Picture copyright C. Fisher/Ridge2000 Brisingids look like crinoids, but they are actually sea stars, just kind of turned over. this particular beauty is Freyella sp.…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture: March of the BrisingidsMonth: February 2008
TGIF: Mermaid Suit
Do you ever get bored when you’re scuba diving on a Caribbean shipwreck, and wish you had a Mermaid guide to show you around? Thanks…
View More TGIF: Mermaid SuitChina builds new manned submersible
How do you say “sea dragon” in Mandarin? China is planning an ocean exploration program on par with their space endeavours, including plans to build a sub-sea base station and a manned submersible capable of diving to 7000m by 2010.
View More China builds new manned submersibleSometimes Sea Monsters Are Real
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. “The Monster”, which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the…
View More Sometimes Sea Monsters Are RealSaving Really Big Ships
At Wired you can read about the saving of the 14-deck, 55,000 ton Cougar Ace carrying 4,700 new Mazdas. As water was being replaced in…
View More Saving Really Big ShipsShark Attacks Increase…
…maybe as retaliation for killing them off. The last estimate of 71 in 2007 compared to 63 in 2006, continues a four year increase. One…
View More Shark Attacks Increase…Sexual refuge for krill in the abyss?
You are a giant swarm of Antarctic krill migrating daily from sunlit surface waters down to the 4500m in the abyss. Some portion of your…
View More Sexual refuge for krill in the abyss?CORAL: Conservation Never Looked So Good!
Thanks to Rick MacPherson, Program Director for the Coral Reef Alliance (and fin-tastic blogger!), for this shirt. We met a few weeks ago at the…
View More CORAL: Conservation Never Looked So Good!The Human Impact on Marine Systems
Fig. 1 from Halpern et al. Global map (A) of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types. (Insets) Highly impacted regions in the Eastern…
View More The Human Impact on Marine SystemsJust One Thing Challenge #5
So how did going organic affect your pocketbook? I imagine for many of you it didn’t add as much as you thought it would. This…
View More Just One Thing Challenge #5