After years of patient probing, oceanographers still have only the sketchiest notions about the shape of the drowned, undersea landscape that makes up 70% of the earth's crust.
When Ernest Shackleton's overland expedition failed, he set off on the most daring boat trip ever The Manfish The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau was a colorful, poetic, magical .
Instead of wires and pulleys or complicated stage effects to simulate the undersea life, she simply equips her fishy characters with wheelies, which enable them, when they rock .
Director James Cameron donates submersible to WHOI Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron has donated the Deepsea Challenger, the multi-million dollar undersea craft in which he descended to the deepest known part of the world's oceans last year, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He made the gift official Friday before a small gathering of invited media, members of the scientific research community, and students.
June 14, 2013 - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Apple plans music service, mobile software SAN FRANCISCO – Apple is switching from its decade-long practice of naming its Mac operating system updates after big cats. Instead, it’s paying homage to the geography of its home state. Apple software head Craig Federighi says the next version of Mac OS X will be called “Mavericks,” after an undersea rock formation that produces big waves near Half Moon Bay, Calif. The new operating system ...
June 13, 2013 - The Nashua Telegraph
The Country’s First Floating Wind Power Is Now Bobbing Off The Maine Coast Instead of performing the expensive and difficult task of undersea drilling to secure a wind turbine, why not just have it float? The U.S. has been slow to develop its offshore wind. Most of the action has been in Northern Europe, particularly in Denmark (which wants 50% of its electricity from wind by 2020), and the U.K. Yet, the American opportunity is vast. The Department of Energy estimates ...
June 11, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
Edward Markey in RTT News The oil industry and the government agency tasked with regulating them determined that there was a zero chance that this kind of undersea disaster could ever happen,he said. "When you believe that there is zero chance of a disaster...
Arthur Goldstuck in The Guardian Goldstuck added: "In the coming year operators will begin to leverage the combination of new undersea cable capacity and new fibre-optic networks to supply corporate clients and resellers with bigger, faster and more flexible capacity. Almost every...
Glenn in PR Newswire (press release) We're confident that any type of network can benefit from AFOX, from undersea cable systems to ultra long-haul terrestrial networks to metropolitan, local and wireless networks,said Glenn Wellbrock, director of backbone network design for...