Almost 70 years after the United States nuked the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese are inadvertently nuking the shores of the Western United States.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
January 14, 2014

While publicly downplaying the threat posed by Fukushima radiation to the west coast, government scientists are preparing to monitor kelp forests across the entire state of California for contamination from the crippled nuclear power plant.

19 academic and government institutions will take part in the project, dubbed Kelp Watch 2014, which will collect samples of Giant Kelp and Bull Kelp from across the entire Californian coastline.

Sampling will begin next month and end in late winter, with scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory involved in the study.

“It is imperative that we monitor this coastal forest for any radioactive contaminants that will be arriving this year in the ocean currents from the Fukushima disaster,” CSULB biology professor Steven L. Manley Manley told CBS News.

Experts at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems in Spain have concluded that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 will begin reaching U.S. coastal waters in early 2014.

While publicly scoffing at independent researchers concerned about Fukushima radiation, public health authorities have been making preparations which many see as being connected to the ongoing crisis at the Daiichi nuclear plant.

The entire, original article can be found here: Scientists to Monitor California Kelp Forests For Fukushima Radiation
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However, some news sources say there is nothing to worry about…

Stop Worrying About Fukushima Radiation!

Regardless, I will keep diving these waters and balance out any radiation exposure by opting out of going through the porno scanners at the airport.

Thank you Divevets and Diver Wrinkles for bringing this to my attention.

You think you’re safe from the watch of the Department of Fish and Game while underwater?

Here’s a story of a man off of Catalina who got busted underwater…

From The California Department Of Fish And Wildlife News

California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officers cited a 46-year-old Ventura County man for using rubbing alcohol to force fish out of rocks and capturing them to sell.

The diver was cited for two Fish and Game Code violations: use of chemical while collecting marine aquaria and unlawful take of marine aquaria at Catalina Island, which is prohibited by law.

On the afternoon of Nov. 13, officers from the patrol boat Thresher observed a large recreational sailboat with commercial fishing license numbers painted on the stern anchored in Emerald Bay on the northeast coast of Catalina Island.

Officers boarded the boat and found a man sport fishing. The angler told the officers that his partner was SCUBA diving.

Officers entered the 62-degree water and observed a diver squirting a liquid (later determined to be rubbing alcohol) from a bottle into cracks of rocks.

The liquid was forcing small fish, Blue Banded Goby (Lythrypnus dalli), into the open water where the man then caught them with a small aquarium fish net and immediately put them in a small plastic receptacle attached to his SCUBA gear.

The warden used a mask and snorkel from just below the water’s surface to watch the diver squirt the bottle twice.

The warden then dove down, showed the diver his warden identification, and directed the diver to come to the surface.

Before ascending, the diver left one of his squirt bottles on the rocks and attempted to drop a small, mesh bag containing another squirt bottle.

A warden retrieved both squirt bottles and the mesh bag.

The entire article can be found here:

CDFW Officers Snag Diver off Catalina Island