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Another one for the "worth the effort" DIY files... Cathy and her husband wanted a chlorine-free pool big enough for the whole family to splash around in during the hot Santa Rosa summer. Hoping for something more attractive than a big vinyl tub, they finally decided on a galvanized steel stock tank. All it took was some clever DIY plumbing, and for about $500 they were living the good life. Learn how they did it after the jump...
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I remember going to a friend's cotton farm one summer and we swam in the actual stock tank that the cattle used! The water was pumped up from the artesian wells by windmill and the cows lined up around the rim. It was a lot bigger and decidely unclean. But in the middle of the New Mexico desert, it was one way to keep cool. This little stock tank is a sparkling oasis in Santa Rosa. Congrats on making a cool backyard getaway.
YES! glad someone else tried this before me... i've the plans all sketched out, too... heading to her blog presently.
This is a farm swimming pool if I've ever seen one! My friend's family had beef cattle, and they would fill one of these up for us to swim in during the summer. I don't remember it being particularly dirty, but it didn't have the fancy-shmancy pump attached to it. I don't know how they kept it clean.
This is awesome. I love the idea!
My father is a pool chem guy, and I'd talk to him about keeping the water from getting too alkaline or too basic (which is a major problem with pools), but it looks worth the try!
Are they going to wait for one of their kids to get sick before they start treating their pool water? All these people have done is provide their kids with a steaming bowl of e. coli to swim in. For the love of God and the health of your kids, please install an ozone or UV system to treat that water if you have an ill-informed problem with chlorine. Jeez!
We used to do this back in the good ol' college days in Texas. I think it was even jacked up on cinder blocks with an open fire under it for winter... Until the 'engineers' rigged something up with propane. It never occurred to us, the potential harmful bacteria. I guess we drank enough alcohol to be safe. ;)
We'll be adding an ozone treatment this season, or we will start in with the chemicals. We've got a pool guy in the family as well. Thanks for your concern! ... Cathy
It's not terribly deep, and it looks to be out in the sun. Wouldn't UV and oxygen be enough to kill off a lot of harmful bacteria (not to mention all the chlorine that's in tap water to begin with).
Our friends parents have a salt water pool. I know nothing of pools, but it feels amazing when you are in/out of it. None of that starchy chemical feel.
We had one of these growing up on the farm, and my brother and I absolutely loved it. My dad even built an awning over it so the water wouldn't get too hot on sunny summer days. We would run around in circles and create a whirlpool, and then let the swirling water carry us around. It was definitely not clean water, but as far as I can remember none of us got sick from it, and my brother and I now have pretty robust immune systems (and no allergies). The bottoms of those tanks do get pretty slippery, though, so make sure the kids don't slip and hit their heads on the sides!
Love it love it. Of course I am from Texas. If I had a house and yard I would so have one.
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love it. are there sharp edges on those tanks if they are meant for stock? what is the base like?
That is AWESOME. VERY awesome.
Oh for pity's sake Paul, do you really believe there are more germs in a clean stock tank than in the average river or lake that many of us swim in? Chill already. Most of my mid-western relatives lived on farms (I was the city girl) and we all swam in stock tanks (used ones) every summer. No one got sick EVER.
I wonder why my galvanized tub (smaller version) is rusting so badly.
My daughters' grandparents did this back in the mid 1990's. No filter though. The girls loved it!! When they 'outgrew' it, their grandpa took the empty steel 'pool' out to the corrals for the cattle.
Paul- some people have severe allergies to chlorine (myself included)...so your "ill informed" comment is way off base. Perhaps they just don't want to deluge their bodies with unnecessary toxic chemicals? I'm sure they're being responsible and testing the pool water regularly.
Wow this brings me back to my childhood (but a lot cleaner). I love it, and honestly Paul I'm more worried about drinking the tap water in LA then I am worried about swimming in a this pool.
Brettm: The top is rolled, so there are no sharp edges. The sides are surprisingly comfortable to lean against. The bottom is just metal, so it's reflective and a little slippery.
Thanks for all the positive comments, we love the pool.
There is a website that talks about adapting these tanks to make hot tubs. Certain kinds of galvanized tubs are more suitable than others, I recall. Other people use them to make above ground lily pools.
The problem is, how to get one delivered to a city dwelling. They are too big to fit in the back of a car, or even a small pickup truck in some cases. You need to rent a special truck. And then how does one get it into the back yard of a brownstone? Enquiring minds would like to know. Over the roof?
"We would run around in circles and create a whirlpool, and then let the swirling water carry us around..." - safarikate
Oh the memories! We did this too...so fun! Thanks for reminding me :D
Oh, this brings back memories! Every summer I spent a week with my cousins who lived on a farm and they had one of these but without the filter. We'd just fill it up and swim. No one ever got sick. Actually, I think all the germs I was exposed to playing out in the yard every day made me healthier, built my immune system. lol
The neighbors used to have one of these, no filter or anything, just slimy algae - none of us ever got sick, but we also spent plenty of time in the lake and river, rolling around in untreated sewage and cow runoff and survived that just fine. Looks like fun!
aesargeant: Please take a chemistry class. Toxicity is a matter of dosage, water itself is toxic in the right dose. Chlorinated water is perfectly harmless to human beings and has never been proven otherwise. It sure beats the alternatives. Chlorine causes an immune response in you. Interesting. Does it happen only when you know there's chlorine present? How do you cope with the naturally-occurring levels of chlorine that surround you at all times? Is it OK when it's bound to sodium or are you allergic to table salt too? How does your nervous system work then?
LBhirise: The problem with closed systems like pools is that they recirculate the same small amount of water. Recirculating water and not treating it will allow microorganisms (most benign and some really bad) to build their numbers to the point where you can get sick. A pond or a stream is not a closed system because it's forever being replenished just like functioning stock tanks are. Untreated pool water is one poopy diaper away from a crypto outbreak. It probably won't hurt anybody in the long run but crypto is no fun.
You can only test for organisms you suspect are present. Unfortunately there aren't readily available tests that will magically show you everything that's in water. Seriously though and with all Chicken Little-ing set aside, if you plan to reuse the same water for months at a time you have to do something to keep it sterile. Chlorination's the cheapest option, but there are other options out there like ozone filters and UV treatment. Barring that, replace the water every week or so. Your intestines will thank you.
There's a reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls chlorine a vital part of the first line of defense against bacteria and viruses that can make swimmers sick. Waterborne germs – too tiny to be removed by your filter -- can cause diarrhea, swimmer's ear and skin infections, like athlete's foot. Talk about ruining your day! Chlorine quickly and effectively disinfects pool water and kills most germs within minutes. When chlorine levels are managed within the recommended range for swimming pool water, authorities agree the chlorine itself does not pose any known health risks. The website www.healthypools.org includes information on how to recognize a healthy pool, including instructions for testing pool water chemistry.
Ozone and ultraviolet light can enhance water quality and control some chlorine resistant germs, such as Cryptosporidium. However, these technologies do not replace the need for chlorine. Unlike other disinfectants, only chlorine provides a residual level that continues to disinfect long after it's applied.
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Paul, Jeff-
Please have a beer and chill.
I'm sure that the homeowners will attack the poopy diaper problem if it arises. Otherwise these obviously intelligent and capable adults have made a personal decision that the benefits of avoiding chemical treatment (chlorinated pool water exacerbates dry skin and eczema) outweigh the (rather unlikely) probability of a swimming-pool borne illness. Jeff obviously makes a living from selling these types of products, and it seems likely that Paul does to- but please don't be so condescending to those of us who choose not to buy into your services.
I, like many other respondents, managed to spend most of my young life swimming in microorganism- infested ponds, creeks, lakes, reservoirs and cattle tanks with no ill effects. I'm going to go out on an un-googled limb and say there is a statistically insignificant liklihood of getting any sort of infection from a clean, aerated, human-only and privately used, pool. And fwiw, I'm pretty sure the design fans that frequent this blog would prefer that you take your marketing ploys and scare tactics someplace else.
Ummmm. I'm a kitchen designer with no real horse in this race Talby. Believe it or not, some lay people can see the benefits of science, even the science of chemistry. So while we're checking assumptions, let's not assume that all public health measures are some dark, corporate conspiracy to make you sick and take your money.
I too had a rural childhood and spent a huge amount of that time swimming in creeks, ponds and lakes. A natural water reservoir is an intact ecosystem that constantly replenishes itself with fresh water. A closed, thousand-gallon recirculating system has nothing in common with a stream or a pond and is in fact stagnant water.
Swimming in such water isn't a guarantee that someone will get sick, it is however a step down a slope that doesn't have a happy ending.
Congrats on not being part of a global chlorine conspiracy, I guess, but you've still managed to ignore my point. This water is not stagnant (you noticed the "recirculating" part yourself) and is private, aerated and filtered, which means that it presents no real likelihood of contamination. (Surprise surprise- I actually *agree* that chlorine is necessary in other situations.)
The beef I have is the alarmist tendencies presented that if someone chooses to do something that does not perfectly line up with your notions of "safe" then it is surely a "step down a slope" to some nebulous disaster- regardless of how unlikely any such event might be.
I also appreciate your assumption about my valuation of science- I happen to be a geologist and though my physicist boyfriend claims my field "doesn't count" the last time I checked, it is indeed one of the hard sciences. (The benefit of having an education and career in the sciences is that one starts to appreciate the difference between factual evidence and probability vs. the over-reactions of doom sayers and chicken littles.)
This is the first time I've read the comments to the end. Almost as much entertainment as Waldorf's kids are getting from that pool, I bet!
Haha Patsy, I was thinking the same thing! :)
i love this idea. it seems like sand might make it more comfortable to sit on the bottom. does anyone know if that would work with the filtering system?
I feel your pain. I'm a chemical engineer with a minor in geology, my physicist boyfriend, finds my "little field of science" to be cute and amusing. Grrr
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MONARDA - do you have access to the back even narrow? you can roll the baby back there. There is also a smaller tub that looks more like a bath tub.
Would a hot tub make the metal too hot?
Hi guys,
I wanted to lend a gentle "me too" to Jeff's comments. My ex-husband and I have both kept pools over the past couple of years. Our daughter kept getting the most raging inner-ear infections after spending the weekend with him. It turned out that he wasn't maintaining his pool chemicals. Growing up in Texas, we always had pools, but he was new to the whole thing and didn't know he was supposed to test the water, do weekly shock treatments, and keep his chlorine levels right.
There are alternatives to chlorine, if that's what's deterring you from that whole thing. They have salt systems that are very affordable for a pool your size, around a couple hundred bucks.
As a mom who had to keep her kid out of the pool for most of the summer while she went through round after round of antibiotics and painful inner ear infections, I just would hate for your lesson to be learned the same way.
Best wishes. And congrats on an otherwise genius project. I think it's awesome and I wish I thought of it before I plunked down for another quick set pool.
Have a fun summer!
Ooh! As I was reading through again I noticed some comments about the bottom being slippery. Why couldn't you use some of those little suction cup stickers that they make for the floor of bath tubs?
Or if you wanted to go whole hog, I bet you could spray the bottom with rubberized truck bed liner or something.
Bravo for your creativity. Very cool!
Y'All call this a "stock tank swimmin' pool", but where I come from, A ''Redneck swimmin' pool" is what most people I know would call it....
but you city slickers just seem to have to have a proper name for everythin'.
we been doin' this for at least the last 30 - 40 years....maybe longer, so this is not new to me, but then again, maybe it is to some others.
The ones we use, are 15 feet or so in diameter& about 3 feet deep...bigger than what you show in the article....few things are better than to have the whole family over for a pig roast or "rat fry" (that's muskrat, NOT garbage rat...also called "water rats") though I must admit, most city slickers have a problem with a rat fry...they just can't seem to stomach it for some reason....don't know why, them rats are good eatin'. ;)
Anyway, fillin' up one of these tanks makes for a lot of fun for both the youngin's & the adults...just make sure grandpa doesn't wear his depends in the pool....not only is it embaressin', but it can be messy too.
usin' the pool to water yer garden is a good idea....we been doin' that for years too.
puttin' a valve in the side of the pool is easier than skinnin' a coon(raccoon, for you city slickers) & only takes a few minutes...about the length of time it takes to finish of a Qt. of moonshine.
Y'All enjoy yer pool & don't let the ticks bite too much! :D
Did this 20 years ago with a ramp for 2 yellow labs to access pool. They loved it! Our Yorkie enjoyed it as well but preferred to swim without the big girls splashing around.


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In honour of TSN's 25th Anniversary, TSN.ca is taking a look at some of the top sports stories over the last 25 years. Next up, great individual achievements in non-traditional Canadian sports, including Mike Weir's history-making victory at The Masters.
Canada prides itself on being a hockey superpower, but many athletes have accomplished great things in other sports not usually considered part of the Canadian fabric.
Baseball is considered America's pastime. But in recent years, Canadians have made their mark in Major League Baseball.
Larry Walker of Maple Ridge, B.C. appeared in five All-Star Games, won seven Gold Gloves and was voted the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1997. Montreal's Eric Gagne captured the National League's Cy Young Award in 2003 after successfully converting on all 55 save opportunities with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Justin Morneau of New Westminster, B.C. is at the top of his game, having appeared in the last three All-Star Games and winning the American League's MVP Award in 2006.
And while Canadian Dr. James Naismith is credited with inventing the game of basketball, it has long been dominated by our neighbours to the south. But Victoria, B.C.'s Steve Nash brought the focus back north of the border in 2004-05, when he captured the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award for the first time.
The following season, Nash became just the ninth player ever to win back-to-back MVP titles and only the third guard to do it, joining the likes of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.
Before his untimely death in 1982, Gilles Villeneuve put Canada on the Formula One racing map, winning six career races and finishing second in the driver's championship in 1979. His son, Jacques would carry on the family tradition by winning the Formula One title in 1997.
But perhaps the greatest individual achievement in the last 25 years of Canadian sports that did not happen on ice may very well be Mike Weir's win at Augusta National in 2003.
Weir was facing a daunting task heading to The Masters, knowing no Canadian or left-handed golfer had ever donned the treasured Green Jacket. But looking back, the native of Bright's Grove, Ontario seemed destined to capture a major.
In 1998, Weir won the PGA Tour's qualifying school to earn his card and then excited golf fans in Vancouver and across the nation the following year by picking up his first Tour victory at the Air Canada Championship.
Loaded with confidence, Weir finished sixth on the money list in 2000, cashing his richest cheque yet by winning the World Golf Championships in Spain. He also became the first Canadian to participate in the President's Cup.
The next season, the lefthander won the TOUR Championship, commonly known as the fifth major and climbed into the top 10 in the World Rankings.
In 2003, Weir opened The Masters with a solid 2-under round of 70 and followed that up with a 4-under 68 to take a four-shot lead into the weekend.
Despite having five career tour victories before The Masters, Weir had never held the lead through 36 holes so he was entering foreign territory. And the bump in the road came on Moving Day when Weir registered six bogeys en route to a 3-over 75, dropping him two strokes behind third-round leader Jeff Maggert.
But Weir would rebound on Sunday. With Maggert falling off the pace early, Weir engaged in a battle with Len Mattiace on the back nine.
"Normally when I'm covering a golf tournament, I'll go back to the media centre to watch the last nine holes, primarily because it can be so difficult to follow the action over a large area such as a golf course," said TSN Golf Insider Bob Weeks. "But that day, I remember sensing something big was happening; you could see the confidence Mike had in his game and so I decided to keep going."
As a result, Weeks watched as Weir stood on the 18th green with a 7-foot par putt to get into a playoff. The chance at history was just a knee-knocker away.
For TSN's Cory Woron, a golf enthusiast who has played Augusta National, this is when it started to sink in.
"I just remember watching him sink putt after putt," he said. "Here he was after shooting 3-over in round three, facing down one crucial putt after another. You hoped it would continue but you also knew they could stop going in at any moment. It wasn't until his 7-footer on 18 to get into the playoff that I thought it would happen."
With an entire nation holding its collective breath, Weir rolled the putt into the centre of the cup and confidently headed to the 10th hole for the playoff. Later, Weir would say it was the biggest shot of his life.
The playoff proved to be almost anti-climactic when Mattiace hit his approach shot into the woods and nearly ran his par putt off the green, leaving Weir with a tap-in bogey to claim the victory. After having the Green Jacket handed to him by 2002 champion Tiger Woods, Weir received a congratulatory call from then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
"As we were getting ready to tape a segment for SportsCentre by Butler Cabin, Chairman of Augusta National, Hootie Johnson walked by and said, 'This must be a big day for Canada,'" said Weeks. "I told him that was the ultimate understatement and went on to explain that it was probably one of the biggest sporting events in the country's history."
The importance of Weir's victory cannot be overestimated. Not only did he raise the profile of golf across an entire country, he gave every young Canadian golfer the notion that anything is possible.
"The effects of that win are still being felt today, with a lot of increased attention on the game, young players who started or who were encouraged because of that victory," Weeks said. "I think that more than anything is the legacy of the victory - if this left-handed kid from small town Ontario can go on to win one of the biggest prizes in golf, then so can any one else who dreams big enough."
Now with Tiger Woods in the prime of his career, the chances of winning majors are more difficult than ever. But with one major on his resume, could the 39-year-old Weir win another?
"I don't see why not," said Woron. "He almost set a U.S. Open record this year with an opening round 64. The problem is Weir is never going to overpower a golf course. His strengths lie in his short game and putting, but if you're relying on making a ton of par saves all week, you're going to need a lot of other things to go your way."


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There are certain moments when you feel so far removed from your everyday reality that you can barely remember it. As I lay totally naked on a slab of cool white marble in Turkey last week while a woman methodically massaged my muscles into jelly, I had one such moment. Istanbul's newly opened Ayasofya Hurrem Sultan Bath is full of them. Housed in a renovated sixteenth-century hammam that was a carpet store and a makeshift facility for prisoners before being restored to its former glory, the spa is located smack-dab in between two of the city's greatest treasures, the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia. As you walk through its impressive entryway and descend into the massive multilevel locker room inside, you are handed slippers and a Turkish-style wrap before being led by your therapist into the hammam area. The ritual begins in the hot section, where you sweat it out while being doused in warm water. Then it's off to the tepidarium, where you are treated to a thorough (and I mean, thorough) head-to-toe exfoliation with a traditional mitt. Next, you lie down in the central area of the hammam, a cool towel draped over your head, as you are covered in foam and cleansed. A rigorous massage and a hair washing with a flowering Judas tree-scented shampoo and conditioner follow before the final rinse. If you haven't heard, Istanbul is in the midst of a cool revival. Make that a cool and hot revival.
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If there's a bustle in your hedgerowI agree with Miguel's first paragraph here wholeheartedly. A trite aphorism of New Age seminars is You make yourself right by making other people wrong. It's a cliche wrapped around a kernel of insight, not unlike another cliche from the same direction: Be here now, which of course is the heart of any system of meditation. Easy to say but so hard to do in either case.
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On March 29, when Talley went to the podium, she was not the presenter, but the honoree. She was given a plaque recognizing her many years as an active advocate for the arts in Tracy.
Bill Meyer, who heads arts education for the Tracy Unified School District, made the presentation, along with Dr. James Franco, superintendent of schools. Meyer said Talley has backed the arts, and arts education, in a number of capacities.
"While a school board member in Tracy and on the county board of education, Gretchen always stood up for arts education," Meyer said. "She is an important role model for arts advocacy in our community."
In addition to her service on the boards of education, Talley was multi-year chairwoman of Tracy Friends of the Stockton Symphony, which sponsored symphony concerts in Tracy and presented Gordon and Anthea Wells Music Scholarships to middle school music students.
Four of those $250 scholarships — for special instruction or purchase of an instrument — were awarded to middle school students during the evening.
• Caroline Kimura plays violin in the Williams Middle School orchestra and was instrumental in creating a student-led string quartet, which will perform several pieces at the Williams concert in May.
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• Rachel Havens plays violin in the string orchestra at Monte Vista Middle School and is a leader in that ensemble. She also plays bass guitar in the jazz band and rock band and is a member of the percussion ensemble, playing piano and mallets.
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Located in East Africa, Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and in the world. Ethiopia's economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for 46% of GDP and 85% of total employment. The agricultural sector suffers from poor cultivation practices and frequent drought, but recent joint efforts by the Government of Ethiopia and supporters have strengthened Ethiopia's agricultural resilience, contributing to a reduction in the number of Ethiopians threatened with starvation. The banking, insurance, and micro-credit industries are restricted to domestic investors, but Ethiopia has attracted significant foreign investment in textiles, leather, commercial agriculture and manufacturing. While GDP growth has remained high, with two digit growth for 7 years continuously, per capita income is still among the lowest in the world. Ethiopia's economy sustains on large investment in infrastructure as a basis for the country's development and implements the five year 'Growth and Transformation Plan' under its new leadership after Prime Minister Mele's passing.
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THP-Ethiopia, established in 2004, is committed to empowering the rural communities of Ethiopia to create lasting society-wide progress in order to achieve a sustainable end of hunger and poverty. THP-Ethiopia has been implementing six epicenters in 22 villages of five districts in Oromiya, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region and Amhara regional states.
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Regarding food security activities, THP-Ethiopia promotes a holistic approach where by many of its activities contribute to increased access to sufficient food, improved diets, greater nutritional variety and stronger ties to local resources. To ensure food security among partners THP-Ethiopia supports activities like epicenter farming, food banks, food bank supplements (agricultural input revolving fund); increasing household production; input supply, training, demonstration/trial. In collaboration with the Epicenter Committee and the local Agricultural and Rural Development Office, THP-Ethiopia established forest nursery, seedlings forestation and soil and water conservation activities.
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For a great many patients, cancer's effects continue long after treatment is completed. Consequently, NCI's survivorship science, under the leadership of the Office of Cancer Survivorship (OCS), seeks to understand, for example, why two patients with strikingly similar tumors may face starkly different possibilities of future disease recurrence. We also track and study the experiences of former patients in order to obtain deeper knowledge about the posttreatment effects of cancer drugs and devices. And we seek answers about how patients can better cope with the emotional and financial pressures that may result from successful treatment.
This special issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin on cancer survivorship marks the 10th anniversary of OCS, a founding that owes a great debt to a landmark report developed under the leadership of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. That 1996 paper, Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: Access, Advocacy, Action & Accountability, called for research on a range of issues, including quality of life and outcomes; the impact and burden of cancer care on caregivers; case management; the effects of cancer on childbearing; and differences in survivorship based on culture and ethnicity.
In its first decade, OCS has blossomed from a fledgling program to a source of solid science that today administers more than 125 research grants and conducts important symposia for the cancer community, such as its recent 3-day conference, "Cancer Survivorship: Embracing the Future," cosponsored by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Events like this conference remind us that cancer alters not just the lives of patients, but of parents, children, friends, loved ones, and caregivers, all of whom are included in NCI's definition of "survivor." Indeed, for many of our colleagues at NCI, cancer is a personal - as well as a professional - issue, because they are themselves survivors. In honor of loved ones, in tribute to former patients, or in testament to their own cancer battles, a number of NCI staff members have volunteered the photographs you see at the top of this page and the pages that follow. Together we mark a first decade of NCI's OCS, and we look forward to every scientific discovery and new kernel of knowledge OCS will produce in the years ahead.
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The Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) is one of the smallest members of the earless seal family and unique in that it is found exclusively in the brackish Caspian Sea. They can be found not only along the shorelines, but also on the many rocky islands and floating blocks of ice that dot the Caspian Sea. In winter, and cooler parts of the spring and autumn season, these marine mammals populate the Northern Caspian. As the ice melts in the warmer season, they can be found on the mouths of the Volga and Ural Rivers, as well as the southern latitudes of the Caspian where cooler waters can be found due to greater depth.
It is so-far unclear as to how these seals became isolated in the landlocked Caspian Sea. One of the most widely known hypotheses argues that the seals reached the Caspian during the Quaternary period from the north when continental ice sheets melted, and are descended from the ringed seal.
Adults are approximately 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length and weigh around 86 kilograms (190 lb); males are generally larger and bulkier. Their dental formula is I 3/2, R 1/1, PC 6/5.
Caspian seals are shallow divers, with diving depths typically reaching 50 meters and lasting about a minute, although deeper and longer depths have been recorded, with at least one individual seen at depths in excess of 165m.[2] They are gregarious, spending most of their time in large colonies.
After an 11 month gestation period, the single pups are born in January and February. Similar to other ringed seals, these pups are born with white pelage and weigh about 5 kilograms. Their white coat is molted at around three weeks to a month. Sexual maturity is reached at 5 years for females, and about 6 or 7 years for males.
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Caspian seals feed on cyprinids, gobies, and crustaceans. The seals may enter river estuaries to eat carp, roach and pike-perch.
Sea eagles are known to hunt these seals, which results in a high number of fatalities for the juveniles. They are also hunted by humans for subsistence and commerce. Due to the increasing industrial development in the surrounding region, pollutants and pesticides have entered the Caspian and caused significant habitat problems, weakened immune systems and contributed to disease outbreaks.
In a three-week period in February 1978, wolves were responsible for the wanton killing of numerous seals near Astrakhan. Between 17 and 40% of the seals in the area were estimated to have been killed, but not eaten.[3]
Since the late 1990s, there have been several cases of many Caspian seals dying due to canine distemper virus.
A century ago there were an estimated 1.5 million seals; by the 1980s, there were about 400,000.[4]
- ^ Härkönen, T. (2008). Pusa caspica. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 29 January 2009.
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- ^ Rumyantsev, V. D.; Khuraskin, L. S. (1978). "New data on the mortality of the Caspian seal due to wolves". In P. A. Panteleev et al.,. Page 187 in Congress of the All-Union Theriological Society, 2nd. ZR 116 (19). Moscow: Nauka. p. 5669.
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External links[edit]
- Caspian seal factsheet at pinnipeds.org
- "Caspian Seal under threat of extinction", Baztab newspaper. Persian article.


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CALGARY/HOUSTON (Reuters) - For the last three years, Canada has lagged the United States in using its rail system to haul crude oil, hindered by a lack of loading terminals and a shortage of specially built rail cars that reheat viscous oil sands crude.
Now it's on the brink of catching up. Over the next 12 months, producers like Cenovus Energy Inc
Yet they are opening up a new phase in the oil-by-rail boom at a moment of deepening uncertainty. An oil-train derailment that killed 50 people in Quebec has cast a shadow over the controversial practice and could raise new hurdles.
For the moment, the handful of new projects to potentially quadruple the amount of oil sands crude shipped by rail are moving ahead. Exports could soon rival U.S. shale oil rail shipments, currently three times greater than Canada's.
James Cairns, vice president of petroleum and chemicals at Canadian National Railway Co
"In my 26 years in the rail business I have never seen this much massive investment in CN lines by our customers to get their products onto our railways," Cairns said. CN, the nation's largest carrier, expects to more than double last year's 30,000 carloads of raw bitumen and crude this year.
It is still too early to say how the derailment in the small town of Lac-Megantic will affect the oil-by-rail trend. The runaway 72-car oil train derailed and exploded in the center of the town in the worst North American rail disaster in two decades. The company that operated the train said the sole engineer on duty failed to adequately secure it.
Environmentalists and local groups have already expressed deep concerns about oil trains crisscrossing the continent, mirroring the vigorous campaigns against new pipelines.
Early this year, China-owned oil sands producer Nexen faced objections to a proposed project to move crude by rail to the Port of Prince Rupert on the West Coast.
Mike Hudema, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace, says many groups have expressed concerns, "especially in the wake of Lac-Megantic." The main worry is an older model tank car that regulators say is flawed. Cars ordered after October 2011, which include most heated cars, are better protected from accidents. Nexen says the project has not advanced for months.
Still, oil executives say the Quebec disaster should not slow progress.
"This won't have an impact," said Lyle Stevens, senior vice president of North American exploitation at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd
Canada is entering a trade that has upended U.S. crude oil markets for three years. As hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling boosted Bakken oil output, a shortage of pipeline capacity in North Dakota and significant price discrepancies turned producers and traders toward trains, boosting shipments from zero to more than 500,000 bpd in that period.
Canadian rail loadings have risen more modestly, according to data. Despite discounts of as much as $40 a barrel between Western Canada Select heavy blend and U.S. crude, a lack of logistics and railcars has limited growth. Pipelines, while nearly full, remained a viable, typically cheaper, option.
This year, the Railway Association of Canada expects up to 140,000 carloads of crude to be shipped, equivalent to about 230,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the 600-barrel tank cars that are standard for Canada. In 2009, only 500 cars were loaded.
In the United States, shipments swelled to almost 100,000 cars in the first quarter, some 760,000 bpd based on the 700-barrel cars that are standard for lighter oil shipments, according to American Association of Railroads data.
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Canada is poised to catch up. Although Gulf Coast refiners are starting to replace Bakken rail shipments with nearby Texas shale oil, they are eager to buy Canadian heavy crude instead of costlier imports.
"We could be seeing a shift in Bakken by rail to Canadian crude by rail," said Wood Mackenzie analyst Anna Temple.
Canada exported an average of 46,000 bpd of crude by rail to the United States in 2012, only 2 percent of total crude exports, according to National Energy Board data. But it reached 120,000 bpd in December, and many industry players estimated more than 200,000 bpd by the end of 2013.
As shipments of oil sands from landlocked Alberta to lucrative U.S. markets grow, they may also play into the debate over the contentious northern leg of TransCanada Corp's
In a preliminary report, the U.S. State Department said rejecting the pipeline would not necessarily slow production since rail shipments would increase. But experts question whether there will be enough rail capacity.
Compared to the first wave of rail shipments from the Bakken, the new Canada boom is being driven by more complicated and potentially longer-lasting economics: the opportunity for producers to avoid blending bitumen with imported oil.
Raw bitumen straight out of the ground is hard and too viscous to move by pipeline or in a general-purpose railcars unless it is diluted. Current pipeline shipments have to be diluted with 30 percent condensate so they flow easily.
But the heated and coiled tank cars designed to carry bitumen require less or no diluent at all. As a result, more bitumen fills the car, reducing the cost of purchasing diluent, a growing share of which needs to be imported.
Smaller than standard oil tank cars, they are equipped with insulation to keep the bitumen warm during transit. When the car is ready to be unloaded, steam is pumped into special heater coils on the exterior to raise the temperature to around 150 degrees centigrade, allowing the bitumen to be pumped out.
"Rail is not just a stopgap. As producers become more accustomed to using this type of transport and as investments are made, it's not going to disappear overnight," said Mark Pinney, manager of markets and transportation at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
Diluent imports to Canada have risen five-fold since 2007 to 260,000 bpd, according to industry data. The Canadian Energy Research Institute forecasts demand at 670,000 bpd by 2020.
North American tank car makers such as Trinity Industries, Inc
Although companies do not provide data on the types of cars they are making, UBS analyst Eric Crawford says 60 percent of the backlog is for insulated cars that can transport bitumen.
Retrofitting some of the existing 300,000 oil tank car fleet is "not practical due to the costs," said Dennis Nuss, a spokesman for refiner Phillips 66
Companies including Gibson Energy and Canexus are building or expanding four terminals in western Canada that can load so-called "unit trains," with 120 cars carrying 70,000 barrels. These could cut the cost of a Gulf Coast shipment by 20 percent.
"The real bang for our buck is from the unit train and that comes in next year," says Don Swystun, vice president at Cenovus, which is counting on new terminals that will expand rail shipments five-fold to 30,000 bpd next year.
Gibson, which is signing up customers for a 60,000-bpd terminal in Hardisty, Alberta, estimates using a unit train would cut the cost of moving crude to the Gulf Coast to $14-$17 per barrel, compared with $17-$21 per barrel on a manifest train hauling mixed cargo.
Shippers are confident that rail trade will be profitable in the long term, even though the discount of benchmark U.S. crude prices to European Brent has slumped this month to a 2-1/2 year low, a disincentive for U.S. refiners to buy North American crude. Last week the number of rail cars loaded with oil in the United States and Canada fell to the lowest in six months.
U.S. refiners are also investing. Tesoro Corp
"Every time we bring in another barrel of Canadian heavy crude, we make enormous progress with regard to reducing our raw material cost," PBF Chairman Tom O'Malley recently told analysts. The refiner aims to triple deliveries to 80,000 bpd by year's end with new rail cars. "That is the game."
(Editing by Dave Gregorio and Jeffrey Benkoe)