Apparently Dr. Miriam and I are not the only people who like to merge I love of the oceans and Firefly. –Twitter / leeners81: Serenity…
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The Nautical Roots of Popular Tattoos
Collectors Weekly has a nice write up about origins of tattoos among sailors. Body art was particularly well-suited to the transient and dangerous nature of…
View More The Nautical Roots of Popular TattoosDSN’s Must Have Whip: The Aquaman Kia Rio
As soon as dollars start falling from the sky I will be ordering one of these for everyone in the DSN superteam. The Aquaman Rio…
View More DSN’s Must Have Whip: The Aquaman Kia RioNow That’s Captain Crunch
Continuing with the them of reimagining characters of childhood. Love it but not quite sure I am ready for that peanut butter goodness now.…
View More Now That’s Captain CrunchA More Badass Popeye
I probably would have paid more attention to Popeye as kid if he had looked like this. Now I need to go eat some spinach…
View More A More Badass PopeyeGiant Pacific Octopus!
The largest octopus is the Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini. According to data from a 1987 Masters Thesis from J.A. Cosgrove, the Pacific Giant Ocotopus can…
View More Giant Pacific Octopus!Apparently hell is populated by squid.
As I mentioned in our Firefly post, I’ll be covering San Diego Comic Con for Deep Sea News. I’ll actually be attending the convention tomorrow,…
View More Apparently hell is populated by squid.Making The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American Culture
The following post is write up of the talk I delivered last week at Capitol Hill Ocean Week When we see images like the above…
View More Making The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American CultureHoff Crab + Tattoo = Awesomsauce
Remember the Hoff Crab? You bet your bippy you do. You can thank Nicolai Roterman for that. Nicolai, a hydrothermal vent biologist and a member…
View More Hoff Crab + Tattoo = AwesomsauceMust Own a Poster of This
xkcd yesterday brought one of the spectacular pieces of illustration ever seen on the internet, Lakes and Oceans. This glorious piece of art features depths…
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