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Sperm Whales May Team Up On Deep Sea Squid
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A new study suggests that sperm whales hunt collaboratively with each one taking on a different role
50th Anniversary Of Deep Sea Discovery
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The deepest part of the ocean, sitting at 35,800 feet was explored for the first time 50 years ago today
Expedition to Indian Ocean Returns With Amazing Photographs
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The Seamount expedition has returned with interesting findings
Bizarre Sponges Discovered In Deep Hawaiin Waters
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Bizarre sponges were discovered earlier in the month in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. HD video and photographs were taken of the discoveries
Amazing Jellyfish Photographs
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National Geographic posted photographs of some very interesting jellyfish in deep arctic ocean.
Deep Sea Robot Monitors Climate Change
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A new robot spent most of July traveling across the muddy ocean bottom, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) off the California coast
Scientists Discover Bioluminescent 'Green Bombers' from the Deep Sea
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Orbs lobbed by mysterious worms burst into brilliant light, thought to be a defensive measure
Mid-Atlantic Ridge May Yield Clues To Deep Sea Communities
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An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea...
Deep Sea Animals To Suffer From Increase In Dead Zones
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New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly over the next century
Video: Chess Game Part 2
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An in depth look at Dr. Chris German's science as he discusses what is found around deep sea vents and seeps in part 2 of Rick Morris's short film, Chess Game.
The Role Of Underwater Photography In Ocean Research
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Stuart Halewood, a marine research specialist, writes about the importance of underwater photography in ocean research.
Researchers Solve Mystery Of Deep-Sea Fish With Tubular Eyes And Transparent Head
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Amazing images of an amazing fish. This is great stuff any marine life lover will go nuts about
Ancient Sharks Saw The Deep Sea In Color
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Primitive deep-sea fish may have viewed the world in color
Deep Water Ocean Discoveries off Australia
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Deep ocean investigations to the southwest of Tasmania have discovered previously unknown fields of 10,000-year-old fossilized corals
Microbe Survivor
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Pompeii worm covered by bacteria lives in the deep ocean's hydrothermal vents, so far, the most heat tolerant animal on the planet
Census Of Marine Life Deep Sea Octopus & More
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As our readers know, our newest member to the DPG team is Rick Morris, from the Census of Marine life. It seems like everywhere we turn now, CoML is releasing information and images of the truly...
Turbines To Use Tidal Flow For More Energy
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Turbines are being developed to go with the flow of the ocean, rather than be planted in one place.
Scientists Set To Visit Deep Sea Volcanoes For First TIme
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British scientists have received funding to visit the "Lost World" a series of previously unexplored undersea volcanoes.
Viruses Reason For Paradox Of The Deep Sea
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Viruses inhibit animals from taking advantage of nutrients found in deep sea sediment.
Deep Mystery: Why Sea Turtles Plumb The Depths
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Researchers say they have figured out why sea turtles that normally feed and breed in shallow water or on land will, very rarely, go deep sea diving: the reptiles are on reconnaissance.
Geologists Discover Signs of Volcanoes Blowing Their Tops in The Deep Ocean
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A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean
Scientists Aim to Unlock Deep-Sea 'Secrets' of Earth's Crust
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Scientists from Durham University will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust
Deep-Sea Sharks Wired For Sound
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Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing.
Deep Peril For Deep-Sea Corals
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Marine biologists say that deep-sea corals and attendant organisms easily rival tropical reefs in their diversity - and their fragility
Fishery Council Approves Coral Habitat Plan
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The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council on Friday approved plans that will ban deep sea bottom trawling from 23,000 square miles of coral habitat
Ralph White Tribute
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We lost one of the true pioneers in diving Ralph White. He was an innovator, very experienced and a leader. White combined his love for adventure and cinematography.
Ancient Climate Secrets Raised From Ocean Depths
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Scientists aboard the research vessel, Southern Surveyor, return to Hobart today with a collection of coral samples and photographs taken in the Southern Ocean at greater depths than ever before
Saving the Deep Sea Will Save the World
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Got your attention? Good. Biodiversity is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot.
The Stinky Fish of Poor Fishing Practice
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Destructive fishing has many critics, with the newest being an animated fish puppet emerging from an icebox to push the virtues of sustainably caught seafood
Deep Sea Corals Under Scrutiny
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A team of international scientists is hoping to unlock some of the secrets of the deep Southern Ocean, and the effects of climate change, using a state-of-the-art, unmanned submersible
Ocean Vents Have Unique 'Plumbing'
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Thirty years ago, scientists exploring the depths of the ocean came across jets of hot water, spewing from the sea floor, that hauled up flecks of gold and other minerals from Earth's interior and...
Loss of Deep Sea Species Could Lead to 'Ocean Collapse'
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Extinction of often little-known deep sea species could seriously threaten the future of the world's oceans, according to a new report
Deep-Sea Species' Loss Could Lead to Oceans' Collapse
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The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current Biology
Deep Coral Happenings on Capitol Hill
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We have a new state in this country! Welcome number 53. It's called "The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States"
Deep-Ocean Drilling Researchers Target Earthquake and Tsunami Zone
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Researchers fresh from an eight-week scientific drilling expedition off the Pacific coast of Japan today reported their discovery of strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region notorious...
Cold Seeps are Hot Spots for Life
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New deep-sea images disprove doctrine
Thousands of white crabs grazing on an extensive mussel bed: Up to now such high biomasses in the deep sea were only known from hot vents. Now scientists...
Queensland study probes how whales communicate
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THEY may sound like wops, thwops, grunts, moans and squeaks to the human ear, but they could actually be complex conversations between remarkable ocean mammals.
Thousands of hours of humpback...
Conservation Group Calls For Stronger Deep Ocean Protection
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AS major fishing nations gather today to determine the future of the Northwest Atlantic, members of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) are calling upon states to implement the United...
TAU Scientists Probe 'deep' Questions Aboard EcoOcean's Environmental Research Ship
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Did the great flood of Noahus generation really occur thousands of years ago" Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami" Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain...
Sea's Changing Seasons Revealed
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The deep sea is often thought of as a tranquil, benign environment - but a study led by a scientist at The Australian National University shows that the ocean depths are an extremely dynamic...
Giant Squid Caught Off Italian Coast
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The first giant squid ever captured intact in Italian waters has researchers buzzing about finally being able to learn more about the rare marine animal.
The giant squid, known as architeuthis,...
Weird Deep-Sea Creatures Found In Atlantic
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With a fearsome grin fit for a movie monster, this viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world's most remote locations.
An international team of 31 researchers found this...
Global Conveyor Belt 2007: Hamster Wheel Or Hemicuda?
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Some new waves, pun intended, are being generated this week concerning the meridional overturning circulation (MOC). You are already familiar with the MOC as the ocean conveyor belt. To refresh...
One Of Deep Ocean's Most Turbulent Areas
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More than a mile beneath the Atlantic's surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust...
New Fossils Support Deep-Sea Origin Of Life
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Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean.
The ancient black smoker...
From Killing Aliens To Protecting Aliens Of The Deep
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There seems to be some inherent irony in an actress speaking against bottom trawling who stared in three movies killing aliens based on deep-sea isopods*. That stated, I welcome Sigourney Weaver's...
Robot Sub Explores Giant Canyon
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Using Britain's ISIS robot submarine - a van-sized bundle of high-technology - researchers are for the first time able to view previously hidden features up to 5km (three miles) deep in the Nazare...
Cute Or Scary? Creatures Of The Deep Ocean
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The New York Times has a review and slideshow of a very interesting, very new, and very beautiful science-related coffee table book. It's called The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss....
Departure To Cold Water Corals And Other 'hot Spots'
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The research vessel, Polarstern leaves Bremerhaven for its 22nd Arctic expedition with a new shine, to begin its first work in the International polar year.
Bremerhaven, 24 May 2007. With a new...
Deep Sea 'Alvin' Designer Froehlich Dies
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Harold E. Froehlich, who designed a deep-sea vessel used to explore the wreckage of the Titanic and search for ocean life forms, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 84.
He had cancer and...
New Creature Found Living In Dead Whale
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A new species of sea anemone has been found in the carcass of a whale that sunk to the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey, California, marking the first discovery of one of these filter-feeding...
Underwater Spot Wins A Clio
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On the strength of its Aqualtus Washing Machine "Underwater World" spot, Leo Burnett Italia, Milan, won the Grand Clio in the TV/cinema competition at the 48th annual International Clio...
Deep-Sea X-Rays Of Minute Shells
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Each of these gastropods are from the deep sea in the North Atlantic near 1500m. Each is is a few mm in height...
A Deep Sea Rated Flash Drive
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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 at 600 feet down? What if I am scuba diving and I need 8GB of...
Fish Growing Faster In Warming Waters
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Fish are fattening up faster near the Pacific's surface, which is warming, while species in the deep sea are growing more slowly as that water cools, a new study says.
The shallow-living fish...
National Geographic To Document Philippines Deep Seas
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The National Geographic Channel is sending a team to the Philippines to make a documentary on species endemic in the country's deep seas, according to US Ambassador Kristie Kenney.
"They're...
Deep Sea Fish Growing Slower Due To Global Warming
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Changes in ocean temperature have altered the growth rates of commercially harvested fish over the past century, according to a new study published in this week's early online edition of the...
Meteorite Traces Deep In The Ocean
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A theory suggests a giant meteorite falling on Earth 65 million years ago and killing all dinosaurs. Russian scientists have found traces of this meteorite. During a marine expedition, organized by...
Ireland's Creatures Of The Deep Reveal Themselves For First Time
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BLOOMING spectacularly beneath the surface of the ocean, these striking sea creatures look like they'd be at home in any tropical paradise.
But these wonders of the natural world are not to be...
Drilling The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where the Earth's crust seems to be missing entirely. Instead, the mantle - the...
"Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind?" - Deep Sea Trawling
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This rare sighting of a living frilled shark in such shallow waters was firstly reported to marine park scientists by a fisherman. The incredible video of the prehistoric shark was definitely very...
Scientists Add Shark Species To Endangered List
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Scientists added several species of deep sea sharks on Thursday to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) endangered Red List due to overfishing.
At a meeting in Oxford, England, the...
Long-lived Deep-sea Fishes Imperiled By Technology, Overfishing
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Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely threatened by over-fishing and the species' ability to recover is constrained by the fishes' long lifespans and low...
Call For Elimination Of Government Subsidies For Unsustainable High Seas Fisheries
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At a 9 am press conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (AAAS) on February 18th, an international team of leading fisheries economists, biologists, and...
An Underwater Film Success Story
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IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the highly acclaimed IMAX hit motion picture adventure Deep Sea 3D has reached another box office milestone, surpassing $30 million...
Bite Back - Iceland, Pariah Of The Seas
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Attempts by the UN to protect the world's deep-sea habitats have been thwarted by Iceland's determination to ignore the scientific evidence in pursuit of its own short-term goals. These fragile,...
SEASPACE To Feature Deep Sea 3D IMAX Film
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SEASPACE 2007 will feature the IMAX 3D movie Deep Sea 3D. This uniquely creative film, directed by renowned underwater cinematographers Howard and Michele Hall, includes narration by Johnny Depp...
Second Edition Of Dive Portal DVD Now Available
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John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of Shadow DiversA‚A© and Deep Sea DetectivesA‚A© fame are proud to announce the release of the second issue of their DVD Magazine, Dive PortalA‚A©. Issue 2 is set...
Congress Calls For Research And Protection Of Deep-sea Corals
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They said it couldn't be done Congratulations and thank you to the thousands of you who helped make deep-sea coral research and protection the law of the land (and the sea).
Late Friday...
Deep Sea Yields Record-breaking Bug
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A heat-busting bug has been found that can create usable nitrogen at the extreme temperature of 92 A‚A°C - breaking the old record by 28 A‚A°C.
The finding is more than a gee-whiz record...
Scientists Marvel At Sea Life Miles Deep
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Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined. At one site, nearly 2 miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that...
Life Thrives At Searing Sea Vent, Under Ice: Report
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Marine creatures are thriving by a record hot volcanic vent in the Atlantic and in dark waters under thick Antarctic ice, boosting theories that planets other than Earth are suitable for life,...
Bizarre Deep-sea Creatures Imaged Off New Zealand For The First Time
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Builder's Pencil, which spans 180,000 square meters off New Zealand's eastern coast, is one of the largest seep sites in the world. Recently, a joint US/New Zealand research team studying the area...
Extraordinary Life Found Around New Zealand Deep-sea Gas Seeps
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An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand's east...
First As Scientists Capture Rare Lightshow In The Deep Ocean
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Rare footage of marine creatures putting on deep sea 'lightshows' on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean has been captured by scientists using the latest technology.
So many animals were squirting...
Shadow Divers Announce Release Date For Second Dive Portal DVD Magazine
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John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of Shadow Divers and Deep Sea Detectives fame are proud to announce the release of the second issue of their DVD Magazine, Dive Portal. Issue 2 is set to commence...
Shallow International Law Can't Protect The Deep Sea
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These days the UN General Assembly is discussing the adoption of a declaration calling for an immediate moratorium on deep-sea bottom trawl fishing on the high seas, at least until legally-binding...
Revealing Sea Turtles' Journeys
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Four captive-bred green sea turtles were scheduled for a first experience of the deep sea yesterday.
The 2-year-old animals were brought on board the NCL Pride of Hawai'i, which was scheduled to...
Climate Secrets -- Past, Present And Future -- Revealed With New Tool
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A few years ago, chemical analyses of deep sea muds that used a new X-ray technology were able to help explain why the Classic Mayan civilization collapsed more than a thousand years ago. At the...
Dive With Deep Sea Detectives John And Richie In The Great Lakes
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Sept 8th-9th, 2006 - Mark your calendars for this event. Bring your spouse! Michigan's first Underwater Tourism Summit at the Waterfront Conference Center will include John Chatterton and Richie...
UN Review Shows Need To Halt Destructive Fishing Practice
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A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that damage deep sea life, Conservation...
Dive Portal DVD Launches
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John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of Deep Sea Detectives and author of Shadow Divers, launch a new website and DVD based series called Dive Portal...
Deep-sea Corals In Danger
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Even the coldest, darkest depths of the world's oceans can't escape the harmful effects of global warming -- and that includes deep-sea corals, local researchers have found...
Deep-Sea Fish Populations Boom Over The Last 15 Years
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The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious.
New...
Issue 29 Of Underwater Photography Magazine Now Available For Downloading
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Antibes Film Festival 2006, New product reviews including 2 housings for the D200, Making the IMAX Deep Sea 3D with Howard Hall and more...
Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
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Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to perform scientific missions ranging from monitoring climate change to mapping the...
Review: IMAX Deep Sea 3D
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Deep Sea 3D is a 40 minute total immersion into the underwater world. With charismatic stars including Green Turtles, Giant Pacific Octopus, Mola mola, Mantas, sharks and even a Bowhead Whale, the...
Deep-spied Fish: Atlantic Expeditions Uncover Secret Sex Life Of Deep-sea Nomads
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For centuries scientists have thought of deep-sea pelagic fish as nomadic wanderers, in part because information about them was so limited. However, new results from the ongoing Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
Sea-bottom Pics Reveal Destruction
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Photos of ancient coral and other deep-sea species show how rare marine life is being destroyed by bottom trawling, says the environmental group Greenpeace.
The organisation has what it calls...
Researchers: Parachuting Allows Krill To Eat And Run
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Antarctic researchers have recorded a novel behavior in krill that may help regulate greenhouse gases. Antarctic krill, one of the largest animal resources on Earth, parachute into the deeper...
Deep Sea 3D To Debut On March 3rd
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Dive in beginning March 3rd when Deep Sea 3D debuts at select IMAX, IMAX 3D and IMAX Dome theatres. Through the magic of IMAX 3D technology, audiences will be transported below the ocean surface to...
Sensitive Deep Sea Coral Reefs Protected For The First Time In The Mediterranean
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Three ecologically-important deep sea areas have been protected off the waters of Italy, Cyprus and Egypt, following a recent decision by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean...
Lebanese Diver Saves Endangered Guitar Shark From Certain Death..
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The Sport Diver magazine - a National Geographic affiliate - featured, in its December issue, the story of a Lebanese diver who saved an endangered shark in Mauritius. Naji Cherabieh, a scuba diver...
History Channel Comes To Bonne Terre
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The two Marks and the rest of the crew from the History Channel's popular TV series "Weird U.S." have discovered Bonne Terre Mine. Show hosts Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman will be in Bonne...
Red Light-flashing Jellyfish Lures Prey
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The first deep sea red-light district -- glowing appendages on a newly discovered jellyfish relative -- appear to flash their come-hither message to lure prey.
Jellyfish and other types of sea...
BP Kongsberg Underwater Image Competition 2006
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As part of the 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, to be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 9 aˆ“ 14th July 2006, a flagship underwater image and video competition...
BP Kongsberg Underwater Image Competition 2006
MONTHLY CONTESTS
As part of the 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, to be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 9 aˆ“ 14th July 2006, a flagship underwater image and video competition...
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