{"id":3357,"date":"2010-07-23T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:53:43","slug":"navy-ship-from-the-netherlands-lions-mane-jellyfish-and-an-electrical-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Navy ship from the Netherlands, Lion&#8217;s mane jellyfish and an electrical bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to work today I stopped down by the harbor to take a picture of a oncoming ship. It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrography\" target=\"_blank\">hydrographic <\/a>survey vessel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensie.nl\/marine\/operationeel\/schepen\/hr_ms_snellius\/\" target=\"_blank\">HNLMS Snellius<\/a> (A 802) of the Netherlands Navy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/07\/towork_snellius.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/07\/towork_snellius.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then I also noticed a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish\" target=\"_blank\">Lion&#8217;s mane jellyfish<\/a> below me. Good for me that I was not about to take a swim! Must admit that I find the amount of jellyfish a bit scary, scientist are having trouble explaining the amount of jellyfishes invading our fjords this and previous years. But the most reasonable explanation involves overfishing as the reason for it, less fish, more jellyfish. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Two-thirds of Europe\u2019s fish stocks are heavily overfished&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ices.dk\">International Council for the Exploration of the Seas<\/a>, Annual fish stock status reports<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/07\/towork_lionsmane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/07\/towork_lionsmane.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This, and other things like the bee <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_collapse_disorder\">colony collapse disorder<\/a> makes me fear where the future. Not so much for my own sake, I do only have, give or take a few, 40 more years to walk (cycle) on this earth, but my two boys have the double of that (I hope). So what challenges they will have to struggle with in their future is something I do spend some time worrying about. When I grew up we did fear the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapon\">atomic bomb<\/a>, but that was simpler. Either the war started, or it did not, and luckily it did not. Climate changes (for whatever reason), overfishing, pollution of the earth, etc, etc&#8230;all these things are happening, they cannot be avoided, so I feel that I only can cross my fingers and hope for the best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, enough of that, when I started pedaling again a guy passed me riding a bike equipped with an electrical support engine. He went in a ridiculously high speed compared to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cadence_%28cycling%29\">cadence<\/a>. Must admit that I do have some trouble getting the point, why spend so much money on a bike with a crappy engine, why not instead then by a scooter? OR a fancy bike powered by you only, and get the exercise as a bonus???<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/07\/towork_electricbike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/07\/towork_electricbike.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to work today I stopped down by the harbor to take a picture of a oncoming ship. It was the hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Snellius (A 802) of the Netherlands Navy. Then I also noticed a bunch of Lion&#8217;s mane jellyfish below me. 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