The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight
Guest post by Dr. Melissa Betters “They got it!” echoed shouts down the hallways of the Research Vessel Atlantis in Fall 2018. The whole science…
Near my ol’ neck of the woods, a boat captain photographed this albino bottleneck in Calcasieu Lake, an estuary off the Gulf in southwestern Louisiana
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (07/06/07)You ask and we deliver. A reader requested video of the Lamalera Sperm Whale Hunt. I immediately dispersed DSN whipping boy and now blogger extraordinare…
View More Lamalera Take On Sperm Whales: The Video!Real men hunt whale’s with their bare hands in homemade boats.
View More Lamalera Fisherman Take On Whale in Hand to Fin CombatA team of marine biologists, geologists, and oceanographers studying chemosynthetic communities around hydrocarbon seeps aboard the Deep Slope Expedition 2007 research vessel RV Ron Brown…
View More Time-lapse camera recovered from seafloorIt’s a bird! It’s a plane. It’s Oct-Squid!
View More Octo-Squid!The Mining Journal reports on statements by Nautilus representatives at the Numis Mining Conference with respect to criticism levied in Science. Norgate argued that the…
View More Mining the Ocean Floor is Good!When we picture monsters from the deep, most envision colossal sea beasts ready to drag the unsuspecting sailor to abyss. In actuality the sea beasts…
View More Sea Monsters Lurk in Your GutMore on the continuing saga that surrounds the Black Swan reported at the New Straits Times. This is going to get pretty confusing so I…
View More Volvo and the Black SwanThe French have discovered that UV radiation penetrates up to 100m deep in the waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean. They propose this might explain…
View More Sea Creatures May Get SunburnsThe Setting of the Sun Over the Pacific Ocean and a Towering Thundercloud, July 21, 2003 As Seen From the International Space Station (Expedition 7)
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (6/29/07): Pacific From Space