What started off 2 years ago as a joke by sub enthusiasts, will now be a reality. The Navy has made it clear that it…
View More Navy Allows Women on SubsCategory: Vessels and Equipment
The Gyre, A Deepscraper
Zigloo Designs proposes the Gyre, a structure part ocean research laboratory, port, sky-scraper, hotel, resort. Reaching depths of 400m, Gyre would reach into the depths…
View More The Gyre, A Deepscraper“Amusing” Patent for Deep-Sea Voyage
The world of patenting is quite different from the world of science. Weaving through the legalese and dry writing is horrendous at time. I am…
View More “Amusing” Patent for Deep-Sea VoyageWhat’s Bigger Than Giga
I guess GigaYacht A wasn’t freakin’ big enough. I need a yacht the size of two football fields. And even though I will be surrounded…
View More What’s Bigger Than GigaTransformers…Ocean Science Style
I waited patiently for Transformers the movie to release. Luckily the dialogue, plot, and having to suffer through what Megan Fox tries to pass as…
View More Transformers…Ocean Science StyleDispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s ProgressManned or Unmanned?
The internets is consumed recently with the Obama administration’s choice to cut funding for NASA manned space exploration. Manned missions to the moon or development…
View More Manned or Unmanned?Dispatches from Antarctica – Slow Days
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – Slow DaysCelebrating the Deepest Dive
Last year saw the passing of a legend, Jacques Piccard. Along with Don Walsh, these two trailblazers forged an era of deep-sea exploration that no…
View More Celebrating the Deepest DiveTGIF: Dry Land Submarine
This week’s TGIF comes from a post I read on Penguin Wanderings. Craig and I are looking into these as our new base of operations…
View More TGIF: Dry Land Submarine