Seven Seas Bulletin One : Baby Orca, Reef Safe Sunscreen, Overfishing, Amelia Earhart

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In this edition of Seven Seas Bulletin from @PortSundries asks, "Did giant coconut crabs eat Amelia Earhart!?" Did you know that newborn baby orca T046B3A's great-grandmother almost spent her life in a SeaWorld tank? Do you know what is overfishing is? And we offer some reef safe sunscreen advice.

Amelia Earhart in front of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra. Gelatin silver print, 1937. Wikimedia Commons

Did Giant Crabs Eat Amelia Earhart?

On July 2, 1937, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while nearing their destination of Howland Island. Some theorize that they ended up on the coral atoll Nikumaroro. If the plane crashed or landed on an island in this region, coconut crabs (Birgus latro) may have eaten Earhart's and Noonan's remains. These giant "robber" crabs can grow to over 3 feet, weigh 9 pounds, and have can be found across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. From the East Coast of Africa in Zanzibar to French Polynesia.

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Giant coconut crab (Birgus latro). 2019. Wikimedia Commons.


Orca. DeanMoth Pixabay

The Orca that almost wasn't.

On March 20, 2025, the Pacific Whale Watch Association spotted a new baby orca in the T46B pod in the Juan de Fuca Strait of the Salish Sea. Designated T046B3A, this new born cetacean is the great-grand-calf of T046 (Wake), one of the last captured orcas in the United States. In 1976, SeaWorld's Don Goldsberry was seen using planes, power boats, and seal bombs to force six orcas into Puget Sound. Soon after Sea World lost it's permit to capture orcas in Washington state waters and T046 would find their way back into the wild.


Fishing trawler overfishing cod. 2016. Wikimedia Commons.

What is Overfishing? What does this term mean?

Overfishing occurs when fish are caught faster than they can reproduce, leading to population declines and ecosystem disruption. This unsustainable practice diminishes biodiversity, destabilizes food webs, harms coastal economies, and threatens global food security.

One-third of the global fish stocks are currently overfished.

At this rate many of the world's stocks may be on the brink of collapse if action is not taken.


Clown fish in coral reef. Pexels Pixabay.

Help keep the ocean and yourself healthy with reef safe sunscreens.

Avoid sunscreens that contain :

  • Oxybenzone
  • Benzophenone-1
  • Benzophenone-8
  • OD-PABA
  • 4-Methylbenzylidene
    camphor
  • 3-Benzylidene camphor
  • nano-Titanium dioxide
  • nano-Zinc oxide
  • Octinoxate
  • Octocrylene

Consider staying out of the direct sun between 10am and 2pm, wear a hat, use a sun umbrella, and wear UV protecting clothing..


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We will have our zine version of this edition out later this week. The zine version is paper edition volunteers send and hand out to people. The edition above has a little bit more, plus sources and more visuals. Thank you reading.

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My online persona, is Bluefin.
And my company's name is also in part, Bluefin...
All named for a memorable childhood, growing up near a very big fishing port on the East Coast, of US, in New England. Provincetown, while a big tourist town today, is, and was a huge part of the New England fishing community. As a kid, I can remember seeing the old fishermen, and they unloaded their catch. And every once in a while, they would hoist on the town dock a Bluefin tuna, for all to see, and for the processors to purchase. If the Tuna was over a thousand pounds, it was called a Grander for a Grand meaning a "thousand." Back then, early 1970's, it might happen once a week? Certainly the 600, 700, even 800 pound Bluefin was common enough

These days, MAYBE once a season you might see or hear about a GRANDER
Since 1970, Western Bluefin Tuna stocks have dropped over 90%!!! They simply have been VASTLY overfished. And, we now know, one of their hatcheries, is the Gulf of Mexico. Sadly, oil spills, and shipping has greatly hurt that hatchery.

It is with Deep Respect, and honor, I call myself, Bluefin

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