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Nautical Term/Phrase Wednesday: Chock-A-Block

Items packed so tightly together as to prevent movement. A chock is typically a wooden wedge used to secure moving objects on deck and in…

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Go Navy! Captain rescued from Somali pirates

Peter Etnoyer April 13, 2009 Captain CNN Maersk military official National Security Council Obama administration Pirate president Richard Phillips Somalia U.S. military United States United States Navy White House

Embedded video from &amp;lt;a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”&amp;gt;CNN Video&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; Somalian pirates received payback for their hostilities on Easter Sunday. Members of the U.S. Navy shot and killed…

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A Blog About Cephalopod Sculpture and Jewerly…

Dr. M April 8, 2009 Cephalopod jewelry mixed media ocotpus sculptor and jewelry designer sculpture

…and I am sure some other stuff too, if I can get past all the sweet necklaces. In Sheryl’s own words… I’m a sculptor and…

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Nautical Term/Phrase Wednesday: Son of a Gun

Dr. M April 8, 2009 British Navy Royal navy sun of gun

From this website… The phrase originated as ‘son of a military man’ (i.e. a gun). The most commonly repeated version in this strand is that…

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World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video

Peter Etnoyer April 6, 2009 deep sea deep-sea coral gerardia gold coral Honduras Karl Stanley stanley submarines submarine

Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…

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TGIF: Robo Octopus Biomimetics

Kevin Zelnio April 3, 2009 Biomimetics Biomimicry Cephalopod New Scientist Octopus robot

Biomimetics is the field of study where animals provide the inspiration for engineering designs that can be exploited by us, quite literally “life mimicking”. It…

Industry & Government Vessels and Equipment

Lubchenco’s 1st Day at NOAA

Kevin Zelnio April 3, 2009 Jane Lubchenco NOAA Rats Scott Smullen The Washington Post

Was marked by a guest appearance… [From The Washington Post] “She has a fine corner office at 15th and Constitution — nothing fancy, but excellent…

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Can we get excited now?

Peter Etnoyer March 31, 2009 bailout Barack Obama fishing NOAA ocean law ocean management Omnibus Public Land Management Act stimulus

President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 into law yesterday, authorizing sustained funding for ocean exploration, mapping, coastal and ocean…

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Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft

Peter Etnoyer March 27, 2009 BBC digital map Ethiopia Google google earth Google Inc.Google Ocean google vs microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation NavTeq video map

A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below.…

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Offshore Luxury Condos

Dr. M March 26, 2009 architecture condo Dubai Gulf of Mexico hotel luxury Morris Architects offshore oil rigs oil derricks prefab

Thousands of offshore oil rigs dot the ocean with nearly 4,000 in the Gulf of Mexico ready to be decommissioned. What do we with all…