1960: The diving submersible Trieste descends to the floor of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known place on earth. via Wired Some pictures from Kevin…
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Kite-Powered Ships
From the Telegraph via Neatorama… Inventor Stephan Warge has devised a 160 sq meter kite, based on kitesurfing rigs, that can be attached to commercial…
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Underwater Text Messaging
Via Crave, I see that Underwater Technologies Center has created a Underwater Digital Interface that can keep 56 divers networked with ships or land bases…
View More Underwater Text MessagingHyperSub
The Marian Hypersub is something else entirely or so the website says. Actually the HS is 31 years in the making and kicks of our…
View More HyperSubSteampunk Deep-Sea Creatures (and other animals)
Via Dark Roasted Blend… French city of Nantes recently became host to extremely strange and fascinating sculptural display: “Les Machines de l’Ile Nantes”, designed by…
View More Steampunk Deep-Sea Creatures (and other animals)New Chinese Research Vessel
From The Hindu news is that The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanography will be overseeing the construction of a new 4,000 ton research…
View More New Chinese Research VesselFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Western Flyer
Fans of Steinbeck will recall that the fishing boat that he and Ed Ricketts took to the Sea of Cortez was named the Western Flyer.…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Western FlyerChikyu Vs. The Earthquake
Behemoth is the only word that comes to mind as I discuss, with mouth agape, about the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu. JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency…
View More Chikyu Vs. The EarthquakeOf Alvin, Space Shuttles, and the Human Need to Explore
I am currently reading Descent, the story of the Bathysphere, Beebe, and Barton. Conversing with Christina Kellogg during a recent trip and the book forced…
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