Category: Vessels and Equipment
Has Amelia Earhart’s Plane Been Found?
It really isn’t my goal to turn DSN into a conspiracy blog, but then I wasn’t expecting someone to claim to have found Amelia Earhart’s…
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The Giant Turtle Boat of Your Dreams
Hey there, DSN’ers! Have you ever dreamt of cruising the waves aboard a colossal, city-sized vessel shaped like an oversized turtle? Well, buckle up your…
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My 25 Favorite Things For Ocean Field Work
Next week my research group heads out to sea for our Gulf of Mexico research project on deep-sea wood falls. Make sure to pay attention…
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3-D Printing the Ulitmate Deep-Sea Christmas Tree
Armed with the lab’s trusty Ultimaker 3-D printer, our imaginations, and endless source of inspiration that is deep-sea life and science, my lab and I…
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The Continued Boondoggle of the Ocean Cleanup
boon·dog·gle /ˈbo͞onˌdäɡəl/ noun: work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. verb: waste money or time on unnecessary…
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How to recover when something goes very, very wrong at sea
No shit, Sherlock. A staggering achievement – fishing for a 2m thing in 5000m water with a 10,000m line … very, very well done. https://t.co/gvKiU23H9B…
View More How to recover when something goes very, very wrong at seaA research cruise as depicted by a high-seas adventure cartoonist? YAAASSSS
It has now come to our attention that EVERY cruise needs a high seas adventure cartoonist. Lucy Bellwood’s comic on her three weeks at sea with the…
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Can you hear me, Major Tom?
“Can you “Here am I floating ’round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do” -Space…
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Rocky Intertidal v.2.0
Last year, DSN compatriot and Captain of the rag-tag crew over at Southern Fried Science, dropped a science outreach bomb. Dr. A.D. Thaler struck some ecological/technological brilliance in…
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