Satellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experiment
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By , on October 19th, 2012 18 comments   Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government   , , , , , , ,  

News of an rogue iron-dumping experiment off British Columbia, Canada, broke in the Guardian on Monday, and was followed up by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and io9. Dr. M explained why this was appalling news, and ever since we’ve been having a vigorous discussion in the secret Deep Sea News lair on . . . → Read More: Satellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experiment

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Here We Go Again With Dumping Iron Into the Ocean
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By , on October 15th, 2012 38 comments   Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government   , , , , , , , ,  

The Planktos Incident continues. Just when I thought it had died. Russ George, former head of the defunct Planktos, has decided to, despite the scientific community asking for a more cautious and sensible approach and international moratoriums, dump 100 tons of iron into the ocean. In discussing the DSN core value of Awareness Through Scrutiny, . . . → Read More: Here We Go Again With Dumping Iron Into the Ocean

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The Deep Sea Is Chimaera Country
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By , on March 20th, 2010 2 comments   Fish, Pictures and Movies   , , , ,  

Beautiful, high-quality footage of Chimaeras captured by Neptune Canada. Story here.

Six Gill to Shrimp: We’re Having Pig Tonight!
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By , on February 28th, 2010 5 comments   Adaptations, New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , ,  

Octopus Just Trying to Catch Some Zzz’s
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By , on January 27th, 2010 5 comments   Cephalopods, Pictures and Movies   , , , , , ,  

So here I was, just minding my own business under this rock-type thing and some freakish looking thing from Poseidon-knows-where started kicking up dirt and messing with me! From NeptuneCanada’s youtube account: “2-September-2009: As ROPOS touches down on the sediment next to the drillhead, an octopus watches warily from its lair at Ocean Drilling Platform . . . → Read More: Octopus Just Trying to Catch Some Zzz’s

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Ghost Ships
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By , on October 29th, 2009 One comment   Carnivals & Link Love, Social Sciences   , , , , , , , , , ,  

The Baychimo, image from Wikimedia Commons Top Tenz as a list of 12 ghost ships. Just kidding, it is just ten. My favorite… One of the most amazing cases of a real-life ghost ship concerns the Baychimo, a cargo steamer that was abandoned and left to drift the seas near Alaska for nearly forty years. . . . → Read More: Ghost Ships

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Finding Coral Expedition Underway
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By , on June 10th, 2009 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, New Research   , ,  

Canada’s Living Oceans Society (LOS) is helping to usher in a new era in “pro-active ocean exploration”, wherein a marine non-governmental organization (MaNGO) can mount an deep ocean expedition nearly as easily as the federal government. Make no mistake, this is important. It’s a sea-change in the way exploration is done. Here, the goal is . . . → Read More: Finding Coral Expedition Underway

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Meet the new DSN field correspondent
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By , on June 4th, 2009 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Vessels and Equipment   , , , ,  

I’d like to introduce my friend and colleague Michael Reuscher, he’s a first year PhD student in the Biodiversity and Conservation Laboratory of Dr. Tom Shirley here at Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. Michael is a freshly minted Deep Worker submersible pilot, as is Tom. Michael’s specialty is deep-sea polychaetes from . . . → Read More: Meet the new DSN field correspondent

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Enormous sea turtle lays 95 eggs after ocean race
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By , on April 29th, 2009 4 comments   Conservation & Environment, Scientist!   , , , , , , , , , ,  

© Jean-Yves Georges – Great Turtle Race competitor “Wawa Bear” Pearl Jam’s “Backspacer” is declared the victor in the Great Turtle Race, the first leatherback sea turtle to arrive in the Caribbean Sea from foraging grounds off Nova Scotia, Canada. The largest turtle in the race, Wawa Bear (pictured), was not the first place . . . → Read More: Enormous sea turtle lays 95 eggs after ocean race

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Deep-diving adaptations of Leatherback turtles
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By , on April 21st, 2009 7 comments   Adaptations, Organisms   , , , , , , , ,  

An article by Bryan Wallace for Deep Sea News. The deep-sea is as far removed from atmospheric oxygen as anyplace on Earth, but a select few air breathers are undeterred. (No, I’m not referring to intrepid deep-sea human researchers.) These extraordinary critters frequently venture into the deep-sea, despite their vital link to air the above . . . → Read More: Deep-diving adaptations of Leatherback turtles

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