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The Continued Boondoggle of the Ocean Cleanup

boon·dog·gle /ˈbo͞onˌdäɡəl/ noun: work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. verb: waste money or time on unnecessary…

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An Octopus Nursery Discovered on a Deep Underwater Mountain

Dr. M November 11, 2018 Brooding California Davidson Seamount nursery Octopus Pacific sanctuary Seamount

Far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, three quarters of a mile deep, lies the peak of an underwater mountain. Rising 1.4 miles off…

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Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.

Dr. M January 4, 2014 climate change Fukushima Ken Smith marine snow MBARI NPP Pacific phytoplankton Primary Production Radiation salp

Recently we at Deep-Sea News have tried to combat misinformation about the presence of high levels of Fukushima radiation and its impact on marine organisms…

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Are humans and reefs sharks mutually exclusive?

Alistair Dove May 7, 2012 Pacific sharks

A paper by Marc Nadon and colleagues from U. Hawaii and U Miami RSMAS has been getting a good bit of press lately (see here…

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Deepest Underwater Volcanic Eruption

Dr. M December 21, 2009 eruption Pacific video Volcano

All captured in video by scientists exploring 1220m (4000ft) beneath the surface in Pacific Ocean near Samoa the previous summer. The lava erupting from the…

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Deepest Fish On Film

Dr. M November 15, 2009 Baited Camera Traps deep fish food fall lander Pacific snailfish Trench

In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above, Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found…

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Back From the Blue

Dr. M September 15, 2009 Chris Mah echinoblog Expeditions Pacific

Back from the great NE Pacific and no sooner do I return than Kevin takes off for the great SE Atlantic. Overall a very productive…

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Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion

Dr. M August 11, 2009 abyss carbon cycle detritus echinoderm fatty acid food web grenadier lipid macrourids marine snow Pacific predator prey rattail Scavenger Station M.trophic

The 285 macrourid fishes, the rattails, whiptails, and grenadiers, are one of, if not the, most abundant fish in the deep. You cannot throw…well anything…without…

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TGIF: Polychaete

Dr. M March 27, 2009 holdfast Invertebrate kelp Pacific Polychaete the University of Nebraska-Lincoln video zoology

Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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