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Appropriate attire for a New Year's Day swim in Vancouver

Rob Beschizza at 9:10 am • •

REUTERS/Ben Nelms

A man, wearing a "goat mask", runs into the English Bay during the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Lost fur seal makes it to Hawaii —

Audrey McAvoy writes: A seal that would normally live in waters around the Aleutian Islands and California has shown up thousands of miles away on a beach in Hawaii, officials said Wednesday. Little fella needs a theme song, if you ask me. [AP] — Rob •

Swim goggles made from fish scales

Xeni Jardin at 2:24 pm • •

Neat post about an experimental plastic substitute made from fish scales over at Brian Lam's ocean-themed blog Scuttlefish. So far art student Erik de Laurens "has made not only goggles, but eye-glass frames, drinking cups, and a wooden table with a fish scale inlay" from fish scales.