A big yellow section from a floatation platform was found off Miami yesterday. Ryan Haines from the U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami is trying to locate the owners. Email us here at DSN (deepseanews@gmail.com) if this is your lost gear. Also in the DSN lost and found box are 4 empty bottles of beer, a red . . . → Read More: Does This Belong To You?
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By Dr. M, on  October 12th, 2011  4 comments  Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, Life At Sea, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment  lost and found Um, if DSN started a kickstarter for this, would you guys chip in so we can make this our official headquarters?? Seriously though, the builder should consider donating the ship to a public park and install as a playground for kids to use as much imagination plundering the high seas with their merry crew, as . . . → Read More: Want a pirate ship? For only $10K you can have a hand-built one!
By para_sight, on October 10th, 2011 One comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Megavertebrate, Vessels and Equipment, Weird great white sharks, Mir, salvage, sharks, submarine, submersible, treasure On Friday I had cause to meet with a gent called Marco Flagg and it turned into one of the more interesting chats I’ve had in a long time. Marco is the chief engineer of a company called Desert Star that makes a range of navigation and tracking products, one of which we’ve been using . . . → Read More: Of great whites and great depths
By RickMac, on September 28th, 2011 Leave a comment Climate Change, Gadgets & Gear, New Research, Scientist!, Uncategorized, Vessels and Equipment AWESOME!, Remote sensing, satellite data Composite map of the first two and a half weeks of salinity data since Aquarius satellite became operational on August 25 (click to embiggen). Map reflects ~150km resolution and 1 week revisit time. © 2011, NASA Aquarius Project Apologies if I lost any of you post-Gen X readers with that Muppet Show homage title. But . . . → Read More: SALT FROM SPAAAAACE!
By Dr. M, on September 16th, 2011 One comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Life At Sea, Vessels and Equipment Ray: A Life Underwater from Danny Cooke. “A rogue with an eye for salvage – and the ladies – Ray: A Life Underwater is an affectionate portrait of one man’s deep sea diving career, told through his extraordinary collection of marine artefacts. Like a modern-day pirate, 75-year-old Ray Ives has been scouring the seabed for . . . → Read More: TGIF: Ray, A Life Underwater
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 16th, 2011 2 comments Life At Sea, Vessels and Equipment 9/11, evacuation, mariners, New York, rescue, sailors, seafarers Eric Wolff alerted me to this moving documentary on the 500,000 people evacuated by boat from Manhattan on 9/11. From Christopher Mims: In nine hours, boats streaming in from all over the Northeast evacuated 500,000 people trapped on Manhattan Island by the complete shutdown of all trains and bridges in the wake of the fall . . . → Read More: 9/11: Largest ever evacuation by boat in history
By para_sight, on September 14th, 2011 3 comments Conferences, Ecology, Education, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, Fish, Life At Sea, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Aquarius, AZA, Georgia Aquarium, georgia tech, NURC, Reefbase, UNCW The Association of Zoos and Aquariums is holding its annual conference in Atlanta this week (Twitter #AZA2011) and at tonights iceabreaker event at Georgia Aquarium, we’re going to try a live cross to the Aquarius ReefBase habitat off the Florida Keys. ReefBase, which is a NURC and UNCW initiative, is the only underwater lab in . . . → Read More: ReefBase broadcast tonight!
Sealander – Schwimmcaravan – Grenzenlos mobil from SEALANDER – Der Schwimmcaravan on Vimeo. The price tag of $20,000 is not making me shy away from the Sealander, a camper/boat transformer. Now if it would transform into a robot and destroy evil. Through its integrated waterproof chassis can be Sealander without trailers and slipway just launched. Among . . . → Read More: Camper? Boat? Nah I’ll take both!
By Dr. M, on July 26th, 2011 Leave a comment Gadgets & Gear, Vessels and Equipment Bruce Jones, James Cameron, Richard Branson, Triton, Virgin Oceanic, X Prize Nice write up at the Atlantic about the X Prize for visiting the Challenger Deep. The story covers Richard Branson’s Virgin Oceanic, James Cameron’s Deep Challenge Team, and Bruce Jone’s Triton Submarines. Branson‘s, Cameron‘s, and Jone‘s efforts have been covered here at DSN. Now, more than 50 years later, humans are nearly ready to return to Challenger Deep. . . . → Read More: Racing to the Bottom: Exploring the Deepest Point on Earth
By Kevin Zelnio, on July 21st, 2011 20 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment Florida, Harbor Branch, HBOI, Johnson Sea Link, Lorax, oceanography, Oil Spill, Public, Research, Science Communication, Scott Olson, Space Shuttle, submersible Me inside the Johnson Sea Link (2004). Today, Scott Olson published an editorial at TCPalm, a local news site for Palm Beach area on some very deep misgivings that all of us in deep-sea biologist have regarding the state of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and its assets – the Johnson Sea Link submersibles. It was . . . → Read More: The Ship, The Sub, The Shuttle – We Should Blame Ourselves
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