Category: Ocean Education
two of my favorite things
National Geographic’s recent ‘Naked Science’ episode on cities under the sea touched on two of my favorite things…Lego’s and diving! Colleagues and explorers Dennis Chamberland and Lloyd Godson were featured in the episode, as they are making huge strides in exploration, making a frontier push, and redefining the social and psychological limitations of humans as…
Read Morean Earth-like Evolution
Are we alone? The question of all questions, of all civilizations, and of all time. The fact that we have such high biological and chemical diversity here on Earth, would lead one to believe that there are no exacting replicates of us, or even of our biosphere out there on another planet or inhabitable moon,…
Read Moreone shark, two sharks, red shark, blue shark…
Within just minutes of dumping a shot of secret sauce (mackerel oil) overboard to add to our chum slick, the first blue shark made a pass by the boat to say hello. And I can assure you, they were much more prepared for us this past weekend, than we were for them… The two hour…
Read MoreJAWS celebrates 35 years!
Thirty-five years ago, this very weekend, Steven Spielberg brought fear, panic, and mass hysteria to beaches worldwide. While the film JAWS was unquestionably remarkable for its time and included a number of industry firsts in the area of production and special effects, it marked a terrible turn for humans’ appreciation and conservation of sharks worldwide.…
Read Moreno match for Mother Nature
This weekend, I spent my would-be leisurely weekend off responding to a vessel emergency off of Brenton Reef in Newport, RI where a vessel was abandoned before smashing up onto the shallow rocks that make up the reef. Fortunately there were no injuries, however partaking in the salvage of the vessel, I was once again cleary reminded…
Read MoreHappy 100th Birthday Jacques Cousteau!
Born June 11th, 1910, Jacques Cousteau embarked on a lifetime intertwined with the sea. His “The Silent World” hit movie screens around the world in 1956, making his name iconic as history’s most prolific ambassador of the oceans. Cousteau’s career included over 120 television documentaries, 50 books, the 300,000 member foundation the Cousteau Society, and…
Read MoreDisney Oceans | coming this Earth Day
This Thursday, April 22, is Earth Day. When I look at Earth from above, its somewhat ironic that I don’t see much ‘Earth’ at all – I see Ocean. This truly is our Blue Planet. This year, Disney Nature is helping us all with this realization, by releasing a new film ‘Oceans’ in theaters around…
Read MoreLEGOLAND® underwater record
G’day mate”…Australian Explorer Lloyd Godson is at it again, making waves in the realm of undersea habitation. In the past 50 or so years since the concept was really addressed from a practical standpoint, Lloyd is among the very few who have taken the incremental approach to ‘living on the edge’ and bringing it to…
Read MoreRebreather Workshop Proceedings | on DVD
On January 23rd, I organized the ‘2010 Northeast Rebreather & Advanced Diving Technology Workshop’, which was hosted at the University of Rhode Island. The reasons for doing so were partly personal interest, and mostly because we are at a marquee time in advancing human intervention of the sea. In my introductory remarks, I refer to…
Read MoreNASA | BEST: Living on the Moon
This illustrated video from NASA is BY FAR the best representation of considerations to be taken for life on the moon, or elsewhere for that matter. Amazingly, when boiled down, it really is that simple. From time to time, revisiting this simplicity helps keep things in perspective for us brainiac engineers and life system technicians.…
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