Updated Videos on ROFFS™.com – Be Sure to Check Out the “Hot News” Button on the ROFFS™ Homepage Dr. Mitchell Roffer from ROFFS™ Reviews Ocean Conditions – July 18, 2017  Please click below to watch the videos on our website now! Northeastern U.S. Above: July 18, 2017 review of the Northeastern U.S. ocean conditions. Please click HERE to watch full video on our website now! Southeastern U.S. Above: July 18, 2017 review of the Southeastern U.S. ocean conditions. Please click HERE to watch full video on our website now! Gulf of Mexico Above: July 18, 2017 review of the Gulf of Mexico ocean conditions. Please click HERE to watch full video on our website now! Flying Fish!                                 Not today! Video Courtesy: QuattriuX | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Tuna Action!                                  Great day running the Backlash today with a mixed bag thanks guys see ya next time!! Video Courtesy: Mike Romeo | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Above: Congratulations to ROFFS™ clients for the the early bird winner at the Blue Marlin Grand Championship, CE and junior angler Ryan Cooper, who got right back into action after leaving the Wharf Marina Friday morning. The 14-year-old teenager released a 500-pound blue (their first fish weighed 437.6 pounds), followed by a white and sailfish for a grand slam, all in less than an hour’s time. Ryan would also score a 28.2-pound dolphin while dad Scott Cooper landed a 28-pounder. Third place blue marlin too. These were 2nd Place and 3rd Place dolphin fish winners. Quite a tournament. Please click here to view our updated online photo gallery! Four Wheeling!                                      What do you think about this? Video Courtesy: Four Wheelers | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Saving a Koala!                       This little koala was drowning. The guys immediately leapt into action and saved its life! Video Courtesy: NTD Life | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Building a Skiff!                        Coming to life! Video Courtesy: Charles Levi Jr. | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Photographer Captures Incredibly Rare Shot Of Sperm Whales Sleeping Article Courtesy: demilked.com | Originally published: July 2017

Did you ever imagine the sperm whales sleeping? How would that look like..? If you still can’t picture that, then let the Swiss photographer Franco Banfi help you out.

Recently Franco snapped an extremely rare shot of a group of sperm whales in their sleep. He and a team of scuba divers were following the pack in the Caribbean Sea, near Dominica Island, when suddenly the whales stopped moving and went into a synchronized vertical rest.

This behavior was first documented only back in 2008, when a team of biologists from the UK and Japan drifted into a group of stationary sperm whales. After studying tagged whales the team found out that this collective nap occurs for approximately 7 percent of the whale’s life, in short stretches of just 6-24 minutes. Above: Franco’s photo “Flying Over the Sleepers” was a finalist in the 2017 Big Picture Competition in the category of Human/Nature. Photo Courtesy: Franco Banfi | Instagram. Please click HERE to read the full article on our website now!

Passing of Professor Robert Ginsburg, University of Miami Rosenstiel School Department of Marine Geosciences

We are deeply saddened by the passing of former professor Robert Ginsburg, University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School Department of Marine Geosciences.

Robert Nathan Ginsburg (1925-2017) was a geologist who studied carbonate sediments, their genesis, deposition, and transformation into mature rocks. He defined the profession of carbonate sedimentology and was one of the most influential thinkers in his field working in both industry and academia, retiring at the age of 85. His career began in 1950 when he left the University of Chicago to become a research assistant at the University of Miami’s Marine Laboratory, the precursor of the present Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). Above: Image Courtesy University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science | Facebook. Please click HERE to read the full article on our website now! Backlash? Feedback?

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