New cool research from Wagner et al. that despite the lack of “day” and “night”, deep-sea fish experience daily cycles. What is the trigger? Diurnal…
View More The Daily Going Ons Of Deep-Sea FishCategory: New Research
New Expeditions With Pictures
Two major expeditions took place in the last few months. The first explored Celebes Sea south of the Philippines from the surface to a depth…
View More New Expeditions With PicturesLego Captain Cook
What else can you say? More famous people here. More on Captain James Cook here!
View More Lego Captain CookReason #111 Not to Pursue A Job In Oceanographic Sciences
Maybe another reason for scientist to carry Glocks in the field. A boat carrying six scientists from Waltair-Vishkhapatnam-based regional centre attached to Goa-based National Institute…
View More Reason #111 Not to Pursue A Job In Oceanographic SciencesFree Old Oceanography Data Online!
The National Museum of Natural History now has the station data and original cruise logs from the research vessels Albatross and Blake online. NOAA Ocean…
View More Free Old Oceanography Data Online!Internal waves on coral reefs in South China Sea
Oceanographers live in a different world than we do. They occupy a different time-space continuum. We can only wish we had the time to watch a large internal wave breaking onshore every four hours in the South China Sea.
View More Internal waves on coral reefs in South China SeaAs NGOs rise, Greenpeace goes under
Last month, Greenpeace raised the bar for pro-active ocean exploration by an NGO to inform better ocean management by outfitting their own “green” vessel, the Esperanza, with two Deep Worker manned submersibles depth rated to 600m.
View More As NGOs rise, Greenpeace goes underFine. We'll rent a submarine and do it ourselves.
So, why would an environmental organization pilot a pair of manned submersibles through 2000 feet of water in the two largest submarine canyons in the world? Because it’s going to be a long time before federal agencies are willing to surrender the financing to secure a ship and submersibles. By that time the seafloor could be bottom trawled one hundred times over.
View More Fine. We'll rent a submarine and do it ourselves.Interview with a sub-pilot : John Hocevar
The following exclusive interview was conducted by Deep Sea News over email with John Hocevar, ocean specialist for the Greenpeace organization, and a sub-pilot for the 2007 Bering Witness expedition.
View More Interview with a sub-pilot : John HocevarInterview with a sub-pilot: David Guggenheim
The following exclusive interview was conducted by Deep Sea news over email with Dr. David Guggenheim, submarine pilot and scientific advisor for the 2007 Bering Witness expedition. He is the founder of 1planet1ocean; and the OceanDoctor blog.
View More Interview with a sub-pilot: David Guggenheim