"All things we regard as the symbols of our world,...
...the highest mountains and furthest rain forests and deserts, steppes, coasts, all land animals and plants are in their mass much more insignificant than the almost endless expansion of the submarine ravines and mountains, the incomprehensible variety of organisms, which hides from our eyes under the surface of the oceans. This is the larger habitat on this planet"
Contact lenses instead of diving mask?
(11.02.2011) Without mask under water we would be visually impaired of 44diopters.The contactlens'U-Sea' ofthe company 'Holland & Dorider' is ableto compensate thiscondition in oder to be able to see underwater like a fish. Unfortunately only for 15 minutes, but still long enough for free divers, who don't have to equalize the mask anymore.
What is the worth of a reef shark?
(21.01.2012) Maybe this is the right approach: if we calculate the possible revenue of protected ocean zones and life and the costs of NOT protecting them we might have good arguments to act. Read the Google translated article on MARE online.
1984 MarineLab Habitat
(17.01.2011) Conceived in 1970, the MarineLab was originally called the MEDUSA (Midshipmen Engineered and Designed Underwater Studies Apparatus), and provided engineering design and project management experience for several hundred midshippmen over a ten year period. more...
(14.01.2011) Exactly the right thing for cold winter days. Watch Brian Skerry's Underwater Images and look forward to the summer. www.BrianSkerry.com
World Without Sun
(01.01.2012) Finally Online: The full-92'-length version of Jacques Cousteau's 'World Without Sun' showing all details of the Conshelf II underwater buildings. A beautiful document with many interesting information. Enjoy it!
Documentary about Guillaume Nery
(13.12.2011) The german state channel 'Deutsche Welle' has a very interesting documentary (in english) about the making of Guillaume Nery's video in its Media Center. In that exciting video the free diver jumps into Dean's Hole. The original video is available below.
Art of Tchaora
(01.12.2011) Cagdas Oralkan calls his beautiful artworks 'A Way To Communicate With Water'. The best and newest images are exhibited on his homepage.
UW-Station: Ballast-Experiment
(14.11.2011) To find outif it was possible to use asballastactuallyfor ourunderwaterstation you can analyzethe composition of thelocalsandandcalculatethedensity of the individualcomponentsand so come to the buoancy.Itried it inanother way...
(03.11.2011) Between 09. and 12.11.2011 Benjamin will be at the '3rd International Symposium on Occupational Scientific Diving of SDP' in Lecce/Italy for a lecture about 'GSM/GPS Diving Computer for underwater tracking and mapping'. more...
OS Projekt Underwater Station online again
(29.10.2011) After one year of techincal complications the open source project for building an underwater station is online again. 56.532 hits show us that there is a lot of attention for that subject. Visit the Google-translated Forum here...
Museo Subacuatico de Arte
(21.10.2011) This exciting underwater park is located before the mexican island Isla Mujeres near Cancun with hundreds of sculptures looking nearly photo-realistic. Watch the park's website here, and the one of the artist here.
Demonstration of pressure change in planes
(04.05.2011) For scuba divers it is recommended not to fly at least 24 hours after the latest dive. This photo shows why: the bottle was closed at maximum hight (ca. 10.000m = low pressure). After landing (higher pressure) the bottle shrinked about 20%. The changing cabin pressure is the reason why divers are facing a decompressin accident if they fly directly after a deep dive.
Underwater Hotel draft from Aqua Star
Another draft of an underwater hotel is available on the website of Aqua Star, a team that built an underwater motocycle some years ago. more...
Neptune Memorial Reef
The Neptune Memorial Reef is an awe-inspiring and affordable memorialization option that is a fitting alternative to traditional burial. An enduring habitat for marine life, the Reef is also a reaffirmation of life after life. more...
Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole
FREE FALL: World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean's Blue Hole, which is the world's deepest blue hole (underwater sinkhole) and plunges 202 metres (663 ft) to the ocean floor, in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas. Filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. This video is a FICTION and an ARTISTIC PROJECT. Edited by BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE - you make me feel.
Apnea Dive Computer
The current edition - March 2010 Vol.40 (1) - of the "Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine" journal has a report about the first Apnea Divecomputer. The article is named "A novel wearable apnea dive computer for continuous plethysmographic monitoring of oxygen saturation and heart rate". Here is the abstract:
(07.03.2010) An Oscar-winning movie in the Category Best Documentary to wake us up like Ric O'Barry, the man who once upon the time trained dolphins for serials like 'Flipper'. Nowadays he is busy with animal protection and he succeeded to film the mass murder of dolphins in the japanese bay of Taji. Help to avoid the slaughtering of millions of dolphins. More on www.thecovemovie.com.
Grumman/Piccard PX-15
(28.01.2010) The research vessel was designed to house a six-man crew for up to 30 days of oceanographic study in the depths of the Gulf Stream. NASA became involved, seeing this as an opportunity to study the effects of long-term, continuous close confinement, a useful simulation of long space flights.more...
Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
(18.12.2009) Until the end of 2009 all EU citizens will have the opportunity to give their vision of the common fishery policy. The subject deserves to spend some time on. More on the related EU-website.
Update 28.01.2010: Who ever receives news about any effects following this event is kindly reuested to report it to us. We hope it was not only a publicity gag of the EU.
Deep-Sea Gigantism
(15.11.2009) In zoology, deep-sea gigantism, also known as abyssal gigantism, is the tendency for species of crustaceans, invertebrates and other deep-sea-dwelling animals to display a larger size than their shallow-water counterparts. More on Wikipedia.
(21.01.2012) Maybe this is the right approach: if we calculate the possible revenue of protected ocean zones and life and the costs of NOT protecting them we might have good arguments to act. 
(14.01.2011) Exactly the right thing for cold winter days. Watch Brian Skerry's Underwater Images and look forward to the summer. 
(13.12.2011) The german state channel 'Deutsche Welle' has a very interesting 
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