So I just want to zip through a few more photos because they're just wonderful. This is the Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm, which is 88 turbines off the coast of Norfolk, England.
So of course there's designers, 20th century designers that have had a big influence on me. Whether it's Shoal Bass or Charles Eames or George Nelson. And I'm also a big admirer of people who have built companies who have built businesses out of processes that they've discovered and that they've kind of owned through design.
a bit of a support network for them so it's it's it is incredible just how much of an impact you can make this song is called muscle shoals it's off my new album and it's literally about the power of music and how music connects and for me the story of this song was about thinking about my heroes thinking about
and they swim toward you. They envelop you in their shoals and schools and pods. And they will stay there for hours.
And not only was I fortunate enough to be able photograph it, but this is the only representative of this species that has ever been collected. This was on a NOAA research trip to French Frigate Shoals . It was hauled up in a baited lobster trap from about 800 feet down and collected.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. But they let out these bubbles at night time to kind of coordinate their shoaling , so they know where they are in the shoal .
Her previous books include "Spirals in Time," "The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells," and "Poseidon's Steed the Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality." Her new book, "Eye of the Shoal " is an attempt to unhitch fish from their reputation as slimy, simple-minded creatures, and reveal their mesmerizing and complex lives.
So here we go. So, yeah, "Eye of the Shoal -- the Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Oceans, and Everything." The idea behind the book really is to bring to life this group of animals that I think kind of get a bit of a raw deal.
Then I'm going to zoom and show you the Cortes and Tanner Banks. These are really strange underwater features. They're essentially sunken Channel Islands. They're not little sea mounts. They're really big. If you were to measure Cortes from here to here the shoal stretch it's about 15 miles long and the waters off of Cortes drop off to 1,000 fathoms or 6,000 feet. What that translates into for a surfer is a spot that's capable of taking wave energy and focusing it almost like a lens -- like sunlight through a magnifying glass
As of 2024, thirty-one Alaska Native villages are in imminent danger of erosion, and at least a dozen of those villages have already chosen to relocate altogether. In what’s now Washington State, the Quinault Tribe and the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe are working to relocate for the same reason. And that’s just to name a few.
Suicide is said to leave survivors, the word used to refer to those of us left in devastated limbo. I am also possessed by the hope that others who are suicidal can be helped past the shoals of this devastating disease
And to get it with all of its star-shaped projectiles extended like this took a lot of patience. I also worked on NOAA research vessels, off the coast of French Frigate Shoals , which is one of the islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. There was a NOAA vessel that went out to that area specifically looking at marine invertebrates, and also in the Central Pacific around Palmyra, Kingman, and Jarvis.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. But it was collected from about 800 feet down on the NOAA vessel around French Frigate Shoals .
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. And this is a beautiful marbled shrimp, from around French Frigate Shoals .
crazy because who would have thought that this is this ingredient is is so I know sought after okay I I have a candidate I have a solid candidate for that I would tell you Patchouli opportunity why because Patchouli is known forever it was used in Chinese medicine it was used by the Indians but always in the form of leaves they would perfume their Shoals and Export it to England and all of that when all of a sudden the Patchouli smell became popular in London and and some perfumers said well why don't we try to distill the Patchouli leaves it