Scubacraft 3 in submersible mode Boat…check. Submarine…check. Scuba platform…check. Submarine , boat, and dive platform…check. The Scubacraft 3 and 6 are the newest ultimate watercraft. Price tag? Well, that is not important right now. What is important is that this is on Dr. M’s Christmas wishlist. The SC’s are advanced twin-tunnel composite hull and deliver . . . → Read More: Submersible or Boat? Both!
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By Dr. M, on  October 29th, 2009  Leave a comment  Vessels and Equipment  boats, Diving, hull, jet drive, scuba, submarine, underwater comms, watercraft By Dr. M, on September 10th, 2009 4 comments Art, Pictures and Movies, Vessels and Equipment Art, Balaenoptera, Blue Whale, illustration, Jim Moore, steampunk, submarine Jim Moore is a bay area concept artist working in the games industry. I became familiar with is artwork when Jim won the Scion Artist Intersection Contest grand prize at Kongregate. He won with the his amazing illustration Whale Sub (visit link for full resolution image). Being both a fan of steampunk art and nautical . . . → Read More: Whale Sub
By Dr. M, on July 29th, 2009 2 comments Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment AUV, DARPA, Defense Department, drone, Electric Boat, Irregular Warfare Office, Navy, Sea Stalker, Soviet, submarine, supercavitation, Underwater Express The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which commissions research for the Defense Department, gave Electric Boat a truckload of money in 2006 to design a small submarine to transport people and cargo at 100 knots (about 115 miles an hour). The program name…Underwater Express. Not the most imaginative name. I would have went with Rapid . . . → Read More: The New Navy Has Both Faster and Unmanned Subs
By Dr. M, on July 7th, 2009 Leave a comment Education, Gadgets & Gear, Vessels and Equipment competition, deep sea, Deep Submergence, Education, Marine Advanced Technology Eductation, remote operated vehicle, submarine MATE International Competition ROV 2009. A student built ROV carrying out a “rescue mission” on a troubled submarine. Photo courtesy of VideoRay / Steve Van Meter. The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s International Student ROV Competition just occurred in Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. This is the competition for those who already won in 16 regional . . . → Read More: MATE Center’s International Student ROV Competition
By Dr. M, on May 31st, 2009 Leave a comment Pictures and Movies, Vessels and Equipment Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Johnson Sea Link, submarine, submersible Observations from the JSL . . . → Read More: Video of and from the JSL
By Dr. M, on May 31st, 2009 One comment Uncategorized, Vessels and Equipment Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Johnson Sea Link, submarine, submersible from Eclectic Echoes… The JSLs are unique vehicles for deep sea exploration with their distinctive full transparent acrylic sphere for the pilot and scientist. The sad thing is these are still highly productive vehicles (two of the youngest in the fleet) and there are no similar subs out there, in fact there are only about . . . → Read More: More On the JSL
By Dr. M, on May 31st, 2009 2 comments Expeditions, Giant Isopod, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment alvin, deep sea, exploration, Giant Isopod, Harbor Branch Ocenaographic Institution, Johnson Sea Link, JSL, submarine, submersible My first submersible dive happened off Rum Cay in the Bahamas in the JSL. Despite my large size, I do not remember feeling cramped inside the soda can-sized sub. The entire time I pressed my face against a 15-centimeter porthole, my cheek against the cool glass and eyes focused on the three meters of illuminated . . . → Read More: JSL and Giant Isopods
By Dr. M, on May 7th, 2009 2 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Social Sciences, Vessels and Equipment Aquarium, Artificial Owl, military base, Navy, Russia, Sea-Arama, secret base, submarine, Ukraine, underground lair I just discovered this great blog that features abandoned man-made creations. Each post features a set of pictures and some history on the structure. By far the coolest post so far, is on the abandoned secret Russian underground submarine base in the Ukraine. There is nothing cooler than a secret underground lair where you . . . → Read More: Artificial Owl
By Dr. M, on May 7th, 2009 2 comments Expeditions, Vessels and Equipment AUV, Challenger Deep, Nereus, Pacific Ocean, robot, ROV, submarine, Transformer, WHOI, Wood's Hole From BBC News… If successful, Nereus will be the first autonomous vehicle to visit the 11,000m (36,089ft) Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean. Only two other vehicles have ever visited the spot before, both of them human operated. The $5m submarine will make the attempt in late May or early June after a series . . . → Read More: Transformers Into the Deep
By Peter Etnoyer, on April 6th, 2009 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Coral, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Vessels and Equipment deep sea, deep-sea coral, gerardia, gold coral, Honduras, Karl Stanley, stanley submarines, submarine Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m depth in Hawaii. Both are zoantharian or “zoanthid corals” that excrete a strong proteinaceous axis. The branches of these corals suggest gold coral colonies can be as old 2700 years, . . . → Read More: World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video
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