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ELECTRICITY systems, solar generation, battery storage, data collection and analysis are among a range of subjects to be studied by Patterson River Secondary College Year 10 students next year. The school library will also be upgraded to become an “energy laboratory”, where the students will study energy data measured by sensors. “This initiative will help educate the next generation of energy professionals and create pathways for students into careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency and new energy technologies,” Energy, Environment and Climate Change Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said. She said the state government will work closely with the school
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at Koonya beach, and was spotted drifting about 500 metres offshore. A 32-year-old Frankston man was rescued off Mornington beach last month after attempting to swim across to St Kilda to attend a concert. Police said the fully-clothed man would certainly not have made the trip safely. In May 2012, a 26-year-old man drowned while swimming with friends at Frankston beach. His blood alcohol content was more than six times the legal limit for driving.
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account for 72 per cent of all drowning victims this year A Taiwanese man in his 20s drowned earlier this year at Gunnammata when he was swimming outside the flags and got caught in a rip. Lifesavers pulled the man unconscious from the water and he could not be revived. Three young men rescued a drowning man at Blairgowrie last year after they heard him crying out for help. The Hampton Park man had got into trouble while swimming
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Beware when bluebottles sail to shore VISITORS to Frankston and the peninsula’s bay and ocean beaches may have noticed the prevalence of bluebottle jellyfish. The common bluebottle, Physalia utriculus, is smaller and less venomous than its Atlantic cousin Physalia physalis – or Portuguese man o’war – but it can still produce a painful sting. While they may look like a single marine creature they are actually colonial organisms known as siphonophores, with separate animals specialised for food capture, digestion, reproduction, and one that makes up the gas-filled float. The animals cannot function alone and the whole can only survive as a colony. The floats can grow up to 150mm long and tentacles to more than a metre. An intriguing feature is that half the colonies have floats aligned at 45 degrees to the right of the wind and half at 45 degrees to the left. It is surmised that this anatomical difference aids the survival of the species by ensuring only half of the colonies will face being marooned along the coast in the prevailing wind. The animals capture fish and small marine creatures by dragging their tentacles through the water and stinging and killing their prey. The powerful stinging cells, called nematocysts, line the tentacles and inject venomous neuro and muscle toxins, immobilising and killing their prey with rapid efficiency. When swimming or walking near the shoreline keep an eye out for them but don’t get too close. The sting is quite painful but it generally subsides in about half an hour. If stung, Surf Life Saving Australia recommends carefully removing any remaining tentacles and soaking the area in hot water or covering with ice packs. Do not scratch or rub the sting site. Often accompanying each armada are other floating marine creatures, such as by-the-wind-sailor, velella velella, porpita sailors, porpita porpita, and other species of blue drifting invertebrates. George Russell
Washed up: A bluebottle on Mt Martha beach. They are becoming common all over bay and ocean beaches. Picture: George Russell