Titanic 100: New CGI of How Titanic Sank

Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron : SUN APR 8 at 8P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ James Cameron and his team pull together a new CGI of how they believe the TItanic sank and reached the ocean floor. LINK: Youtube

Watch Brine Icicle form at the Bottom of the Sea

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Scientists in Antarctica used a time-lapse camera to capture the formation of a brinicle — an icicle made from brine. As the salty water sank, it froze, forming a spike of brine down to the seafloor. As it grew over several hours, the brinicle killed everything in its path, including numerous unlucky starfish.

Link -Via: Geekosystem | Via: Neatorama

Views from the water in Minot, North Dakota

A boat ride into some of the hardest hit areas in Minot, North Dakota reveals severe flooding devastation. Street signs are almost completely underwater in some areas, in others garages are floating above their foundations. The smell of diesel fuel is in the air. Provided by 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs. LINK: Youtube

Dive Down to the Underwater Bubble Room

2 brother make a underwater bubble room
The Bubble Room is an amazing, clear, underwater dome about 15 feet below the surface of Lake Tahoe. LINK

Attenborough: Bubble Blowing Salt Water Crocodiles - Life in Cold Blood - BBC wildlife

Sir David Attenborough presents this epic wildlife documentary, exploring the world of cold blooded animals. Watch this underwater video to see the surprisingly gentle bubble-blowing courtship of the feared cold blooded killers, Salt Water Crocodiles. Brilliant high quality images from BBC natural history masterpiece, Life in Cold Blood. LINK: Youtube

UNDERWATER BASE JUMPING

FREE FALL: World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. Edited my BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE - you make me feel. LINK: Youtube

Underwater Art Museum

A museum is under construction off the coast of Cancun. By the end of the year, divers may be able to visit four hundred sculptures in a maritime park:

The cement sculpture, called ‘The Collector’, shows a figure who records bottled treasures in logbooks. It weighs four tonnes and is anchored 26 feet under the sea. Divers watch a yellowtail damselfish nibble on algae growing from the sculpture’s pant leg, which its creators hope will eventually sprout colourful coral.

About 400 life-size casts will be submerged off the resort of Cancun by the end of 2010. It is hoped that the low-acidity cement figures, designed to be anti-corrosive and mimic rock, will be transformed over time into artificial reefs. Some will be in shallow waters for snorkellers to enjoy.[...]

“The park managers were looking for an alternative to manage the tourists. The idea was to concentrate everyone in one place,” said de Caires Taylor, who has also built an underwater sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies.

The 400 figures, weighing 180 tonnes in total and to be named ‘Silent Evolution’, will be submerged in a barren, flat expanse of the park, which lies between Cancun and nearby islands.

Link | Photo: Reuters, Via: Neatorama

Underwater Church Reappears

“You might call it an act of God. A severe drought in Venezuela has exposed a church — pictured in 2008 and on February 21, 2010 — that had been inundated when a hydroelectric dam was built in 1985. The 82-foot-tall church and the Andean town of Potosi were flooded to establish the Uribante-Caparo water reservoir to power the plant, which is currently operating at just 7 percent of its capacity, according to the Reuters service. The church is now an ominous symbol of energy shortages in the country.” w/ photos. || LINK

Photos of a day-glo, underwater world

The Dyche Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas has this almost hidden little room in the basement where you can go in, close a curtain, flip on a blacklight and watch as a collection of seemingly ordinary rocks light up with a fluorescent glow. This series of images, taken by photographer Louise Murray, reminds me of how much I like that room at the Dyche. Only, instead of rocks, Murray snaps photos of coral, fish and other sea creatures, using a portable blue light.

The Telegraph: Slideshow—The hidden fluorescent colours of the oceans
(Via: Maria Popova, Via: Boingboing)

Mexico's Underwater River

Diver Anatoly Beloshchin shot this footage in an underwater cavern at Cenote Angelita, Mexico. The illusion of a river is most commonly attributed to a layer of hydrogen sulfide. LINK: Neatorama, Via: Youtube

Underwater Volcanic Eruption On Film

Scientists witnessed the eruption of the deepest underwater volcano and caught the entire event on film for the first time - complete with molten lava and sulfur smoke clouds.

The volcanic eruption was filmed by a U.S. robotic submarine more than 1.2 kilometers (4,000 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Samoa during an expedition in May this year. Scientists have been trying for 25 years to witness an underwater volcanic eruption, but this is the first time it has ever been caught on film. LINK: The Presurfer

Attenborough - Anaconda gives birth underwater

On the marshes of Northern Argentina, Sir David Attenborough presents the birth of one of the largest snakes on the planet, the Anaconda. Brilliant wildlife video from Sir David Attenborough's natural history masterpiece, Life in Cold Blood. LINK: Youtube

Most Impressive Explosions of Lava

Pillow Lava are formed when lava congeals underwater, forming a solid rock that resembles a fluffy pillow, hence the name pillow lava. When the lava comes into contact with the temperature change, it immediately forms a skin around it, while the inside cools slowly to produce a finer grained structure. LINK

"AMAZING UNDERWATER PILLOW LAVA - Volcano Kilauea" LINK


Lava is an underground marvel that is a living, geological remnant from an active earth. They shed light on Earth's past, and they provide us with a path for the future.

Go Underwater with Google Earth

What Google Earth did for mapping the Earth they now plan to do for the Earth’s oceans. Launched February 2, Ocean in Google Earth will allow users to navigate underwater without a snorkel, exploring shipwrecks, algal blooms, maps of tiny phytoplankton, even the homes of the jaunty nudibranchs. Within the layers, users can check out multimedia features that combine data and maps with videos, quizzes and other interactives, as well as photos from National Geographic. The idea for Google Ocean came about after Google Geo Products director John Hanke had a conversation a few years ago with NatGeo explorer-in-residence Sylvia Earle, marine biologist and tireless champion of the ocean and its inhabitants. She told John when he was working on Google Earth: "I hope someday, John, you’ll finish [Google Earth]. You’ve done a great job with the dirt, but there’s all that water out there– the world is blue."

In addition to National Geographic, several well-known marine institutions such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Scripps, and Woods Hole have contributed data.

Link, Via: Neatorama

Underwater Gems

Francis Tan, aka Coppertane on Flickr, has graciously shared with us some of his unbelievable underwater discoveries: