Tragedy At Sea
From [email protected]… Russian marine biologist was drowned, and an Italian badly hurt, when the research vessel on which they were working was rammed by a…
View More Tragedy At SeaCarnival of the Blue III
The latest and best of salt-water writing is up at Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets.
View More Carnival of the Blue IIIOxygen Starts A Deep-Sea Party & You’re 580 Ma Late
A day ~575 million years ago seemed like any other. Life was simple, not as in life was easy, but organisms were simple creatures. Then,…
View More Oxygen Starts A Deep-Sea Party & You’re 580 Ma LateOxygen Starts A Deep-Sea Party & You're 580 Ma Late
A day ~575 million years ago seemed like any other. Life was simple, not as in life was easy, but organisms were simple creatures. Then,…
View More Oxygen Starts A Deep-Sea Party & You're 580 Ma LateCorals In Acid
Being a coral in acid may not be that bad.
View More Corals In AcidFriday Deep-Sea Picture (August 3, 2007)
The orange gas hydrate is home to Hesiocaeca methanicola, a newly discovered species of marine worm found in the Gulf of Mexico in 1997. This…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (August 3, 2007)Alvin 2.0
It appears that Lockheed Martin will be building the replacement for the Alvin submersible, which I am now officially calling A2. The price for A2?…
View More Alvin 2.0Tuesday Afternoon Roundup
As I finish off my day, three separate stories are rolling around in my head. This year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone, that fun-loving anoxic…
View More Tuesday Afternoon RoundupDSN Wins An Award…Finally!
Well three years in to this intellectual hurricane we call DSN and I am going have to take down my beloved “We Never Won A…
View More DSN Wins An Award…Finally!Underwater Ticking Timebomb
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army, In 1964, mustard gas canisters are pushed into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey. Millions of pounds were dumped…
View More Underwater Ticking Timebomb