Arts & Entertainment Taylor Swift Inadvertently Sets Off Frenzy for Monterey Bay Aquarium T-Shirts Taylor Swift donned a vintage Monterey Bay Aquarium t-shirt in her recent theatrical release. The aquarium is now offering that retro t-shirt again, or rather, 16 different versions of the shirt, plus coffee mugs, magnets, and tote bags.
SF News Nine-Year-Old Girl Attacked and Bitten by Sea Lion at Monterey Peninsula Beach A sea lion attacked a nine-year-old girl who was taking a surf lesson at Monterey County’s Asilomar State Beach, though the young surfer is doing just fine, except for a few sea lion-bite puncture wounds.
SF News Monterey Teens Fight For The Environment, Media Frames Them As Villains In 2023, teen-led Protect Monterey Bay convinced the city to restrict cruise ship landings to curb pollution. Although ships may anchor, companies refused dock staffing, halting tourism. Merchants decried lost revenue while media blamed the teens, ignoring industry pollution.
SF News Great White Shark That Attacked Monterey Bay Swimmer Likely Not to Be Found This week, 62-year-old Steve Bruemmer miraculously survived a shark attack that injured his leg, stomach, and arm. And as astounding? Those wounds were all caused by a single bite... from a great white shark that could have been quite large.
SF News New Breed of Jellyfish With Nearly 40 Tentacles Discovered in the Depths of Monterey Bay Meet Atolla reynoldsi, a new species of jellyfish just discovered by Monterey Bay Aquarium Researchers, who has 26-39 tentacles, and spends its life 10,000 feet below water.
SF News Video: Check Out These 80-Foot Blue Whales Swimming in the Monterey Bay The largest animals on the planet have been popping up visibly in Monterey Bay this week, as the crustaceans are making for good eatin’, and whale watching season is hitting its peak.
Arts & Entertainment Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Came to NorCal to Go Crabbing Last Weekend It must have been Gavin Rossdale's weekend with the kids, and Gwen Stefani and her new fiancé Blake Shelton were up in Monterey over the weekend where they went out fishing and crabbing with a local guide.
Arts & Entertainment Monterey Whale Watching Captain Sees First-Ever Triple Breach of Humpbacks Three humpback whales put on a tandem show in Monterey Bay on Sunday, performing an extremely rare triple breach that delighted whale-watchers out for a tour.
Arts & Entertainment Humpback Whales — and Lots of Calves — Seen Feeding in Monterey Bay It's time for the southward migration of humpback whales down the Pacific coast, and these huge marine mammals need to feed as much as possible as they swim to pack on blubber before reaching warmer waters in Mexico with little to eat for months.
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Publishes Big Tease Of a Treasure Hunt Story A third-generation fisherman working the Northern California coast made a discovery five years ago via a GoPro camera he attached to a trawling net: a rectangular bar that looked like a gold ingot.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple Whales Were Breaching Wildly In Monterey Bay Right After Tuesday Earthquake Moments after the Tuesday afternoon 4.7M earthquake near Hollister, at least seven humpback whales were spotted simultaneously breaching, six of them in pairs, off the Monterey coast. Coincidence?
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch a Menagerie of Creatures Feasting on a Whale Carcass Near Monterey Bay While exploring Davidson Seamount, an undersea mountain off the Central California coast, researchers with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary came upon an active feeding frenzy.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Playful Pod of Risso's Dolphins Breach In Monterey Bay It's been a short workweek but it's felt like a long one for a number of reasons — gun debates, a deadly but slow-moving hurricane, a deadly boat fire, a dissatisfying verdict, Sharpie-gate. So please enjoy this little video break.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Albino Baby Dolphin Spotted In Monterey Bay A rare albino dolphin calf, specifically a Risso's dolphin, was just spotted last week in Monterey Bay among a pod of Risso's dolphins. The sighting was captured on video on June 7 by
SF News Video: Shark Attacks Kayaker In Monterey Bay Kayaker Brian Correiar had a terrifying brush with a great white shark recently when the shark slammed into his kayak and sent him flying into the water in Monterey Bay. This all happened
Arts & Entertainment Killer Whales Continue Putting On Show In Monterey Bay With Multiple Killings A pod of at least nine killer whales, with some other individuals joining in, have had a busy week of feeding in Monterey Bay, all as tourists excitedly watched. On Monday we saw
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Pod Of Killer Whales Feasting In Monterey Bay A group of killer whale mothers and calves were seen feasting over the course of four days last week and over the weekend on the carcasses of two dead gray whales just off
SF News Whale With Head Entangled In Metal Frame Headed To Big Sur, Volunteers Sought This is no ordinary whale watch in the Monterey area. Instead, it's what could be a life or death rescue mission. A gray whale last sighted off Piedras Blancas on Wednesday and expected
SF News Video: Killer Whales, True To Their Name, Devour Shark In Monterey Bay Waters A whale of a tale this morning from KTVU who feasted on some footage from Monterey Bay of a pod of killer whales feasting on a Sevengill shark: The video comes from Slater
Arts & Entertainment Video: Gangs Of Killer Whales Are Hunting Gray Whales In Monterey Bay "It's the biggest battle in nature, right here in your own backyard," says marine biologist Nancy Black speaking with the Monterey Herald, and she's talking about orca killer whales hunting for gray whale
SF News Kayakers Almost Crushed By Breaching Whale Think Whale Saved Their Lives It turns out that one of the people in that kayak from the crazy video of the breaching humpback whale in Monterey Bay last week is a British documentary filmmaker named Tom Mustill
Arts & Entertainment Now Would Be A Great Time To Spot Some Whales When was the last time you spotted a blue whale? Never, probably. Whale watching seems like the sort of expensive pastime reserved for people who have entire rooms filled with back issues of
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium What with springtime just around the corner, please check out photographer David C. Hill's glorious new clip showcasing his visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Maybe you too will want to make a
misc Killer Whales Hungry for Salmon Does anyone else cry at the end of the movie when Jesse bids farewell to Willy? Gets us every time. Every time!
SF News Man Missing at Sea Gray, who has over ten years' experience sailing, set off on Sunday to scatter the ashes of his mother. When he didn't return, the Coast Guard started a search from Oregon to Monterey
