Introducing a New Species: My Namesake, a New Bone-Eating Worm
Osedax worms, or the ‘bone eating’ worms are little soft sacks resembling snotty little flowers. The “bone devourer” is not quite accurate as the worms…
As part of the Gutenberg Project to make available copyright-free (i.e. old) books available in print online, I came across Within the Deep by R.…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: R. Cadwallader Smith's Within the DeepCharles Messing graciously shared these pictures with DSN of crawling crinoids. You can see the full movie here. Cenocrinus asterius, a larger species, in the…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/04/07)Benthobatis marcida (Chordata: Elasmobranchii: Torpediniformes: Narcinidae) “It is a clumsy fish about a yard long, and very ugly. Being too slow to catch its swift…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: Benthobatis marcidaI try to keep all posts here strictly on topic, after all this is Deep-Sea News. So if you are not interested in my personal…
View More Did My Dog Die From Melamine?In case your are unfamiliar with this group, Wespac is the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council in charge of policy for the management of…
View More I need to get a job at Wespacand live in underwater cities made of lollipops and children’s dreams. And we will tour the ocean depths with Undersea Tourist Boats! O what a…
View More In The Future We Will All Have Gills…So when I am down in a submersible, I worry about protection. What happens if I accidentally drop my USB flash drive out the window…
View More A Deep Sea Rated Flash DriveAn oddly incomplete article is over at the Tenerife News Online. Despite its revealing title of An Interview with Professor Searle – MICHAEL – IN…
View More Big Drills and THE NEED OF AN INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHThe oil freighter Esso Languedoc outside the coast of Durban (1980). The man who took it, Philippe Lijour, estimated the mean wave height when this…
View More Rogue WavesExterior view of Phoenix 1000. Photo from U.S. Submarines Regular readers of DSN know that Peter and I try to provide all the latest information…
View More $78 Million Is All I Need