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At least 25 tiger sharks ate a young humpback whale alive Monday off the Big Island’s Kailua-Kona Coast, an eyewitness reported yesterday.
But wildlife managers say they are more worried about the behavior of some people — who leaped into the ocean from boats while the feeding frenzy was happening.
Sharks feeding on an injured animal "is part of the natural processes of the ocean," said Justin Viezbicke, a marine conservation coordinator for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
The ailing whale was harassed and bitten throughout Monday morning and afternoon by at least 25 tiger sharks, he said.
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Viezbicke went to check on the whale after the sanctuary received a report Monday morning that it was being followed by sharks, he said.
By the time the whale died off Lyman’s Point at about 4 p.m., it had been badly mauled by the sharks, and Hawaii County officials had closed several nearby beaches, Viezbicke said.
"There were people that were definitely not obeying the 100-yard rule," Viezbicke said.
The sanctuary plans to open an investigation against the violators, said Jeff Walters, sanctuary co-manager.
The marine conservation professionals with Viezbicke took photos of the sharks and whale while remaining aboard their vessel and lowering a camera underwater, he said.
After the whale died, the DLNR boat was assisted by a commercial boat in towing the whale carcass three miles offshore and tie it to a fishing buoy. Nothing remained of the carcass yesterday.
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Ford Ironman World Championship
Kona, Hawaii
2.4 mi. swim • 112 mi. bike • 26.2 mi. run
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – Germany’s Normann Stadler won his second Ironman Triathlon title Saturday, setting a record in the bike stage and holding on in the marathon.
The 33-year-old Stadler, also the 2004 winner, finished the 140.6-mile endurance test in 8 hours, 11 minutes, 56 seconds. He completed the 112-mile bike leg in 4:18:23, more than 3 minutes better than last year’s record pace.
Michellie Jones of Australia, who was second last year, won the women’s race in 9:18:31…
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German Stadler wins second Ironman Triathlon – Other Sports – MSNBC.com
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday tasks easier. When I first posted publicly about IE7, I wrote that we would go further to defend users from phishing and malicious software. The Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and ActiveX opt-in will help keep users more secure. IE7 also delivers a much easier browsing experience with features like tabbed browsing (especially with QuickTabs), shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, and a new design that leaves more screen real estate for the web site you’re viewing. IE7’s CSS improvements are incredibly important for developers as many of you have made quite clear. I also think IE7’s RSS experience and platform are important, powerful, and innovative.
In addition to our release of IE7, Yahoo! has a customized version of the browser available today and over the next few days partners such as Weather.com and USA TODAY will offer their own customized versions. These versions will tailor the user experience with specific toolbars, additional search engines, favorites, and RSS feeds.
I want to thank everyone who provided feedback as we developed and fine-tuned Internet Explorer 7. Over the 20 months since Bill Gates first announced our commitment to deliver IE7, we released five betas and a release candidate to millions of users worldwide. With each release, your feedback helped us make IE7 better. Your contributions, ideas, and direct comments were crucial in helping us prioritize and focus our work. I can’t imagine delivering this product without the tremendous cooperation we enjoyed from so many of you as well as developers and partners.
That said, we’re not done. Even as we put the finishing touches on Windows Vista and release all the remaining language versions of IE7, we have already started work on the next versions of Internet Explorer. We’ll post more here soon about our plans for the product and our plans for listening to you.
Thanks,
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager
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"This is a display of the seismogram for a seismometer on Hualalai volcano south of the earthquake epicenters. While much of the signal is off scale, you can see both main shocks as well as the lack of earthquakes before and the immediate increase in earthquakes (aftershocks) after the main events."
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Two damaging earthquakes struck the northwest side of Hawai’i Island early on Sunday morning, October 15, 2006. The first was a magnitude-6.7 that occurred at 7:07 AM HST and was located 20 km northeast of the Kona airport at a depth of 38 km. Seven minutes later, a second earthquake, assigned a magnitude-6.0, struck 44 km north of the Kona airport at a depth of 20 km. While the two events only 7 minutes apart, the difference in depths means that the M6.0 may not be an aftershock of the M6.7 and that they are independent quakes.
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This is a display of the seismogram for a seismometer on Hualalai volcano south of the earthquake epicenters. While much of the signal is off scale, you can see both main shocks as well as the lack of earthquakes before and the immediate increase in earthquakes (aftershocks) after the main events. | large image | |
Over 80 aftershocks with magnitudes greater than 1.7 were recorded in the first 24 hours after the quake. The largest was a magnitude 4.2 that occurred at 10:35 AM HST on October 15. Like the second earthquake, preliminary locations for most of the aftershocks placed them at depths less than 20 km.
These earthquakes were felt statewide but most strongly in the North Kona and Kohala areas (http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/hi/). The shaking was strong enough to cause power generators to trip offline in Hawai’i, Maui, and O’ahu counties. Damage was reported mostly on the west side of Hawai’i island but also on Maui and O’ahu. There were no reported fatalities.
The first earthquake was the largest recorded in Hawai’i Island since the M6.7 under the east flank of Mauna Loa on November 16, 1983. The only two larger earthquakes were a M7.2 that occurred beneath Kilauea’s South Flank on November 29, 1975 and an estimated M7.9 that occurred beneath the southeast flank of Mauna Loa on April 2, 1868.
The most recent earthquakes were unusual for this area of Hawai’i Island. Prior to October 15, a M4.8 quake on May 14, 1982 was the largest of thirty-one earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4.0 that have been recorded by our modern seismic network since its inception in 1960.
The quakes did not affect the behavior of any nearby active volcanoes – Hualalai, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Haleakala. Kilauea volcano continues to erupt from the Pu’u ‘O’o vent.
The earthquakes probably reflect the earth’s response to loading by the islands. Preliminary analyses show a possible east-west slip plane and a similar orientation to the clustering of aftershocks. Further examination of all available data should shed some light on this most interesting and destructive seismic event.
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