Sheril Kirshenbaum of the new Intersection blog at Discover alerts us that the House passed HR 146 yesterday, so the big ocean bill is one…
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System to blame in British sub deaths
Oxygen candles and CO2 scrubbers are the lifeline of a submarine dwelling 200 feet under Arctic ice, but faulty units are to blame for the…
View More System to blame in British sub deathsCalypso Club?
Some of you may remember that when we left ScienceBlogs I wrote… “When I was much, much younger, I joined Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso Club (named…
View More Calypso Club?Sea Shepard: Only Making Matters Worse
In looking over Swimming With Sharks, I came across this video of Sea Shepard ramming a Japanese whaling ship. Appalled is the best word I…
View More Sea Shepard: Only Making Matters WorseWanna Be A Mermaid?
From CNET… Good: double amputee gets prosthetic legs so she can walk. Better: double amputee gets realistic-looking mermaid tail so she can swim. Awesome: it’s…
View More Wanna Be A Mermaid?Island Views
Holy Flying Fish Captain, That’s A Submarine!
From the Gaurdian… A Royal Navy nuclear submarine and a French vessel have been damaged in a collision deep below the surface of the Atlantic…
View More Holy Flying Fish Captain, That’s A Submarine!Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja California
Scripps Insitute of Oceanography (SIO) post-doc Brad Erisman and colleagues Exequiel Ezcurra and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza used the three person DeepSee submersible to explore nearshore and…
View More Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja CaliforniaEye In The Sea
Wired Magazine has nice write up about the cabled observatory, ECHO, and the Eye in the Sea that I discussed yesterday.
View More Eye In The SeaEye in the Sea
In case you missed it. The first ever deep-sea web cam is up and running. I said the FIRST EVER DEEP-SEA WEB CAM. I don’t…
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