Massive Bloom of Brown Seaweed Heads Toward Florida and the Caribbean
such massive amounts of it, and how affected countries can predict the severity of the next influx.A biological hot spot at seaSargassum grows in the calm, clear waters of the Sargasso Sea – a 2 million-square-nautical-mile (5.2 million-square-kilometer) haven of biodiversity that lies east of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. Rather than beaches, it’s bounded by rotating ocean currents that form the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre.In the open ocean, islands of sargassum create a rich ecosystem that ocean explorer Sylvia Earle calls “a golden floating rainforest.” Suspended by
Divers Find Challenger Space Shuttle Wreckage Off Florida Coast
once again, to uplift the legacies of the seven pioneers we lost, and to reflect on how this tragedy changed us," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in the statement.The divers were exploring the sea floor off Florida earlier this year as part of a History Channel documentary called "The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters" about the swath of the Atlantic Ocean long subject to myths surrounding the supposed supernatural vanishing of planes and ships.They were looking for the wreckage of a PBM Martin Mariner Rescue Plane that disappeared without a trace on Dec. 5, 1945, while searching
Carderock Engineer Supports Stability Tests for Deep Submergence Vehicle
in the past. That helped us prepare solutions. The WHOI provided a large trove of useful documents, too, mainly of the vehicle’s history.”Bryden boarded the Research Vessel Atlantis, DSV Alvin’s support ship, on Oct. 14, 2021, and sailed with the WHOI crew from Massachusetts to Bermuda. During their time in Bermuda, he and his NAVSEA teammates worked closely with WHOI engineers on a quiet pier in Saint George’s Harbor.“The pier was protected from the ocean and was well away from the busier areas of Bermuda,” he said. “One challenge the crew did encounter
NOC Celebrates 25th Anniversary of First AUV Mission
AUV mission in Portland Harbor, Dorset – a three-day programm to demonstrate the transition of remote control autonomous operation with GPS and dead-reckoning navigation. A year later, the team and Autosub-1 were gathering oceanographic data off the Florida coast, and the following year off Bermuda. The inaugural mission was at the forefront of the scientific and technical credibility of autonomous underwater vehicles, and laid the foundations for the innovative global AUV operations and developments undertaken by the NOC team today.After 25 years of development and the launch of its Marine
Innovation @ URI: The smallest deep-sea system that can provide a livestream video feed
;At a depth of 350 meters, the system successfully transmitted live video throughout the cast, capturing footage of euphausiid shrimp, anemones, benthic fish, and other organisms and phenomena, including flashes of bioluminescence.The reel system was tested at a much greater depth in December of 2020 in Bermuda, reaching 780 meters. Like the previous tests, the system was deployed and retrieved without any issues."The results were better than I expected," Phillips said. "I never truly believed it would work because the system includes several components that have never been tried before
NOAA Predicts Active Atlantic Hurricane Season
The U.S. government on Thursday forecast an above-normal 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, which is already off to an early start with a storm expected to form off Bermuda this week.The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast between three and five major hurricanes, with sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour (178 kph), will form in 2021.Between six and 10 hurricanes with winds of at least 74 mph (119 kph) are expected out of 13-20 tropical storms in 2021, NOAA forecasters said. Tropical storms have winds of at least 39 mph (63 kph).The average for tropical cyclones
Teledyne Webb Research Hires Quinn, Goodrich
Management from Cornell University.Goodrich is tasked with providing customer support and training for users, creating and updating user documentation, piloting TWR gliders, and assisting in final test of new vehicles and beta testing of new Slocum hardware and software.Goodrich joins us from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) where she was a Glider Research Specialist managing the Mid-Atlantic Glider Initiative and Collaboration (MAGIC) Lab. She received her Bachelor of Mathematics from Washington College and a Master’s degree in Marine Studies from the University of Delaware
"An Epic Mission": Slocum Glider "Silbo" Circumnavigates the Atlantic Ocean
Silbo in less than 24 hours. Silbo’s fourth and final journey from St. Thomas began on July 18, 2019 and concluded on June 29, 2020 south of Martha’s Vineyard completing the final 6236 km trek in 348 days. During this transit Silbo spent three months flying a butterfly pattern south of Bermuda contributing data to Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS). Silbo then joined the Gulf Stream becoming the season’s first storm glider as Tropical Storm Arthur passed directly over the glider.In all, Silbo covered 22,744 km and spent roughly 1,273 days at sea.“An Epic mission!
BIOS: North Atlantic Carbon Sink Shrinking Due to Warming
of North Atlantic Ocean water masses has made it clear that the effects of a warming planet extend beyond biology—they impact the physics of ocean circulation, too. The research, recently published in Nature Climate Change, was conducted by scientists from the University of British Colombia, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), the French Institute for Ocean Science at the University of Brest, and the University of Southampton.One particular layer in the North Atlantic Ocean, a water mass called the North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water (STMW), represents around 20% of the entire carbon
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