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Gundalow Company announces Virtual Gundalow Gathering Series
Staff Report
PORTSMOUTH The Gundalow Company has announced its Winter/Spring Virtual Gundalow Gatherings line up.
Now, in its eighth year, the event shifts from gatherings in private homes across the Seacoast, to welcoming a wider audience via a Zoom-based event calendar. The initial roster of speakers will entertain and engage all audiences on a variety of topics, said Rich Clyborne, Executive Director of the Gundalow Company. We wanted to make sure we continued this annual tradition; our gatherings are something many of our members and supporters look forward to each year.
Kicking off the series will be a documentary on February 25th. Blue Latitudes returns from last spring’s short film and discussion “Rigs to Reefs,” hosted by principals Emily Hazelwood and Amber Sparks, to present “Faka’apa’apa.” The film features Vava‘u, an island group in the Kingdom of Tonga where a government ban on w
The new use for abandoned oil rigs
The grey steel girders of Platform Holly rise 235ft (72m) above the waters of the Pacific Ocean, just a couple of miles off the Santa Barbara coast. Above the water, this decommissioned oil rig is dull and lifeless, but the view below the surface is very different. Beneath the waves, colourful fish, crabs, starfish and mussels congregate on the huge steel pylons, which stretch for more than 400ft (120m) to the ocean floor.
There are more than 12,000 offshore oil and gas platforms worldwide. As they drain their reservoirs of fossil fuels below the sea, they eventually become defunct when they produce too little fuel for extraction to be profitable to their operators.