Expedition Directory -
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bermuda: search for deep water caves 2009 | Deep-water marine caves are one of the Earth\'s last largely unexplored frontiers of undiscovered fauna (animal life). More than 150 limestone caves are known to exist in or near the island of Bermuda... |
| Duration : Sep 2009 - Sep 2009 |
dive and discover: expedition 13 gulf of mexico | On April 20, 2010, the oil-drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. The well it was drilling continued to gush oil for nearly three months, eventually causing one of the... |
| Duration : Dec 2010 - Dec 2010 |
expedition to the phoenix islands protected area | Join an international team of scientists, divers, photographers and officials heading to the Phoenix Islands, a remote archipelago of coral islands in the equatorial Pacific, on a 3-week research miss... |
| Duration : Not Available |
| Duration : Mar 2009 - Mar 2009 |
bioluminescence 2009: | Sudden blue flashes . . . Shooting beams of red light . . . An eerie green glow. These are just some of the surreal displays created by deep-sea animals that are bioluminescent, which means they can c... |
| Duration : Jul 2009 - Jul 2009 |
| Duration : Aug 2009 - Sep 2009 |
dive and discover: expedition 12 south atlantic | For years, ocean scientists have dreamt about sending small fleets of underwater robots to explore the ocean depths. But the ocean presents formidable obstacles to navigating and communicating with ro... |
| Duration : Not Available |
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Online Tool Serves Up Ocean Science Studies
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Updates to BOEM's Environmental Studies Program Information System (ESPIS) tool, hosted by NOAA Digital Coast, now enable users to search, filter, map, discover, and download more than 40 years of studies and related data that can... |
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What's the diving like around the UK?
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The UK has some fabulous diving in her seas, not least on the hundreds of wrecks. There is also beautiful marine life and at times stunning visibility. Discover the secret dives of Britain. ... |
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Diving Madagascar: is it any good?
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Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, hosts one of the world's longest continuous coral reefs. The country is famous for her unique land animals, but her seas are also full of life not found anywhere else. And she doesn't... |
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Small 'Underwater Pompeii' Found Off Greek Island
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Remains of an ancient settlement, complete with a ruined pottery workshop, have been found on the bottom of the Aegean sea off the small island of Delos, the Greek ministry of culture has announced. Dubbed by the Greek media “a ... |
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Technology Enables Historic Finds
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An endeavor to employ a suite of oceanographic research instruments to find downed World War II aircraft and the remains of troops listed as missing in action for nearly 70 years are the subject of a film by camera maker GoPro and... |
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Around the Pier
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Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has always had a dream of catching science up to the speed of communication.
“Nowadays, how fast is communication happening? In... |
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Weird Green 'Eggs' Wash Up on Sydney Beach: Photos
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Australian beachgoers got a surprise this week when strange balls of living green algae started washing up on Dee Why beach in Sydney. “I did poke it with my toes and it’s squishy, like a sponge,” Surf Life Saving Club patro... |
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