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Exploration, thy name is Atlantis

If everything goes smoothly, this morning at around 11 o’clock, four brave souls strapped to 800,000 gallons of liquid oxygen, hydrogen and hydrazine will ride a…

Environmental Sciences Expeditions Life At Sea Natural Disaster New Research Vessels and Equipment

Follow along with Fukushima researchers

Alistair Dove June 10, 2011 Fukushima Japan pollution Radiation Research

There’s a research cruise underway right now to study the impacts of radiation release from the Fukushima disaster in Japan, using the UNOLS/U. Hawaii ship…

Vessels and Equipment

Diving With A Vintage Aqualung

Dr. M May 31, 2011 Aqualung Jacques Cousteau regulator scuba diving

Last Saturday, I spend the day diving at Fantasy Lake. I enjoyed two dives at 40-50 feet in the old quarry exploring a rock crusher,…

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New Triton Manned Submersible

Dr. M May 10, 2011 Challenger Deep submersible

Sir Richard Branson isn’t the only one wanting to return to the Challenger Deep. Now, submersible designers Triton Submarines aims to take humans down to…

Biology New Research Vessels and Equipment

Scuba Diving = Crappy Vessels?

Dr. M April 25, 2011 decompression sickness Health medicine nitrox scuba diving

If you scuba dive, you may already have heard of Nitrox. To breath underwater, most divers use a normal atmospheric air mixture (21% oxygen, 78%…

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Fish-driven robot!

Miriam Goldstein April 10, 2011 dolphins help us ahhhh robot

Via Aili C-F, who asks “What happens when the dolphins discover this technology and then the dolphin robots attack???” Well, it might look something like…

Expeditions Vessels and Equipment