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Environment
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Snake Robots Deployed In Japanese Rescue Missions
15 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rescue robots have been deployed in the parts of of Japan worst affected by the massive earthquake and tsunamis that struck Friday. Robiticist Satoshi Tadoko is apparently leading a team from Tohoku Universityen route to Sendai with ‘a snakelike robot that can wriggle into debris to hunt for people.’
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Koeberg Nuclear Power Station Shuts Down, Routine Maintenance
15 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Take a deep breath and don’t panic. It’s nothing to be alarmed about and this is why we have eased it in on this beautiful Tuesday afternoon in Cape Town. Unit two actually shut down yesterday already and we thought we’d now explain why you might see it puffing the odd bit of steam from time to time.
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The Most Insane Japan Tsunami Video Footage
12 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
This is it – the footage from SKYNEWS that everyone is talking about – showing the most insane visuals of the tragic March 2011 earthquake in Japan. Starting with a solid wall of water out in the ocean, crashing into land and destroying everything in its path; visuals include entire villages getting flattened, aerial views […]
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South Africa Launches Pirate Satellite Tracking Service
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Initially instituted as a service to monitor the safety of our local and surrounding shorelines during the World Cup last year, the Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system is a welcomed spin-off from a successful local concept for maritime protection. It will also help to track shipwrecks and oceanic pollution.
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Weather Girl With Today’s Weather Report [Video]
10 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Just in case you missed today’s weather report with Kim, here is a video from the streaming video which broadcasts every Tuesday and Thursday LIVE at 08h30. Soon this will be daily – but we’re just waiting for our new 2oceansvibe TV studios to get setup. Won’t be long! In the meantime, follow the link […]
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Today’s Great Idea: Solar Highways [VIDEO]
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Have you ever walked on a road with your bare feet in summertime, and noticed how much heat the tar holds? That heat is an expression of solar energy, received from the sun, held in the conducive asphalt, and radiated back on to your toes. We’re wasting that energy, but hopefully for not much longer.
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The “Super Moon” – Let’s Have That Chat
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everybody loves a little bit of sensationalism, especially when the majority of news starts becoming rather bland and repetitive. Take for example the way The Sun headlined this piece: “Disaster as moon closes in” – awesome vibe. Fact is though, that no disaster should technically happen and surfers should actually be getting amped for a mission, bru.
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‘Nitrogen Funerals:’ The Eco-Friendly Way To Deal With Death
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Wow. Okay. So a Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, using sound waves to shatter the ice before drawing all the moisture out of the remains with a vacuum. Because the Swedish word for ‘eco-friendly’ also means ‘traumatic’ and ‘awesome.’
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Camel Milk: In Fridges Soon
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right, camel milk demand is on the up and the word is getting out. Demand from diabetic patients, parents of autistic children and sufferers of Crohn’s disease has resulted in them becoming their own powerful lobbyists. Internationally that is. So when will camel milk sail into the mainstream market here at home I wonder?
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Lion Cited For Voter Registration Intimidation Over The Weekend
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That is correct. A real lion has been fingered (no) as reason why potential voters from the Vhembe region in Limpopo were not able to register to vote this past weekend for the upcoming local government elections. I’m thinking The Ghost and the Darkness and humming the chorus to Bon Jovi – Wild In The Streets.
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Fish Farming Is Big Business
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Perlemoen, in particular. I know a few chaps who used pull out the odd perly when we were younger. It was childish and naive at the time I thought, although I too engaged in other unrelated mischief of my own. Anyway, aquaculture has always fascinated me and the recession did it no favours. This however, might be the new oil.
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The Sweetest Thing You’ll See All Day
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Every once in a while I see something that stirs this old heart of mine, and this counts as one of those. Estela, a little orphan spider monkey in Australia has found comfort in a stuffed animal after her real mom abandoned her. More “awwww!!!” pics inside.
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Shell Makes A Promise It Can’t Keep
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Shell claims its SA exploration for shale gas in the Karoo will use safe techniques not known to harm the environment and “vows” not to pollute Karoo water. But since when is hydraulic fracturing a safe technique?
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Chimpanzee Meat Latest Addition To Black Market
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a fact about that hamburger patty on your Maccy D’s burger: it does not come from a singular cow named Bessie. Instead, the likelihood of her meat, along with 20 other of her friends all ground up together and pressed into a patty is pretty strong. There’s also the possibility that the butcher might have used chimp meat.
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Anonymous’ Hack Scandal Forces Head of HBGary’s Resignation
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anonymous, the online sort-of-anarchic sort-of-activist group, forced Aaron Barr, head of HBGary Federal, the massive American tech security company, to resign. Which is sort of a huge deal in the way that Charlie Sheen isn’t. Even though I love everything that Charlie Sheen touches.
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Heidi The Oscar Predicting Opossum
01 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember Paul? The octopus who predicted the soccer World Cup results. Well, meet Heidi, the cross-eyed opossum who predicted winners for this years Oscars. She came up one pick sort of perfectly predicting the top Oscar awards. She’s a little bit creepy, but cute.
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Port Elizabeth Pool Water Selling On The Black Market
28 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s no secret that the Eastern Cape is suffering from one of the most devastating droughts in recent times. Jacki Bilsbury from the Walmer area had a laugh when she read a local newspaper article about pool water theft. She’s not laughing now.
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Spain Counters Rising Oil Prices, Lowers Speed Limit
28 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The turmoil in the Middle East has done damage to the fragile oil price, and last week saw a more than 10 percent increase in the price per barrel. As a result we have seen petrol prices increase this month, and March will be no different. The Spanish are being productive about things though, we could learn from them.
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Webcam Weather Girl Debuts On 2ov Radio [Video]
24 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
In another South African first, 2oceansvibe Radio today presented its inaugural LIVE weather report via webcam, courtesy of the beautiful bikini-clad weather girl, Kim! The weather forecast will be broadcast live-streaming on webcam every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 08h30. If you missed Kim’s debut then don’t panic, we got you a copy. Follow the […]
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Aroused Elephant Flips Car In Pilanesberg Game Reserve [UPDATED]
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
You’re going to want to have a little look at this. Remember we talked about John Somers’ passionate encounter with Amarula the elephant yesterday? Well, a little earlier I received an email purportedly containing some shots of Amarula, doing his thing as you might say, to John’s new car.
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“You’ll Throw Away Your Gumboots And Relax” – Trevor Manuel
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This was one of the remarks made by Trevor when he addressed a press briefing relating to the acid mine water drainage situation around jozi. We should take cognisance as it comes from the man who spent many years in charge of our country’s finances and who is also arguably the most trustworthy politician around. If that exists.
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Child Trafficking In Haiti – Children Sold For As Little As R8,80
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The earthquake in Haiti last year caused massive destruction, but even more chaos looms in the aftermath. Traffickers are taking advantage of the situation by kidnapping, buying or stealing children. Some are being auctioned off to well-meaning yet ignorant western families while others are being forced into prostitution.
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Aroused Elephant Flips Car In Pilanesberg Game Reserve
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This past Thursday visitors to the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, which is located in the North West province near Rustenburg, were treated to a rather unpleasant experience. The new car that they were travelling in appears to have become the victim of a case of mistaken identity for a large and aroused bull elephant.
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Braaied Himalayan Tahr Steaks, Anyone?
21 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may be aware that there have been Himalayan Tahr’s living on the slopes our beloved Table Mountain for many years. The population has dwindled in recent times, and it was decided to remove all of the exotic creatures for good. However, a have few managed to evade the sniper’s barrel. Until now.
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Cyanide Fishing – Because Who Needs Bait
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Our friends from the eastern side of the world have long been known to be rather enterprising with the way that they decimate the ocean to sustain their fish needs. A photographer has been able to reveal their latest shocking technique: cyanide poisoning free-divers.
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Woman Arrested For Eating Out Of Tesco Bin
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eating out of dust bins has been all the rage here in South Africa for quite a while now and our rubbish is sorted by bergies long before it even reaches the recycling area back at the depot. Now, a certain Sasha Hall has been arrested in the UK for “theft by finding.”
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Windscreen Wiper Water Keeps 84 Year Old Alive In Desert
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An old man has virtually done the impossible and survived a five day ordeal in the Arizona Desert near a little spot they call Cave Creek, which is rather ironic. Hank Morello managed to do this by eating his left-over pasta and drinking his windscreen wiper water. Did I mention he also has mild dementia and diabetes?
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“They Never Even Offered Me One [Joint]” – Chilean Miner
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Weed, porn and political activism are just a few of the rumblings materialising from the infamous Chilean mining accident. Information sharing was tightly controlled by Chilean authorities for the duration of the saga, but New York Times journalist Jonathan Franklin was one of the privileged few considered to be on a need to know basis. He’s written a book on the matter.
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Aussies Now On The Lookout For Cassowaries
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Just when our Australian friends thought that it was safe enough to come out and begin picking up their lives again, another potential deadly threat is poised to strike. This time it’s an aggressive avian, the Cassowary, which may take to wandering urban streets after being displaced by floodwaters.
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It’s Smarter Than The Average Bear
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hoo ha. I try and avoid playing the ‘hey look something funny happened on the internet’ game with you guys too often, but it’s Monday and this bear unlocked some dude’s car door and “drank 4 beers, ate a bottle of mallox, and crapped all over the place.” That’s special.
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