…that is if you forget that they are gas-guzzling uber machines spewing carbon dioxide. Aerosols produced by the exhaust from large oceanic vessels often produce…
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Open Up the Bubbly for SeaWiFS
SeaWiFS turns 10 this year. What is SeaWiFS? It is one of the most important advances of science in the last 20 years. The SeaWiFS…
View More Open Up the Bubbly for SeaWiFSField Rated Flash Drive
Corsair generously sent along their 8GB Survivor Flash Drive midsummer for me to field test at the behesting of this post. Over the last few…
View More Field Rated Flash DriveWhich Luxury Sub Are You Buying?
Friday Deep-Sea Picture (8/17/07): Trieste
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): TriesteAnd 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 Cooler