"Although pirates last year made many more attempts to board ships in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia, the number of successful seizures was about the same as in 2008, according to the U.S.-organized multinational maritime force here."
3/10/2010, The Los Angeles Times
"Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Cove.'"
3/10/2010, Associated Press
"He was one of the first successful, unmanned, free-swimming ocean robots. But now, the 15-year-old autonomous benthic explorer – beloved ABE to those that designed, built and operated him at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – is gone, lost off the coast of Chile in the early hours of last Friday."
3/10/2010, The Boston Globe
"A meeting of International Whaling Commission (IWC) nations in the United States last weekend had tried but failed to reach a compromise. Reports said under consideration was an idea to allow Japan, Norway and Iceland to openly hunt whales despite a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling, but aim to reduce the total catch over the next 10 years."
3/10/2010, 3news
"SeaWorld says it is reconsidering whether to continue using in performances the six-tonne killer whale that drowned its trainer last month."
3/10/2010, The Sydney Morning Herald

 

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