I try to keep all posts here strictly on topic, after all this is Deep-Sea News. So if you are not interested in my personal…
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In The Future We Will All Have Gills…
and live in underwater cities made of lollipops and children’s dreams. And we will tour the ocean depths with Undersea Tourist Boats! O what a…
View More In The Future We Will All Have Gills…Rogue Waves
The oil freighter Esso Languedoc outside the coast of Durban (1980). The man who took it, Philippe Lijour, estimated the mean wave height when this…
View More Rogue WavesFrom The Desk of Zelnio: Lucernaria janetae
Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria: Staurozoa: Lucernariidae) Stauromedusae are not entirely uncommon, but not entirely common either. In fact “stalked jellyfish”, as they are sometimes known, are…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: Lucernaria janetaeThe Perils of the Sea
It appears that the vessel rolled in heavy seas while the chef was slicing food causing a knife to lacerate his abdomen. From iafrica.com
View More The Perils of the SeaSea-turtle marathon winner
Mr. Leatherback reports that we have a winner in the Great Turtle Race. A sea-turtle named Billie made the trek from Coast Rica to the…
View More Sea-turtle marathon winnerPoster child for Earth Day?
This Earth Day, remember the deep-sea. The goblin shark (shown here) and the frill shark are two of the rarest and deepest dwelling of sharks.…
View More Poster child for Earth Day?Signing-off on Megavertebrate Week
The core idea behind Megavertebrate Week was to identify neritic species that can be found in the deep sea, in order to make that “deep-sea…
View More Signing-off on Megavertebrate WeekStudying whale behavior from Davey Jones locker
Story by Michelle Kinzel, OSU How do you study the sperm whale, Physeter catadon, when they dive up to 3 km (1.9 miles) to the…
View More Studying whale behavior from Davey Jones lockerWhale sharks do it deeper
A close encounter with a whale shark is one of the “things to do” on the life list for many scuba divers and snorkelers. Perhaps you have been one of the lucky few to swim with these enormous friendly elasmobranchs off Honduras in Utila (pictured), off Belize at Gladden Spit, or off the coast of south Texas in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
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