Oceans of Opportunity

Tag: underwater living

Slip us a few ones and we’ll show you…

https://onetoday.google.com/p/w5-gknjq?c=5452315131641856 A whole lot more of this: Portable inflatable habitat enabling extended human exploration deep within the mesophotic realm. Project supported by Subsalve USA and the National Geographic Society’s Waitt Grants Program. We’re grinding out finding new life of the aquatic type each and every day, largely in part to ongoing public support. New frontiers…

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Classroom Under the Sea | Diving In

It’s rare that I take to any degree of advocacy for others’ projects – not because they aren’t worth supporting, but rather in the competitive little world we live in, it just gets harder and harder to stand out on your own, let alone when spreading the attention thin. In this case however, ‘Classroom Under…

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Atlantis is Rising

Surely that post title caught your attention – and no, its not some propagandist hoax from the back of a tabloid. This is the real deal. The site, www.spiritscience.net recently released a piece describing 5 beautiful underwater cities – and these do indeed exist, or at least what remains of these cities that were once swallowed…

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the consumer machine, mass conformity, and a new lfie in the sea

My weekend started with a task not too foreign to me in recent years – filling a 10 yard dumpster outside of my middle-class suburban home as we get the ball rolling with a basement renovation project. I asked myself, yet again, “where does all the garbage go?” Now, I certainly do not pretend to have…

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Rising Seas – where should we go?

The September 2013 issue of National Geographic Magazine includes a beautifully developed and presented feature about ‘Rising Seas’ – the imminent threat of sea-level rise due to a variety of factors. The cover page includes a series of questions addressed in the article which read as follows: 1. What will we protect? 2. What will…

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an underwater workforce

On a near daily basis, I end up engaged in inquisitive dialogue about my line of work as an undersea professional. My sense of normalcy is apparently a ‘wet’ dream for numerous others. While its far from all fun and games, the allure of the underwater world is indeed what keeps me motivated to explore its…

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bumps, bruises, & the bends

Working dives are hard. There’s no way around it. Most often, the tasks we carry out are not with surgical precision – they are with a crowbar. Working divers are they themselves tools of the trade. Much like an ROV that is sent on a  dive equipped to carry out a task, the diver is…

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no more brick and mortar – bigger isn’t always better

A colleague recently shared an article with me that describes a new concept of inflatable additions for the space station or other space habitats. Idea simply being that one can pack all of the essential mission-critical infrastructure into a smaller package, then ‘inflate’ once on site to have a reasonably sized bubble to live and…

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a new world view from the ‘bottom up’

Several year ago, I stumbled on an article by an MIT student that discussed the concept of ‘underwater camping’ – the simple ability to make a foray into the ocean, and stay for awhile. It was a compelling idea. My interests in ocean exploration have always leaned heavily on improving human intervention – advanced diving…

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an in between era using in between technology

I recently returned from the field, working in a remote stretch of the Exumas, Bahamas – where I consider my home away from home. The objective? Deploy an experimental undersea habitat that, if successful, would provide for unsurpassed wet diving access to the lower limits of mesophotic coral ecosystems. As it happens, the deployment went off…

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