Hump Day Happiness: Dive into Deep-Sea Delights
You know what your hump day needs? Some absolute stunning photos of deep-sea animals. Look at this one. Look at that one. You gotta get…
Laser line scan mosaic of a pool of brine surrounded by mussels at a depth of 700 meters in the Gulf of Mexico. From here.…
View More Brine PoolsFrom MBARI: This is a worm? This photograph of the newly named worm shows its mouth, which typically faces downward as the animal drifts about…
View More Pig Butt or Marine Worm?Wired Magazine is running an interesting story on Nautilus Minerals and their plans to mine the seafloor off Papua New Guine. The media offerings and…
View More Vent MiningA great response from the readers to last week’s Pose a Question post. Here are some answers. Jim inquires, “What’s the current take on a…
View More You Ask, I AnswerTagged by the meme from Adventures in Ethics and Science and Retrospectacle… I have OCD tendencies. All the hangers in my closet have to be…
View More The ’10 weird things about me’…the meme.Tagged by the meme from Adventures in Ethics and Science and Retrospectacle… I have OCD tendencies. All the hangers in my closet have to be…
View More The '10 weird things about me'…the meme.An expedition to reveal the secrets of a mysterious huge hole at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean started overnight.
View More How Did That Get There?Every since I worked at wine merchant in Natick, MA to pay for my tiny apartment during graduate school, I have enjoyed Italian wines. My…
View More Wine and WhalesIn celebration of IPY, the Canadian Post has released a set of stamps (above). One of these is the polar, deep-sea jellyfish, Crossota millsaeare. The…
View More IPY StampsSecrets of the Gulf Expedition is broadcasting live footage of submersible surveys at 100m depth around the Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico.…
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