ROFFS™ Fishy Times Newsletter – 82nd Edition – Updated Videos/Catch Reports, How to Prepare for Disaster at Sea & Caribbean Sargassum Problem NEWS

Updated Videos on ROFFS™.com – Be Sure to Check Out the “Hot News” Button on the ROFFS™ Homepage Grouper Eats Amberjack!  ROV video of 200# grouper eating a large amberjack! Video Courtesy: fishin4cars | YouTube Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now!

How Fish Act When They Won’t Touch your Bait  Some marlin and tuna act like this when you put your bait out sometimes. Video Courtesy: Outdoors 360 | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now!

Close Up Marlin!  Close Up Marlin! Video Courtesy: Olaf Grimkowski | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Oceanographer Helps in Search for Missing Teens – WPEC TV CBS  Video Courtesy: WPEC TV CBS Please click HERE to watch the video and read the article on our website now! How to Prepare for Disaster at Sea Article Courtesy: Florida Today | By: Ted Lund | Originally Published Aug 1, 2015 | Please click here for original article.

If you’ve ever spent any time on — or in — the water, you learn pretty quickly that the ocean is an incredibly vast expanse. But it really hits home if you take to the air and survey the places you normally fish, dive and boat.

That lesson was driven home several years ago while attempting to locate a dead sperm whale floating off Key West. It was 35 feet long and literally covered with giant tiger sharks. We knew its last location at sundown the day before, and a good friend and fishing buddy, Paul DePoo, owner of Island City Flying Service, offered me the use of a plane and pilot in hopes of finding and photographing the melee.

After three hours covering hundreds of square miles, we gave up. By 10 a.m. the next day, the carcass had drifted to the west — nearly 40 miles along the reef — and ended up aground in the Dry Tortugas.

The lesson?

Finding a bloated, 35-foot-long whale carcass being devoured by sharks is like finding a needle in a haystack. Finding a person, floating without a boat — is exponentially more difficult.

Randy Vance is an avid Central Florida Boater and author of “Boating for Dummies” (http://bit.ly/1DVOrvD) and calls Canaveral his home port.

“In this day and age, with the technology developing and costs coming down, there’s no reason to leave the dock without some basic safety gear that can really help if things take a turn for the worse,” Vance says.

The ARC Express ditch bag is buoyant, water-resistant and has plenty of pockets, zips and straps to hold important abandon ship gear, including an external pocket that gives you instant access to your EPIRB signaling device. Please click here to read more on how to prepare for disaster at sea on our website now! Caribbean Clogged: Seaweed Invasion Takes Over Beaches Article Courtesy: yahoo.com | By: Laura Begley Bloom | Originally Published August 4, 2015 | Please click here for original article.

It smells, it’s ugly, and it’s killing wildlife.

From the Riviera Maya of Mexico to the shores of islands like St. Martin, St. Thomas, and Anguilla, once-pristine beaches are being inundated by massive amounts of thick, brown seaweed that refuse to go away and are wreaking havoc on the ecosystems.

At a news conference on Tuesday, the Tobago House of Assembly declared a natural disaster and announced a $3 million budget to tackle the influx of seaweed on the island’s Atlantic coast.

Above: Sargassum seaweed covers the bay and beach at Speyside in Tobago. (Photo: Farley Augustine) Please click here to read more on the ongoing problem with sargassum in the Caribbean on our website now!

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