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…
TGIF: Nautilus clip from "Ocean Deep"
Clips from the BBC series Planet Earth Ocean Deep episode have found their way to YouTube. The clip embedded above starts in a deep (guessing…
View More TGIF: Nautilus clip from "Ocean Deep"Friday Deep-Sea Picture (9/7/07): Sea Butterflies
Clione, a shell-less snail know as the Sea Butterfly swims in the shallow waters beneath Arctic ice. Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Explorer and Elisabeth…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (9/7/07): Sea ButterfliesAs 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 GuggenheimWhen Crabs Go Bad
“Welcome to the ugly underbelly of marine science…The author does not condone the behaviors depicted on this website. Marine invertebrates should not use drugs or…
View More When Crabs Go BadSea turtles rebounding in Gulf of Mexico
The Corpus Christi Caller Times reported Monday that a record number of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) nests were found this year on South…
View More Sea turtles rebounding in Gulf of Mexico"New Gold Rush" off Africa
Seafloor mining continues to gain popularity in response to discoveries of diamond beds off Namibia and mineral deposits off Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.…
View More "New Gold Rush" off AfricaTGIF: Another Atlantis
This week’s TGIF video comes from Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura who says he has identified the ruins of a sunken city off the coast of Japan. If you SCUBA dive, you’ll love it. If you don’t, you’ll wish you did. Could this be “another Atlantis”?
View More TGIF: Another Atlantis