I swear, I don’t want to be a nay-saying science crankypants. I want to dream big and have my own submarine and frolic on the…
View More SeaOrbiter: amazing breakthrough or cool-looking boondoggle?Category: Gadgets & Gear
I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep
I asked, “What were the events that lead to you to dive the Marianas Trench?” Don Walsh one of two men to first visit the…
View More I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger DeepFishy phone home
If you’re at all interested in charismatic megafauna (it’s OK, embrace the shame), then you’ve probably heard of satellite tagging before. This is the idea…
View More Fishy phone homeMicrobiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroaches
California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined…
View More Microbiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroachesTGIF – Pretty pictures from Okeanos Explorer
This week the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer has been dropping its ROV Little Hercules onto various features in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including an…
View More TGIF – Pretty pictures from Okeanos ExplorerOkeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico
This is a time sensitive post. By the time some find it, there may be nothing showing, but right now at 1155hrs EDSL, there’s a…
View More Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of MexicoJames Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?
On May 20th, 2010–one month to the day after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig (under lease by British Petroleum) exploded and caught fire in the…
View More James Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?
This post is co-authored by Al Dove and Craig McClain In the 1989 James Cameron sci-fi movie The Abyss, there’s a scene when Ed Harris’…
View More James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?Losing Deep-Sea Science in the United States
Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this…
View More Losing Deep-Sea Science in the United StatesThe biggest deep sea exploration news in 50 years?
Folks, it’s on! Some of you may know of the “race to the bottom”, a confluence of several missions aimed at returning humans to the…
View More The biggest deep sea exploration news in 50 years?