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…
Oil tankers drop their anchors on Saba Bank while waiting to approach the port in St Eustatius, and it’s causing serious damage to coral reefs and their associated habitats.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (11/02/07) – Anchor dragged through coralsThis here 8′ tiger shark below circled me and Dr. Juan Armando Sanchez twice as we collected gorgonians in 25m of water in a flat rubble landscape on the Saba Bank interior last week.
View More My friend the Tiger SharkSlow news week but stumbled upon this over my morning cup of joe.
View More Squid CoinIn the words of Rick at MBSL&S So let’s just say you have a couple hundred thousand metric tons of iron filings laying around the…
View More Will Iron Fertilization Work?Many of you have probably seen this already. No doubt, you have said something like This thing has teeth where a beak should be —…
View More Octopod TeethRick at MBSL&S tagged me to produce “my favorite ocean-themed scary movies.” My favorite has to be Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961). Edward Wain…
View More Happy Hallomeme: Ocean-Themed Scary MoviesYou can find anything on the internet…
View More TGIF: Aquaman Dance PartyFrom JAMSTEC: Scaly foot–a spiral gastropod clad in iron sulfide scales Found only in an extremely limited region of hyrdothermal areas within the Indian Ocean,…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Scaly FootSure Sphere is a filthy piece of literary swill but it also a vital component of any submersible. As you may remember from geometry, for…
View More SphereBeth Terry over at Fake Plastic Fish caught an error in this post about Evert Fresh Produce Bags. I was reading the list of plastic…
View More Plastic Or Not?