Ancient Origins of the Vampire Squid
Delving into the evolutionary past of the enigmatic deep-sea vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, has long been a pursuit shrouded in mystery. However, recent discoveries, such…
Ocean Nourishment Corporation of Sydney, Australia just got the green light to dump several hundred tons of industrially-produced urea in to the Sulu Sea between…
View More Pissing in the OceanI was just thinking the other day how I wish I had crab claws so I could crush academic opposition. Grab the children and run…
View More Attack of the Crab Man!People once believed “The Road” could not be built on Saba Island until civil engineer Josephus Lambert Hassell took a correspondence course in engineering and organized a crew of locals to start construction in 1938.
View More Saba RoadThank God it’s Friday. Work moves to the back burner, social issues move to the front burner. This week we provide two underwater movies to…
View More TGIF: Anchor Scar- the movieOil tankers drop their anchors on Saba Bank while waiting to approach the port in St Eustatius, and it’s causing serious damage to coral reefs and their associated habitats.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (11/02/07) – Anchor dragged through coralsThis here 8′ tiger shark below circled me and Dr. Juan Armando Sanchez twice as we collected gorgonians in 25m of water in a flat rubble landscape on the Saba Bank interior last week.
View More My friend the Tiger SharkSlow news week but stumbled upon this over my morning cup of joe.
View More Squid CoinIn the words of Rick at MBSL&S So let’s just say you have a couple hundred thousand metric tons of iron filings laying around the…
View More Will Iron Fertilization Work?Many of you have probably seen this already. No doubt, you have said something like This thing has teeth where a beak should be —…
View More Octopod TeethRick at MBSL&S tagged me to produce “my favorite ocean-themed scary movies.” My favorite has to be Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961). Edward Wain…
View More Happy Hallomeme: Ocean-Themed Scary Movies