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…
The Mineral Management Service under the Bush Administration is running wild on the PR campaign about the benefits of deep-sea oil platforms. Thanks to Scientific…
View More Big Oil Cares About The OceanTriton Logging Inc’s founder claims 45,000 untapped submerged forests exist in the world, and he’s developing a fleet of remote controlled submersible chainsaws to harvest them.
View More Incredible robot harvests timber underwaterIs a malfunctioning brain what drives people to spend $20,000 on a seashell?
View More Brain Problems Can Make People Spend $20,000 On SeashellsAt the beginning of March, DSN reported on DEPTHX. The picture is of DEPTHX. It weighs about 1.2 tons, shaped like a mushroom, and can…
View More DEPTHX to Europa by 2019The answer is still no but read below if you care to know why you cannot eat monkfish (maybe better known as anglerfish). In January,…
View More Can I Eat Monkfish?For the ultra rich in the next decade the Waldorf-Astoria is probably going to be a bit passe. “My pomeranians and I had spent every…
View More On This Episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…Apparently the pelagic pollution phenomenon is beyond clogging the stomachs of the marine megavertebrates, and it’s making people fat, too. Think about that the next time the cashier double-bags your one gallon jug of milk. For the sake of the ocean, say “paper please”.
View More Plastic Expanding InevitableKick ’em Jenny is a 1300m submerged volcano residing about 8km off the Grenada coast and the only live submarine volcano in the West Indies. …
View More Keeping Ties on JennyOne of the benefits of my office being on the shore is seeing this some mornings. The behavior of sticking one fin out of the…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) Jug HandlingEach of these gastropods are from the deep sea in the North Atlantic near 1500m. Each is is a few mm in height.
View More Friday (-1) Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) X-Ray Shells