How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Deep-Sea Reading List
I have finally gotten around to creating a list of deep-sea themed books, with some others thrown in at Amazon. Some of you will recognize…
View More Deep-Sea Reading ListSome Quotes From William Beebe
Quotes from Beebe’sHalf-Mile Down in which he describes his and Otis Barton’s 1934 descent to 3,028 feet off Bermuda. To reach this depth the two…
View More Some Quotes From William BeebeDeep Oil Exploration Techniques Used to Test for Sports Doping
Research and exploration into our deep oceans has resulted in a magnitude of benefits to society from medicinal compounds to improved navigation and mapping equipment.…
View More Deep Oil Exploration Techniques Used to Test for Sports DopingHighlights from the Ocean Sciences Meeting
I know I was supposed to be live blogging the conference, but there is just so much to do and see here the ASLO Ocean…
View More Highlights from the Ocean Sciences MeetingTGIF: Giant Isopods
Giant Isopods Ate My Well-Known Brand of Corn Chip They will attack you when your sleeping! Everything is better when narrated by Sir David Attenborough
View More TGIF: Giant IsopodsFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Giant Isopods
Dive Film in HD
By random but thankful chance I stumbled upon DiveFilm HD Podcast in the ITunes Store (click here). The podcast features some of the best underwater…
View More Dive Film in HDWho Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?Cephalopod Freak Show
Unfortunately, Zoologix beat us to the story of Henry the Hexapus. Henry, caught in a lobster pot off north Whales, is the first reported six-legged…
View More Cephalopod Freak ShowGuts full of rubbish
Plastic bags from the stomach of a dead minke whale are making the news in the UK. British newspaper Daily Mail has a story on…
View More Guts full of rubbish