To nice to save till tomorrow, Kevin sent along a “old” submersible chapter from Hill’s The Sea from 1963. The chapter itself is authored by…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (8/17/07): TriesteCategory: Gadgets & Gear
And the #1 Thing Not To Do With Your Own Submersible…
…go near the QE2 Duke Riley, a heavily tattooed Brooklyn artist, was arrested after his homemade submarine that looked like an 18th century Bushnell Turtle…
View More And the #1 Thing Not To Do With Your Own Submersible…Alvin 2.0
It appears that Lockheed Martin will be building the replacement for the Alvin submersible, which I am now officially calling A2. The price for A2?…
View More Alvin 2.0Tuesday Afternoon Roundup
As I finish off my day, three separate stories are rolling around in my head. This year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone, that fun-loving anoxic…
View More Tuesday Afternoon RoundupClaiming The Polar Seabed
From the Moscow Times… Two deep-sea submersibles made a test dive in polar waters Sunday ahead of a mission to be the first to reach…
View More Claiming The Polar SeabedNEEMO Just Got A Lot Cooler
Image above: NEEMO 11 crew member works near the undersea habitat “Aquarius” during a session of extravehicular activity for the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations…
View More NEEMO Just Got A Lot CoolerAnd Then I Used Spoons…
…to hold open the wound after I made the incision so I could remove his appendix. And that is the story of how I became…
View More And Then I Used Spoons…Mile Down Club
With new technology comes new opportunities. So you say your a member of the mile high club…but what about the reverse. Don’t worry neither am…
View More Mile Down ClubAlvin Disassembly Time Lapse
Time-lapse movie of the disassembly of Alvin during the 2005 overhaul.
View More Alvin Disassembly Time LapseUK’s ISIS Explores Underwater “Grand Canyon” Off Portugal
Bathymetric image of the Nazare Canyon off the coast of Portugal. Photo courtesy of the BBC. The BBC has released a short news piece on…
View More UK’s ISIS Explores Underwater “Grand Canyon” Off Portugal