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…
Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/04/07)
Charles 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)From The Desk of Zelnio: Benthobatis marcida
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 marcidaDid My Dog Die From Melamine?
I 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?I need to get a job at Wespac
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 WespacIn The Future We Will All Have Gills…
and 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…A Deep Sea Rated Flash Drive
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 DriveBig Drills and THE NEED OF AN INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH
An 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 PARAGRAPHRogue Waves
The 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 Waves$78 Million Is All I Need
Exterior 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 NeedThe Twilight Zone, The Gate, and The Abyss
The twilight zone is a section of water extending from the euphotic zone down to 1000m. A new study demonstrates that this region acts like…
View More The Twilight Zone, The Gate, and The Abyss