(Originally posted by Stewart)

The Yacht Mogul knows yachts like the back of his hand, and Ucal Abbasli Design designs them to the T. When two stalwarts come together to create a superyacht, one can only expect something extraordinary. The result of this excellent partnership is the yacht concept Mogul 777. Yachting influencer Denis Suka, aka Yacht Mogul, has lent this 255 footer vessel his ingenious outlook to create a multi-level yacht that looks more like a resort than anything else. Mogul 777 is built with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure that flaunts several fancy features on its many cascading decks. At first sight the aspects that spring to notice almost immediately are five cascading decks, the glass-bottomed deck revealing the swimming pool beneath and a touch-and-go helipad.

There is a firepit surrounded by lounge seating on the higher deck. Several sun beds and lounging spots make it an apt floor to socialize and relax. On the top-most deck are spotted two rope swings suspended over an unmatched view of the waters. Similarly, a Jacuzzi is located on her sun deck, and the main deck comprises a central aquarium hovering over the beach club. The beach club looks enchanting after being surrounded by large glass panels on three sides. Guests can soak in this artificial beauty by leisurely spending time in the massive swimming pool, making a lasting impression with its waterfall.

Mogul 777 is undoubtedly designed to entertain guests and live life king-size. Suppose swimming in a pool isn’t your preference when the abundant ocean is available. In that case, the vessel flaunts two fold-down terraces that allow direct access to the sea, or a hydraulic swim platform drops down to water level from the stern. The owner’s deck is an entity that deserves a special mention. As expected, this area has the most panoramic view of the bow. The owner’s suite also enjoys a private outside deck area with its pool.

The vessel fits 18 guests in nine cabins, including a master suite situated on the private owner’s deck with panoramic views and access to the private pool. According to the yacht influencer, the maximum speed for this luxurious superyacht could be 24 knots. They will mostly be powered by a “greener” solution with either hydrogen or hybrid-electric, according to AutoEvolution.

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January 18, 2022 | 3,100 words, about 16 minutes

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Summer in Atlantic Canada can be an unreliable thing, emerging reluctantly from the damp cold of spring. But a sure sign of summer’s arrival is the sudden presence of Atlantic mackerel, which first appear as the trees are becoming flush with leaves in May, and depart with the coming of cool temperatures in the fall, schooling in enormous numbers on their migration up and down the coast. Along the way, they’re often plucked from the water, with some ending up in cases on a wharf in downtown Yarmouth, a small town on the southern tip of Nova Scotia, where in July 2021 volunteers for Seafest are unloading those cases in preparation for one of the fishing festival’s most incongruously popular events: the 12th-annual mackerel toss.

As he watches preparations from behind the line of sawhorses meant to contain spectators, Dave Warner, Seafest’s former president, explains that mackerel are a logical choice for the event. They’re a local fish that often turns up on fishing lines and in frying pans in the community, but they can also be experienced as something else entirely: a slippery, hand-sized projectile for a competitor to chuck in batches of 15 as their teammate attempts to catch the fish in a plastic bucket held in outstretched arms. As the competition begins, pairs line up at either end of the wharf, two teams at a time; the first toss of the event unspools a scream from the seagulls hovering overhead, and soon, the wharf is littered with the results of throws too short or too wide, as the fish fly out of people’s grasp.

“It’s not like throwing beanbags,” Warner says with a chuckle.

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Male seahorses take commitment seriously, famously going so far as to release their partners from the burden of pregnancy by taking it on themselves. Scientists have generally assumed that female seahorses are just as devoted. A recent study, however, shows that their commitment is shakier than initially thought. When subjected to episodes of forced separation, female seahorses will often take the opportunity to choose a different partner, even when given the option of reuniting with their former mate.

Dong Zhang, a researcher at the East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute and the paper’s lead author, says that while it was known that seahorse pair bonds can be broken by periods of separation, less understood was whether that relationship could be repaired. While not particularly romantic, the finding that they often can’t repair the bond does make sense from a competitive evolutionary perspective. If the female seahorse still preferred her original partner to other competing males, says Zhang, this would mean she would be ignoring new opportunities to mate with a potentially fitter male.

To delve into the intricacies of seahorse interpersonal relationships, Zhang and his colleagues placed male and female lined seahorses in a tank. After they had mated, the male was moved to another tank for four days and replaced by another male, which formed a new pairing with the female. The process was repeated with one last male for good measure, before all four seahorses were placed in the same tank to observe which male the female would choose. The team repeated the experiment with 24 different mating pairs in total.

In almost all cases, females showed no clear preference for their original partner. While Zhang and his coauthors concede that this may be down to the female failing to recognize her partner after so many days apart, what’s more likely is that the period of forced separation leveled the playing field between competing males that otherwise would have cemented their bond with the female through daily ritual greetings. Without the repetition of that intricate dance, the ties between the partners weakened, leading the female to consider other options.

(Originally posted by THEOCEANROAMER)