Oh God! Look what we have done now!!

I think you posh yachties and rich boat owners are an absolute disgrace. Fortunately this is limited to those who anchor in Studland Bay.

Why would anyone want to anchor where there are 170 other boats anyway?

The Mail at its finest:D
 
MoodySabre said:
I think you posh yachties and rich boat owners are an absolute disgrace. Fortunately this is limited to those who anchor in Studland Bay.

Why would anyone want to anchor where there are 170 other boats anyway?

The Mail at its finest:D
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Given that it is becoming such an issue, why do people go there?
 
Blimey, looks to me like the weather had a serious affect on the number of people diving over the last few years. Perhaps we ought to start a YBW dive club with the explicit intention of only diving Studland and reporting every seahorse? Could be a dramatic rise in "population" if we did.
 
I am thinking of getting vinyl seahorse stickers to put on the bow, then getting big red crosses to put over them for those that go to Studland!! It is times like this I wish I was clever at Photoshop, but I am sure someone will be along soon who is!!

While I am thinking of that, I am just off to gather some carrier bags from the shed to chuck in the sea when I am next there....

Di

PS I took up sailing as the weather in the UK meant my dive trips were often blown out (well, that & my partners massive bend). I don't think I really thought that one through as if there was no wind, we would have a fabulous trip!!
 
lustyd said:
Blimey, looks to me like the weather had a serious affect on the number of people diving over the last few years. Perhaps we ought to start a YBW dive club with the explicit intention of only diving Studland and reporting every seahorse? Could be a dramatic rise in "population" if we did.
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Yes let's form a dive club; have you seen ' Thunderball ' ?!
 
Neil Garrick-Maidment, director of Seahorse Trust, said: 'The colony at Studland was by far the largest known around the UK and one of the most important in Europe.


Or could it be that by handling them and tagging them it shortens their life?
 
It's hardly worth going over all the old ground, but as far as I know ONE seahorse has been spotted at Studland this year.

It is by no means a unique ' colony ' either, they are evident all over the Solent and South Coast; a lot are at commercial business premises, where sightings are scrupulously NOT reported for fear of the SeaHorse Trust - all one of him - interfering with business.

This latest Daily Mail thing is just annoying bad journalism, he's upset that he didn't get his way and looked foolish at a recent meeting but those that matter have made their decisions.
 
It's probably the newbie divers bouyancy control i.e. crashing to the bottom & crushing the little blighters, kneeling on them, prodding them, confusing them for scallops, taking one home to show the kids etc etc

Di
 
Twister_Ken said:
Not for nothing is it known as the Daily Whail. AFAIK no one in power takes it seriously, given that UKIP is not yet in power.
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I wish that were so.... Paul Dacre is by and far the most powerfull and influentialan on fleet street right now, he has total control of the mail and the MOS, the number two circulating daily newspaper in the uk after the sun, and also online, the number one newspaper web site world wide and the only site that is profitable in the uk...

Reflect on how much influence he has here..... The mail is undoubtedly the single
Most influential newspaper in mainstream populist politics in the uk. It has
Money, and it has the circulation. It is the paper of the "silent majority".

It is naive in the extreme to think they have no influence.

I worked for them for nearly 25 years, and I never understood why people thought Murdoch was
More powerfull.

Hopefully it won't be in the paper. But if it makes a solid page lead....
 
northwind said:
Neil Garrick-Maidment, director of Seahorse Trust, said: 'The colony at Studland was by far the largest known around the UK and one of the most important in Europe.


Or could it be that by handling them and tagging them it shortens their life?
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More likely the seahorses thrive on the metallic salts leached out of anchor chain and ground tackle, or possibly the nutrients dissolving out of antifoul. As I learned in first year statistics, "correlation is not causation".
 
elton said:
More likely the seahorses thrive on the metallic salts leached out of anchor chain and ground tackle, or possibly the nutrients dissolving out of antifoul. As I learned in first year statistics, "correlation is not causation".
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Do Global Warming scientists do that course?
 
TradewindSailor said:
Now that it's a seahorse free area, perhaps we should use it as an anchorage?
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Hahaha! Yeah, He has shot himself now! Debate over! And if the little buggers are
Back next year it can't be the anchors that are putting em off...
 
photodog said:
I wish that were so.... Paul Dacre is by and far the most powerfull and influentialan on fleet street right now, he has total control of the mail and the MOS, the number two circulating daily newspaper in the uk after the sun, and also online, the number one newspaper web site world wide and the only site that is profitable in the uk...

Reflect on how much influence he has here..... The mail is undoubtedly the single
Most influential newspaper in mainstream populist politics in the uk. It has
Money, and it has the circulation. It is the paper of the "silent majority".

It is naive in the extreme to think they have no influence.
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This is terrifying.

I recall, when I lived in North Devon, a regular at my local who was the headmaster of a local primary school.

He used to sit at the bar of an evening and spout forth his opinionated nonsense.

One summer's evening, I glanced at the copy of the Daily Mail he had been reading and realised that the cretin's pronouncements were lifted verbatim from it!

Help!
 
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