Abundant Life Found on Seamounts Off Chile’s Coast
that the Nazca-Desventuradas and Juan Fernández Marine Parks effectively protect delicate marine habitats.”A second expedition along the Salas y Gomez Ridge will begin aboard research vessel Falkor (too) on February 24. Underwater dives will be livestreamed on Schmidt Ocean Institute's YouTube channel as scientists explore areas deeper than 600 meters for the first time. Schmidt Ocean Institute will be operating in the Southeast Pacific, exploring the waters off Peru and Chile throughout 2024.“Full species identification can take many years, and Dr. Sellanas and his team have an
Indian Fishermen Use Smartphones to Map a Vanishing Way of Life
laptop and pulled up the GIS software he uses to map hundreds of villages in his area, cross-checking the sites designated by fishermen such as Raji against satellite images of the entire area.Saravanan said he learned how to use the software from a friend who had studied software engineering and from YouTube.Next he recruited statewide volunteers to map the land.“The technology is the same [as what the government uses] ... it’s just that they don’t do it and we do,” he said.Given that mobile phones only came to Gunankuppam in 2006, the rapid takeup of mapping apps seems all the
How Will the Fukushima Water Release Impact the Pacific Ocean?
should defer the impending discharge.While we are sympathetic to the view that the scientific data could be improved, our assessment is the panel is unfairly critical of ocean release.The main thing missing from the report is a sense of perspective. The public seminar from the expert panel, available on YouTube, presents only a portion of the context we provide above. Existing tritium in the ocean isn’t discussed, and the dominance of potassium is glossed over.The most reasonable comments regard the performance of ALPS. This is largely in the context of strontium-90 and cesium-137, both of which
OOI‘s Pioneer Array Relocating to Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight
. Plueddemann will discuss the Pioneer Array infrastructure, instrumentation, and what is planned for its upcoming move off the North Carolina coast. The event is free and open to the public. For those unable to attend, the program will be live-streamed, as well as archived for later viewing, on the CSI YouTube Channel.Offshore conditions can be brutal for moorings that remain in the water for six-month deployments. The new location for the OOI’s Coastal Pioneer Array is designed to withstand treacherous conditions, including extreme storms. Credit: ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutio
Rare Footage of Titanic Wreckage Released
. Most of it has not been previously released to the public.Since the discovery, several documentaries about the Titanic have showed footage of the wreckage scene. Some brief clips of the original dives have been aired, but Wednesday will see the release of a longer 80-minute video of uncut footage on YouTube.The release of the footage "marks the first time humans set eyes on the ill-fated ship since 1912 and includes many other iconic scenes," the WHOI said.The Titanic, thought to be nearly impregnable when it was built, was the largest ocean liner in service at the time. It struck an iceberg
Reader Feedback: Lander Lab - Buoyancy
;https://www.rcshipyard.com/tech/#7> for some creative approaches to model submarine ballast and trim systems using small compressed air pumps and flasks. A USN training film (1955) discusses the placement and operation of ballast tanks in a diesel-electric submarine. Two fins up! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvI4bFAiwZY).EQUIVALENT SPECIFIC GRAVITY In a conversation with Phil Zerofski, Marine Technician at Scripps Institution, the question of an apples-to-apples comparison between the densities of hollow glass flotation spheres and syntactic foam came up, what we might call “equivalent
OE’s 2021 Top of the Festive YouTube Video Pops
No year is the same without the annual corporate festive YouTube videos. And while the pandemic is yet again trying to do its best to ruin our holidays, offshore companies have still provided us with a crop of Christmas cheer.Oceaneering, again, tops our Top of the Festive Pops. It seems that having a theme park business side-line supports pretty neat 3D animations. However, neat tools are no good without a bit of imagination and again Oceaneering steers a nice course between showing off company capabilities, across subsea, space, theme parks, and automation, while also having a bit of festive fun.
OTC & Offshore Innovation: From Sarajevo with L(ament)ove
on the technology developments, and to meet the people behind the tech face-to-face, over a beer (or two)! The OE crew will be in Houston this year, so stop by booth #2726 to pitch your story threads to Greg and the OE team. For myself, I’ll borrow the outro line from seemingly everyone on YouTube: “I’ll catch you guys in the next one!”But before I go, there’s something else you need to know (this is actually what you need to know, really!)For each edition of the event, winners of the prestigious OTC Spotlight on New Technology Award are announced. This year is no
Fiber Optic Sensing and Mining an Ocean of Data
continents are a multitude of cables – some 120 million km of them. Some are pretty old (the first international submarine cable was laid across the Channel, between the UK and France, in 1850). But many laid since the 1980s contain fibre optics and provide the conduits for everything from those YouTube cat videos to stock market data.An increasing number of researchers are now hoping that they can also use these cables to create a global sensing network that could tell us a lot more about the earth – and much else besides – using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS).DAS involves using
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