Brian Skerry's Description of Right Whale Encounter:
2012 Tribute to Jacques Cousteau:
2012 Joe Romeiro White Shark:
BBC's Earth Flight New Series:
Randy Jordan of Emerald Charters found an airplane in 180 feet of water off Palm Beach Florida:
Experts there told Jordan that the submerged aircraft could be a Curtiss Helldiver SBC2. Some of those airplanes flew in the early 1940s during World War II.
So here we are. At the finish line. 10 month in the making. 7 minutes long. It has taken hundred of dives and thousands of takes. It has cost us a small fortune and most of our sanity. But it is done. We hope you enjoy it. We hope you get behind us. There is much yet to do. Please share it and please buy it. Sing it far and wide. This is our chance to sing for our oceans. The proceeds from the sale of the song will be given to the organisations shown @ 5:40.
From Blue Tube TV:
The ocean makes life on Earth possible, and it needs our help. Most people don't realize the long list of benefits the ocean provides us, nor how much we are connected and dependent on it. Just to name a few things; the ocean produces 70 to 80% of the oxygen we breath, generates $21 trillion in ecosystem services each year, and provides the main source of protein for 1/4 of the world's population. And these are just a few of the amazing functions it offers this planet's 6+billion people. In the past 50 years the health of the ocean has declined dramatically due to the major 5. That's right, the major 5, There are five serious threats that are causing this havoc; over fishing, pollution, invasive species, habitat destruction, and climate change. Actions must be taken to address these problems in order for the ocean to recover and become healthy once again. Come explore the ocean with us and find out how you can help.
Blue Tube TV Promo Trailer:
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Plastic Shores Trailer
Plastic Shores Trailer
A non-profit educational film about the effects of plastic debris on our marine ecosystem.
In the year 2010 global plastic production reached 300 million tonnes. A third of this was used in disposable packaging. In the United Kingdom, 3 million tonnes of plastic are thrown away every year, 1% of the total amount of all plastic manufactured on the planet.
But what happens to this plastic when it is thrown away? Most of it makes its way to landfill. Some goes to recycling or incineration. The rest escapes into our environment, and to the world's oceans…and nobody knows how long it will stay there. Estimates range from decades to hundreds of thousands of years.
'Plastic Shores' is a documentary that explores how plastic affects the marine environment. Travelling from the International Marine Debris Conference in Hawai'i to the polluted Blue Flag beaches of Cornwall, the film reveals just how bad the problem of plastic debris is and how it harms aquatic life. There is now not a single beach or sea in the world that is not affected by plastic pollution and the problem is only increasing.
Plastic Shores will be released mid-2012.
A non-profit educational film about the effects of plastic debris on our marine ecosystem.
In the year 2010 global plastic production reached 300 million tonnes. A third of this was used in disposable packaging. In the United Kingdom, 3 million tonnes of plastic are thrown away every year, 1% of the total amount of all plastic manufactured on the planet.
But what happens to this plastic when it is thrown away? Most of it makes its way to landfill. Some goes to recycling or incineration. The rest escapes into our environment, and to the world's oceans…and nobody knows how long it will stay there. Estimates range from decades to hundreds of thousands of years.
'Plastic Shores' is a documentary that explores how plastic affects the marine environment. Travelling from the International Marine Debris Conference in Hawai'i to the polluted Blue Flag beaches of Cornwall, the film reveals just how bad the problem of plastic debris is and how it harms aquatic life. There is now not a single beach or sea in the world that is not affected by plastic pollution and the problem is only increasing.
Plastic Shores will be released mid-2012.
60 Minutes
Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes:
Anderson Cooper takes viewers on an underwater adventure to one of the world's most vibrant coral reefs, an anomaly at a time when many of the world's reefs are in danger - or already dead.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7392092n#ixzz1hlUCIdpG
Anderson Cooper takes viewers on an underwater adventure to one of the world's most vibrant coral reefs, an anomaly at a time when many of the world's reefs are in danger - or already dead.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7392092n#ixzz1hlUCIdpG
Thursday, November 17, 2011
North Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
BlueFin Tuna Bait Ball: National Geo.:
Catching GinatTuna National Geographjic:
Wall Street Journal Reports:
Paul Watson on NABFT:
Record Sale: $396,000:
All-Time Record:
CBS News: NOAA:
Catching GinatTuna National Geographjic:
Wall Street Journal Reports:
Paul Watson on NABFT:
Record Sale: $396,000:
All-Time Record:
CBS News: NOAA:
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Neptune Canada's Channel
Grotto Hydrothermal Vent in 2 Minutes:
March of the Sea Pigs:
Water Column Creatures:
School of Sunfish:
Deep Sea Octopus:
Batman of the Deep:
Brittle Star Food Fight:
Videos from the sea-floor: underwater life, technology, exploration and research in the northeast Pacific Ocean near Canada's Vancouver Island.
ABOUT US
As part of Ocean Networks Canada, we are building the worlds first regional-scale underwater cabled ocean network that plugs directly into the Internet. People everywherecan surf the seafloor, while ocean scientists run deep-water experiments from labs and universities anywhere around the world.
March of the Sea Pigs:
Water Column Creatures:
School of Sunfish:
Deep Sea Octopus:
Batman of the Deep:
Brittle Star Food Fight:
Videos from the sea-floor: underwater life, technology, exploration and research in the northeast Pacific Ocean near Canada's Vancouver Island.
ABOUT US
As part of Ocean Networks Canada, we are building the worlds first regional-scale underwater cabled ocean network that plugs directly into the Internet. People everywherecan surf the seafloor, while ocean scientists run deep-water experiments from labs and universities anywhere around the world.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Deep Sea News' Dr. M & Miriam Swim the Largest Tank!
Marine biologists and Deep Sea News bloggers Miriam Goldstein and Dr. Craig McClain SCUBA diving in the Ocean Voyager exhibit at Georgia Aquarium:
Starlings in Amazing Flight
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive:
From Wired Science:
Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands.
What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.
Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.
At the individual level, the rules guiding this are relatively simple. When a neighbor moves, so do you. Depending on the flock’s size and speed and its members’ flight physiologies, the large-scale pattern changes. What’s complicated, or at least unknown, is how criticality is created and maintained.
It’s easy for a starling to turn when its neighbor turns — but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds? That remains to be discovered, and the implications extend beyond birds. Starlings may simply be the most visible and beautiful example of a biological criticality that also seems to operate in proteins and neurons, hinting at universal principles yet to be understood.
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
From Wired Science:
Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands.
What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.
Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.
At the individual level, the rules guiding this are relatively simple. When a neighbor moves, so do you. Depending on the flock’s size and speed and its members’ flight physiologies, the large-scale pattern changes. What’s complicated, or at least unknown, is how criticality is created and maintained.
It’s easy for a starling to turn when its neighbor turns — but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds? That remains to be discovered, and the implications extend beyond birds. Starlings may simply be the most visible and beautiful example of a biological criticality that also seems to operate in proteins and neurons, hinting at universal principles yet to be understood.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
National Geographic Capturing Bioluminescence & MBARI's Selections!
MBARI's Locomotion in the Deep:
MBARI's California Hydrothermal Vents:
MBARI's Eerie Critters of the Deep
MBARI'sAnthology of Deep Sea Squids:
MBARI's Vampire Squid:
Macropinna:
MBARI's Humboldt Squid:
Sunday, April 17, 2011
The Art of the Depths: Bioluminescent Jellyfish
Great art is inspired by great things. And the Museum of Fine Arts obtains only great art (hence the "Fine"). The latest exhibit at the MFA is a collection of works by the glassblower Dale Chihuly, whose multicolored renderings are nothing short of psychedelic. Some of his most beautiful art is inspired by the bioluminescent jellyfish that light up the otherwise dark and murky lower seas
So we've established that these jellyfish are beautiful. (For more amazing pictures, check out the articleby Environmental Graffiti).
But what is this amazing display all about?
Environmental Graffiti offers four reasons for the bioluminescense of deep sea jellyfish. Firstly, small creatures-- little fish-- see the light and are amazed. Enthralled, as was Mr. Chihuly. So they approach the gently undulating jellyfish and before they know it they are stung and eaten.
Secondly, creating one's own light can prevent one from being seen. If a jellyfish (probably in the mesopelagic region where some sunlight indeed penetrates) is seen from below and is giving off its own light, this light can easily be confused as simple natural light...the jellyfish's invisibility cloak.
Third, bioluminescence can be a scare tactic. Jellyfishfacts.net affirms this in their article on bioluminescent jellyfish. When touched, a jellyfish immediately lights up, to create confusion (not unlike a squid's inking)--this is the result of an instantaneous chemical reaction that occurs with direct stimulation. Furthermore, the potentially dangerous critter who encounters a lit jellyfish will become, as it were, self conscious, and will try, as it were, to step out of the spotlight--for such predators are themselves prey. They'd rather slink around in the dark than be seen. So they flee the scene.
Finally, bioluminescent jellyfish utilize their lighting up to communicate with other jellyfish. It is interesting to note that jellyfish are eyeless. Thus, the light is entirely functional--not recreational. But I take that's a given.
Now for the process of biolumination: luciferinase oxidizes luciferin, with a bluish photoprotein being the result. In 1961, however, the GFP, or green florescent protein was discovered in the jellyfish aequorea victoria, native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America. According to an article published by the University of Washington, this GFP has been cloned and extensively studied in labs since its discovery fifty years ago.
In fact, we forgot to mention the fifth function of bioluminescense in jellyfish: beauty for human consumption. Enjoy the video:
So we've established that these jellyfish are beautiful. (For more amazing pictures, check out the articleby Environmental Graffiti).
But what is this amazing display all about?
Environmental Graffiti offers four reasons for the bioluminescense of deep sea jellyfish. Firstly, small creatures-- little fish-- see the light and are amazed. Enthralled, as was Mr. Chihuly. So they approach the gently undulating jellyfish and before they know it they are stung and eaten.
Secondly, creating one's own light can prevent one from being seen. If a jellyfish (probably in the mesopelagic region where some sunlight indeed penetrates) is seen from below and is giving off its own light, this light can easily be confused as simple natural light...the jellyfish's invisibility cloak.
Third, bioluminescence can be a scare tactic. Jellyfishfacts.net affirms this in their article on bioluminescent jellyfish. When touched, a jellyfish immediately lights up, to create confusion (not unlike a squid's inking)--this is the result of an instantaneous chemical reaction that occurs with direct stimulation. Furthermore, the potentially dangerous critter who encounters a lit jellyfish will become, as it were, self conscious, and will try, as it were, to step out of the spotlight--for such predators are themselves prey. They'd rather slink around in the dark than be seen. So they flee the scene.
Finally, bioluminescent jellyfish utilize their lighting up to communicate with other jellyfish. It is interesting to note that jellyfish are eyeless. Thus, the light is entirely functional--not recreational. But I take that's a given.
Now for the process of biolumination: luciferinase oxidizes luciferin, with a bluish photoprotein being the result. In 1961, however, the GFP, or green florescent protein was discovered in the jellyfish aequorea victoria, native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America. According to an article published by the University of Washington, this GFP has been cloned and extensively studied in labs since its discovery fifty years ago.
In fact, we forgot to mention the fifth function of bioluminescense in jellyfish: beauty for human consumption. Enjoy the video:
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