#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } As soon as dollars start falling from the sky I will be ordering one of these for everyone in the DSN superteam. The . . . → Read More: DSN’s Must Have Whip: The Aquaman Kia Rio
Continuing with the them of reimagining characters of childhood. Love it but not quite sure I am ready for that peanut butter goodness now. Make sure you look at the rest of the series as well. Also love the Frosted Flakes Capn – Cereal series on the Behance Network. . . . → Read More: Now That’s Captain Crunch
By Dr. M, on  October 18th, 2012 Art, Pictures and Movies I probably would have paid more attention to Popeye as kid if he had looked like this. Now I need to go eat some spinach and work on my forearms. Popeye | The High Definite.
The Mortal Sea, by University of New Hampshire maritime environmental history professor Jeff Bolster, seems to be an interesting book up many of our readers’ alley! I haven’t read it, but you can find out more about it at its Amazon page (priced for the general consumer!) and the interesting descriptive video below from UNH . . . → Read More: The Mortal Sea
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day – but as you may know, here at Deep Sea News we are partial to a bit of shantying. (Enthusiasm being far more important than tunefulness.) So instead of talking like a pirate, I made a playlist with some of my favorite sea music. SING with me, people, . . . → Read More: Don’t talk like a pirate – SING like one
It’s Saturday, 105 degrees in San Diego, I’m 100 yards from the beach, and I am in front of my computer typing away. OH THE GLAMOUR. Fortunately both you and I can live vicariously through this fine music video from the marine scientists working out of the Gump Station on the French Polynesian island of . . . → Read More: Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN
The largest octopus is the Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini. According to data from a 1987 Masters Thesis from J.A. Cosgrove, the Pacific Giant Ocotopus can reach a weight of over 150 pounds (>70kg). Our friend Jason Bradley, underwater photographer extraordinaire and honorary DSN photographer (post, post, post, post) captured this amazing shot at . . . → Read More: Giant Pacific Octopus!
As I mentioned in our Firefly post, I’ll be covering San Diego Comic Con for Deep Sea News. I’ll actually be attending the convention tomorrow, but here’s a little preview of some cephalopodic comic goodness, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. Over on my Google+, Danna Staaf has the best reaction: “Maybe it’s a the plaintive . . . → Read More: Apparently hell is populated by squid.
By Dr. M, on  June 27th, 2012 Social Sciences 2008 Presidential election results by county. Blue denotes majority Democratic votes and Red Republican. Map from New York Times. Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a population of 16,000 of which around 60% are African American. The median households and per . . . → Read More: How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
By Dr. M, on  June 19th, 2012 Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, Life At Sea, Scientist!, Social Sciences, Vessels and Equipment Challenger Deep, Don Walsh, marianas trench, submersible, Trieste, US Navy Bathyscaphe Trieste I asked, “What were the events that lead to you to dive the Marianas Trench?” Don Walsh one of two men to first visit the deepest point of the world’s ocean and one of only three to succeed at this responded quickly. “I found myself there for all the wrong reasons.” Don Walsh . . . → Read More: I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep
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