This week the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer has been dropping its ROV Little Hercules onto various features in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including an old wood/iron wreck, salt domes and man-made seismic trenches. Okeanos has an interesting remote arrangement where folks back on the continent can direct the ROV pilots in real time by . . . → Read More: TGIF – Pretty pictures from Okeanos Explorer
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By para_sight, on  April 27th, 2012  4 comments  Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Deep Sea 101, Expeditions, Fish, New Research, TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Vessels and Equipment  Gulf of Mexico, Little hercules, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, ROV By Dr. M, on April 27th, 2012 9 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Expeditions, New Research, New Species endosymbiotic bacteria, lumber, Squat Lobster, timber, tree, Wood, woodfall, Xylophaga, Xyloplax Act 1: Wood Falling on Water At two miles below the ocean’s surface, I see wooden carcasses, once buoyant, lying listlessly on the abyssal seafloor. They range from small fragments to 2000+ pound behemoths. Ligneous cadavers litter the seafloor, a last resting place for visitors from a faraway and drier place, becoming rare as . . . → Read More: A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep: A Narrative in Five Acts
By Dr. M, on April 2nd, 2012 27 comments Expeditions alvin, Deep Sea Challenge, Funding, James Cameron, submersible, subs This is an invited contribution. A marine biologist, who posts here under the pseudonym, Dour Marine Biologist, offers a counter to the media and even DSN hype on Cameron’s dive. I find these points below worth consideration and dialogue. I want to hear your comments below. Since James Cameron’s record-breaking dive on March 26th the media . . . → Read More: Shouldn’t We Be More Skeptical of the DeepChallenger Dive?
By para_sight, on March 31st, 2012 14 comments Expeditions, New Research, Oil Spills, Vessels and Equipment exploration, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer This is a time sensitive post. By the time some find it, there may be nothing showing, but right now at 1155hrs EDSL, there’s a great feed from the Little Hercules ROV at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, looking at some deep corals See more here Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}This is a time . . . → Read More: Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico
By Dr Bik, on March 28th, 2012 One comment Expeditions Challenger Deep, Deepsea Challenge, DNA, James Cameron, Mariana Trench, metagenomics, Microbes, Pacific Ocean James Cameron’s descent to the Challenger Deep – we have adventure, intrigue, and a great story for the media. But we also have an amazing opportunity for SCIENCE! Despite a faulty hydraulics hampering sample collections, the Deepsea Challenger managed to grab half a sediment core – a cupful of muddy, watery ooze from the deepest . . . → Read More: Challenger Deep: What we can learn from a single, half core of mud
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 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
[View the story "A Timeline of Cameron's Dive & the Power of Twitter" on Storify] Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}[View the story "A Timeline of Cameron's Dive & the Power of Twitter" on Storify] Broadcast Spawn!Tweet 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?
#gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Broadcast Spawn!Tweet In a historic solo dive to the bottom of the world, famed filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron reached the “Challenger Deep,” the lowest part of the ocean, located in the Mariana Trench, on Monday, March 26, at 7:52 a.m. local time (Sunday, March 25, 5:52 p.m. Eastern Time). The depth was recorded at . . . → Read More: Cameron Reaches the Challenger Deep
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