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Saltwater Crocodiles surf Ocean Currents

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:21:39 +0000

With the exception of a Great White, or possibly an Oceanic White-tip (on a bad day), nothing terrifies me more than the prospect of meeting a 20ft (6m) Saltwater ‘Estuarine’ Crocodile...

New Gear 2010

shurford — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:34:02 +0000

This is an update to an earlier 2008 post about my previous SD equipment setup. Stepping up to HD So finally I took the step up to HD video equipment with the Sony PMW EX1, Gates EX1 housing with 2 x...

Deep Sea Cucumber: “jettisons internal organs from anus”

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:41:44 +0000

Unbelievable – nature’s defense strategies never cease to amaze… Photo by INDEX-SATAL/NOAA “A free-swimming sea cucumber moves through the freezing waters of a 10,515-foot...

Indonesia mimic octopus imitates toxic flatfish for defense

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:44:03 +0000

How about this for an impersonation… Watch video of the Indonesian Mimic Octopus impersonating a toxic flatfish – sometimes the best form of defense really is to attack! The Indonesian...

BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill effects

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:44:30 +0000

Now that the media hype surrounding the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill has largely died down, we think it would be of interest to track news & findings about the effects of this...

Returning to the Abyss

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:29:33 +0000

Ocean ‘X Factor’ to reach deepest point will net £6m. Fifty years ago today two men sealed themselves inside a tiny steel sphere and were lowered over the side of a ship in the Western...

Is there still time to save the seas?

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:55:20 +0000

The ocean is acidifying and coral reefs are dying. And it will only get worse until we rein in our emissions. [BB-films note: from time to time I think it's worth stepping back and thinking about how...

The truth about the Sardine Run

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:38:33 +0000

Having just bought my new Sony EX1 video camera, Green Force HID 250 lights and corresponding Gates housing I made up my mind to “break it in” with one of the underwater world’s...

Thank you President Toribiong (Palau)

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:40:09 +0000

President Johnson Toribiong of the tiny Pacific replublic of Palau is to create the world’s first “shark sanctuary”, banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters. With half of...

Gallery: Satellite view of Bahamas Ocean sands

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:17:20 +0000

Though you would be forgiven for thinking this picture a work of abstract art, it is actually a photograph of the Bahamas Ocean Sands captured by the Earth-orbiting Landsat 7 satellite. Ocean...