as some honorable, committed individuals stand up for what is right, demand a change to human behaviour that, although it may be &#8216;traditional&#8217;, is just downright barbaric and damaging to the environment we live in &#8211; thank you Governer Linda Lingle of Hawaii!
Governor of Hawaii, Linda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saltwater Crocodiles surf Ocean Currents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bb-films.com/?p=812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of a Great White, or possibly an Oceanic White-tip (on a bad day), nothing terrifies me more than the prospect of meeting a 20ft (6m) Saltwater &#8216;Estuarine&#8217; Crocodile out in the open Ocean. And apparently that&#8217;s not as unlikely as I would have hoped for!
Despite being poor swimmers, researchers have discovered that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Sea Cucumber: &#8220;jettisons internal organs from anus&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable &#8211; nature&#8217;s defense strategies never cease to amaze&#8230;
Photo by INDEX-SATAL/NOAA
&#8220;A free-swimming sea cucumber  moves through the freezing waters of a 10,515-foot (3,205-meter) abyss.
The 1,250 known species of sea cucumbers—named for their distinctive shapes—live on or near deep ocean floors or dwell in the shallows. (Watch a video of a &#8220;hairy&#8221; sea cucumber.)
When threatened, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia mimic octopus imitates toxic flatfish for defense</title>
		<link>http://www.bb-films.com/indonesia-mimic-octopus-imitates-toxic-fish-for-defense</link>
		<comments>http://www.bb-films.com/indonesia-mimic-octopus-imitates-toxic-fish-for-defense#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bb-films.com/?p=755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How about this for an impersonation&#8230; Watch video of the Indonesian Mimic Octopus impersonating a toxic flatfish &#8211; sometimes the best form of defense really is to attack!
The Indonesian mimic octopus has the extraordinary ability to pass itself off as many of the toxic fishes or sea snakes that share its habitat.
Instead of blending into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill effects</title>
		<link>http://www.bb-films.com/bp-deepwater-horizon-gulf-oil-spill-effects</link>
		<comments>http://www.bb-films.com/bp-deepwater-horizon-gulf-oil-spill-effects#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bb-films.com/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the media hype surrounding the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill has largely died down, we think it would be of interest to track news &#038; findings about the effects of this environmental disaster that might not make it into mainstream consciousness.
The lasting impression we had from the last batch of news released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to the Abyss</title>
		<link>http://www.bb-films.com/returning-to-the-abyss</link>
		<comments>http://www.bb-films.com/returning-to-the-abyss#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ocean &#8216;X Factor&#8217; to reach deepest point will net £6m.
Fifty years ago today two men sealed themselves inside a tiny steel sphere and were lowered over the side of a ship in the Western Pacific. For the next four hours they dropped steadily down through the ocean depths. A porthole cracked, shaking the craft, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there still time to save the seas?</title>
		<link>http://www.bb-films.com/is-there-stilll-time-to-save-the-seas</link>
		<comments>http://www.bb-films.com/is-there-stilll-time-to-save-the-seas#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bb-films.com/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ocean is acidifying and coral reefs are dying. And it will only get worse until we rein in our emissions.
[BB-films note: from time to time I think it's worth stepping back and thinking about how we are amongst the last generation of divers that are going to be able to enjoy the World's oceans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you President Toribiong (Palau)</title>
		<link>http://www.bb-films.com/thank-you-president-toribiong-palau</link>
		<comments>http://www.bb-films.com/thank-you-president-toribiong-palau#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Johnson Toribiong of the tiny Pacific replublic of Palau is to create the world&#8217;s first &#8220;shark sanctuary&#8221;, banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters.
With half of the world&#8217;s oceanic sharks at risk of extinction, conservationists regard the move as &#8220;game-changing&#8221;.
It will protect about 600,000 sq km (230,000 sq miles) of ocean, an area [...]]]></description>
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