Edit – In the original article I said that the sphere of the Deep Challenger was made of titanium. In fact, it’s made of steel. My bad! In trying to explain to friends, colleagues and Twitter followers during recent days what James Cameron may have seen out that softball-sized window of the Deep Challenger submersible . . . → Read More: Cool as a sea cucumber: life (and death) at extraordinary deep sea pressures
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By para_sight, on  March 28th, 2012  3 comments  Adaptations, Bringin' It, Deep Sea 101, Ecology, Expeditions, New Research, Ramblings  Adaptations, Challenger Deep, Deep Challenger, Deep Sea Challenge, Marianas, pressure By para_sight, on March 26th, 2012 36 comments Bringin' It, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion, Tweets, Vessels and Equipment alvin, Challenger Deep, Deep Challenger, Deep Sea Challenge, exploration, hadal, James Cameron, marianas trench, National Geographic, ocean exploration, submersible This post is co-authored by Al Dove and Craig McClain In the 1989 James Cameron sci-fi movie The Abyss, there’s a scene when Ed Harris’ character dons a special environmental suit that allows him to breathe an oxygen-laden liquid. Thus protected from the risks of crushing deep-sea pressures (no air = no voids to collapse), . . . → Read More: James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?
By para_sight, on March 23rd, 2012 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Coral, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Uncategorized bleaching, blennies, Coral, coral bleaching, coral reefs, feeding Exallias brevis male My good colleague Dr. Bruce Carlson just uploaded a very nice short YouTube video about a reef blenny called Exallias brevis. Exallias is fairly special (but by no means unique) not just because it’s quite the looker, but because it is a coral predator. Like many blennies it has a mouth that . . . → Read More: TGIF – Exallias brevis, a very special fish
By para_sight, on March 19th, 2012 10 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Microbes, Ramblings Biodiversity, diversity, fish, parasites Image: Australian Museum Tongue biters have been in my inbox a few times lately. If you’ve managed never to come across these interesting little isopods before, they are members of a wholly parasitic group called the Cymothoidae. For regular readers of Deep Sea News, you can think about them as smaller versions of Bathynomus, which . . . → Read More: No fish is an island
By para_sight, on March 15th, 2012 10 comments Fishing, Industry & Government conservation, Finning, fisheries, shark finning, sharks Shark finning is the capture of sharks expressly for the removal of their fins, which are used to make shark fin soup, a popular status symbol in many Chinese communities. I could understand and accept this practice if the fins were taken from animals that were harvested sustainably and for which markets existed for the . . . → Read More: A San Diego 5th grader is trying to end shark finning, will you help?
By para_sight, on March 8th, 2012 11 comments Expeditions, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Challenger Deep, Deep Sea Challenge, exploration, James Cameron, marianas trench, ocean exploration, Race to the Bottom, Submerisible Folks, it’s on! Some of you may know of the “race to the bottom”, a confluence of several missions aimed at returning humans to the deepest part of the oceans, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, south of Guam. The teams include one sponsored by Richard Branson, one from Sylvia Earle’s sub company DOER, . . . → Read More: The biggest deep sea exploration news in 50 years?
By para_sight, on February 29th, 2012 4 comments Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Fish, Giant Isopod, Megavertebrate, Weird dolphins, flying squid, manta, minke whale, mobula, sailfish, sperm whale, tarpon, tuna, whales Please enjoy this anthology of leaping marine animals. The opportunity for this post only comes up once every four years, so it’s no wonder they’re celebrating! Mobula sp. – devil ray Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus Flying squid, Todarodes pacificus Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares Sailfish, Istiophorus sp. Manta ray, Manta sp. (Most “manta jumps” on google . . . → Read More: In honour of Leap Day
Via Reddit: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Via Reddit: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By para_sight, on February 24th, 2012 One comment Biodiversity, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Georgia Aquarium, Mexico, whale shark To go with the whale shark news roundup this week, I thought I’d post a video from my group’s whale shark research work in Mexico for Georgia Aquarium and Project Domino. This clip is from 2010 and shows an inquisitive whale shark that breaks from their typical surface feeding behaviour to swim down and investigate . . . → Read More: TGIF – curious whale shark
By para_sight, on February 22nd, 2012 3 comments Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Fishing, Megavertebrate Elasmobranchia, whale shark Whale sharks (in Vietnamese: Ca Ong, literally “Sir Fish”), have been in the headlines quite a bit lately. Here’s a roundup: WA WS, OK? A whale shark was seen far from home back in January; it was around Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Now WA is home to probably the best characterised whale shark . . . → Read More: Sir Fish grabbing headlines, but it’s not all good
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