Weather, O’ Weather…you are my fair and fickle lover. On day 4, we sailed on from Davidson to Patton Escarpment, but a 25+ knot wind…
View More Seamounts 2007, Day 4-7Month: June 2007
Deep Coral Gardens
The Alvin submersible dives on the New England Seamount chain found plentiful coral colonys of whip coral, parasol coral, and beautiful spiraling Iridogorgia. These coral…
View More Deep Coral GardensEel Garden
The Crevices at 708 meters (2,323 feet) of a hydrothermal vent site are occupied by thriving aggregations of cutthroat (synaphobranchid) eels. These eels, which have…
View More Eel GardenPick Me to Go To Mars!
This map depicts a hypothetical Mars with oceans. The view could represent a stage of terraforming (not an early Mars, since the ocean areas do…
View More Pick Me to Go To Mars!Friday Deep-Sea Picture (06/22/07)
I am out to sea this week exploring deep-sea life on seamounts. A cruise in 2004 to the San Juan yielded this photo. Brisingid and…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (06/22/07)Deep-Sea Wine Tastes Better
So any wine is good, great wine is better, and great wine from the murky depths is the best.. Great wine aged on the ocean…
View More Deep-Sea Wine Tastes BetterSeamounts 2007, Day 2-3
Our second day at sea was brought to close on much calmer seas. We again dove on Pioneer Seamount, the northernmost station during our cruise…
View More Seamounts 2007, Day 2-3It Doesn’t Matter If I Kill Another Species…
if I look pretty. Whenever I travel, inevitably I come across a shop or two selling red coral jewelry. I know what the red coral…
View More It Doesn’t Matter If I Kill Another Species…It Doesn't Matter If I Kill Another Species…
if I look pretty. Whenever I travel, inevitably I come across a shop or two selling red coral jewelry. I know what the red coral…
View More It Doesn't Matter If I Kill Another Species…UK’s ISIS Explores Underwater “Grand Canyon” Off Portugal
Bathymetric image of the Nazare Canyon off the coast of Portugal. Photo courtesy of the BBC. The BBC has released a short news piece on…
View More UK’s ISIS Explores Underwater “Grand Canyon” Off Portugal