Yesterday, I looked out my window* and saw the next part of the MARS project falling into place (previous post 1, previous post 2, BBC…
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Cool New Gadgetry
The picture is of DEPTHX. It weighs about 1.2 tons, shaped like a mushroom, and navigate itself into your bedroom. Just kidding. No not really. …
View More Cool New GadgetryOn Giving Up Guinness To Afford My Own Submarine
So if I can manage to save my next three years of salary, and not spend any money on Guinness rent, I will be really…
View More On Giving Up Guinness To Afford My Own SubmarineNew Boat Smell
What does 78.1 million U.S. dollars buy you? Presidential election? A month’s supply of prescription medication? Health care? A house in California? Definitely not enough…
View More New Boat SmellWave Adaptive Modular Vessel
Yeah that’s a mouthful of a name…so go with WAM-V. Got to say this is one of cooler designs I have seen, much better than…
View More Wave Adaptive Modular VesselAlvin Pilot Video
Peter’s post on the Alvin pilots generated an email from Janet Voight, deep-sea cephalopod expert extraordinaire, pointing me to this great video. Enjoy.
View More Alvin Pilot VideoGear bias in global warming estimates
A new article in Journal of Geophysical Research by Gouretski and Koltermann shows global warming estimates since the 1950’s are positively biased 0.2 – 0.4…
View More Gear bias in global warming estimatesAlvin has Pilots?
I don’t know if you guys caught the comment below from Bruce Strickrott, Chief Pilot of the DSV Alvin. We have been trying to get…
View More Alvin has Pilots?The Goddess Visits the South Pole
The BBC higlights a January expedition of Southampton Oceanographic Centre’s (SOC) ROV Isis to the Antarctic. The project is to explore the sediment and organisms…
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