Ye landlubbers may think yer sage from pirate treachery by hiding on yer dry shores, but ye be WRONG! Many a crusty ship urchin floats…
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Screw you pirates! Scientists study the Great Whirl anyway.
AAAR! Today is Talk like a Pirate Day. So swill some grog and enjoy this beauty of a post on physical oceanography and piracy in…
View More Screw you pirates! Scientists study the Great Whirl anyway.On the rocks, the bartender’s guide to sea ice
I’ve just moved from Alaska to Seattle, driving over 4000 miles and what felt like almost every major highway in Alaska in a last ditch…
View More On the rocks, the bartender’s guide to sea iceThe perfect drink for the Physical Oceanographer
One might think that the perfect drink for a physical oceanographer might be the Tidal Wave, Sea Breeze or even the Deep Sea Martini. But it…
View More The perfect drink for the Physical OceanographerRevisiting the Ocean Cleanup, a plan to remove plastic from the oceans
UPDATE: The Ocean Cleanup released a feasibility study in June 2014 that attempted to address many of the concerns we had below. You can read…
View More Revisiting the Ocean Cleanup, a plan to remove plastic from the oceansMixology of Water Masses
This post originally appeared on DSN exactly one year ago. In honor of cocktail week, I am reposting it again here for your reading pleasure.…
View More Mixology of Water MassesOceanography for Everyone – The OpenCTD
The CTD is an amazing instrument that has allowed oceanographers to explore the ocean interior. By measuring only three variables: conductivity, temperature and pressure; scientists…
View More Oceanography for Everyone – The OpenCTDRecipe for a Sharknado
While we here at Deep Sea News utterly disliked the Discovery Channel fiction-presented-as-fact documentary “Megalodon” we couldn’t help but love SyFy’s “fiction-presented-as-campy-AWESOME” that was Sharknado.…
View More Recipe for a SharknadoTides eat British Teenager’s Car
Every day, without fail, the tides go in and out. While some people fail to understand why they rise and fall, others just completely forget that…
View More Tides eat British Teenager’s CarWanna throw a phytoplankton party? Then call in turbulence to help round up your buddies!
Typically turbulence mixes seawater and the things in it. Turbulence takes isolated patches of increased salt, heat, sediment, even plankton, and spreads them out so…
View More Wanna throw a phytoplankton party? Then call in turbulence to help round up your buddies!