Triton Submersibles LLC is marketing the Triton 1000, a two passenger “yacht based submersible” depth rated to 1000 feet. The first was delivered in 2007. The catamaran configuration gives it “extraordinary surface stability” for the low low price of 1.69 million dollars. One question though, Triton, how am I supposed to collect samples with . . . → Read More: Toys for Yachts
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By Peter Etnoyer, on  July 4th, 2009  Leave a comment  Gadgets & Gear, Vessels and Equipment  Triton 1000, US Submersibles By Peter Etnoyer, on June 30th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Scientist! bottom trawling, Callum Roberts Over the years, I’ve marveled at the ways and means of different scientists. Some have a career that’s focused like a laser beam, boring through the impenetrable mysteries of oceanography or evolution. Others paint with a broad brush on a large canvas, dabble in things of interest, or follow a trail to its natural conclusion, . . . → Read More: Once upon a time, the ocean was blue
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 29th, 2009 One comment Conservation & Environment Bill Hogarth, International Whaling Commission, IWC, whaling Folks must have been shocked last week to hear outgoing whaling Commissioner Dr. Bill Hogarth say he was convinced “there would be less whales killed if we didn’t have a moratorium,” in reference to the unregulated nature of Japanese scientific whaling. Bureaucratic insights like these are hard to reconcile, but times they are a-changing. The . . . → Read More: Reality Check on Whaling, and Its Opposition
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 26th, 2009 One comment Organisms, Pictures and Movies basketstar, echinoderm Basketstars are enigmatic denizens of the deep. They are broadly distributed in the world’s oceans from the Artic to the Antarctic, occurring as shallow as the shallow subtidal. They can grow to 2-3 feet across, often found associated with deep-sea coral, like this Gorgonocephalus sp. above. Basketstars are suspension feeders, so their feeding mode . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Basket star
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 25th, 2009 Leave a comment Coral, Expeditions, Seamount CenSeam, Di Tracey, Graveyard, NIWA Its summertime folks, and it seems like everyone is either heading out to sea, or returning from a recent expedition. If not that, its a conference. Craig reported last week from Evolution 2009, and Kevin’s off to a meeting for the Biogeography of Chemosythetic Ecosystems (ChEss) in Japan. I’m still stuck here in Texas writing . . . → Read More: Ready for another expedition?
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 23rd, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, Scientist! British Columbia, Finding Coral Expedition, Nuytco Research facility PhD student Michael Reuscher has been guest posting from the RV Cape Flattery aboard the Finding Coral Expedition, sponsored by the Living Ocean Society in British Colombia, Canada. He summarizes the cruise accomplishments, and bids farewell below. On behalf of Deep Sea News, let me say this was a job well done. Congratulations, team. This . . . → Read More: Finding Coral sails into the sunset
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 21st, 2009 4 comments Scientist!, Social Sciences Bob Ballard, inner space, sylvia earle Dr. Sylvia Earle presents Dr. Bob Ballard with a Lifetime Achievement Award Inner Space Commander-in-Chief Dr. Robert D. Ballard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation at their annual dinner on June 9th in Washington, DC. Have you ever seen two more beautiful people? Drs. Earle and Ballard take our nation’s . . . → Read More: Ballard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 19th, 2009 One comment Coral, Expeditions, Pictures and Movies Finding Coral Expedition, Greg Workman, Primnoa, Sheila McKenna Greg Workman reports in today’s dispatch “A Great Day at the Office” that after a few days searching, the Finding Coral Expedition has … found coral. Hooray! Workman and his dive buddy Sheila McKenna discovered a garden of huge Primnoa sp. gorgonians in Juan Perez Sound. He relates the story of their descent, below . . . → Read More: Friday deep-sea picture: Deepworkers find Primnoa
Michael Reuscher is a PhD student at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and a freshly minted submersible pilot engaged in the Finding Corals Expedition. He has been reporting since June 5, sends this from the RV Cape Flattery, currently stationed off the coast of British Columbia. Still life at 400 meters I am sitting . . . → Read More: RV Cape Flattery Report – June 16, 2009
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