Lunoblog

Although stated in this title, I am not to enumerate the 10 reasons as I believe your imagination is fertile enough to come up with answers. But as I now have your attention, I shall share a few thoughts with you on how we, lunosapiens feel about the great white shark. Note that I put shark after great white, as “Great White” is a hollywood term that somewhat helped in bringing this animal to the endangered specie list appendix II. Peter Benchley if you only knew what kind of impact you were to create when you wrote Jaws…

Both Ted and I have had the chance to see these absolutely beautiful animals in the wild while diving. Ted was in Australia, I was in Mexico. Although we have a different appreciation of the experience, we come to the same conclusion, these apex predators are absolutely perfect, just watching them evolve underwater is a radical  course on hydrodynamics. I always thought perfection did not exist until I saw that girthy 17 feet long great white shark female swimming effortlessly around  my low tech cage. A monkey underwater? is probably what she was thinking as I was fighting my mind not to sing the two most effective music notes ever played in a movie score.  For a second I felt like she was observing me, she was at the zoo I was in the cage. She came closer and closer to the cage where I finally had the courage to touch her underbelly as she made a close “flyby”.  She disappeared by a few quick graceful tail movement in the blue water, exactly the way she had appeared, in full stealth mode.

Sharks are wild animals and can be extremely dangerous if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time but they are far from being this monstrous aggressive animal portrayed in over-shown-blood-bath-feeding-frenzy footage on sensational tv shows. 100 millions sharks killed a year by humans versus maybe 10 lethal shark attacks on humans annually. Who do you think of the two should fear the other?

For shark preservation and ocean conservation check out :

ORCA (Ocean Research & Conservation)

Oceana Save The Shark

Sharks Protection & Preservation

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“What happened you guys!?” is a quote from Southpark character Eric Cartman when he opened up the  Lunocet website this morning. Change is inevitable isn’t it? Especially after listening to an interview with GM vice chairman Bob Lutz who do not subscribe to the global warming theory but also happens to be the project manager of the chevy Volt fully electric car. Humm…let me think about that for a sec. As Stephen Colbert mentioned you can still plug in your chevy electric car for a charge into your Hummer cigarette lighter if you do not believe in global warming.

On the other hand our beloved Lunocet has zero emission and at times zero gravity. So what’s with the design change? Instead of two sections for the trailing edge ,we now have one single piece of silicone rubber, we also increased the durometer to have a more rigid piece which translates into more power.

The newly designed “center jet” (the piece that links the footplates and the silicone trailing edge) lower the footplates resistance and makes for better hydrodynamics. Foot pockets now come closer to the end of the toe plate allowing a better power transfer. Faster,better,stronger.

There are more tricks to it than this but I feel some mystery shall remain until we release the new video.

Stay tuned for more!

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We are pleased to announce a partnership with ORCA and DR. Edie Widder. We are at the time being working on bringing to market a special edition ORCA Lunocet where part of the profit will be directly given to ORCA, further collaboration of this kind will flourish as the lunosapien community grows.

“Without healthy oceans we cannot have a healthy planet, but with proper guidance from the scientific community and support from the public we can have both.”-Dr Edie Widder

Check out the ORCA website for more info.