Hosta la Vista, Nereus
Wood’s Hole’s Nereus was offloaded off the R/V Cape Hatteras today. Stood by to watch it get packed up. It was a tight fit with little room for error! The Nereus is a hybrid AUV/ROV that was just out to Cayman Rise where it was used to help discover new vents in the Caribbean! To ship [...]

With Twigs and an Animal Hide You To Can Build a Boat
Forget the megayacht of yesterday.  I am sure I can afford a megayacht timeshare…unless you can rent by the minute and I start saving now.  Despite my lack of cash, I do have access to some willow rods.  If I could just find the a large animal hide, I’d be set.  I guess it’s time [...]

Deepest Fish On Film
In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above,  Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found only in the Northwest Pacific between  6.1km to 7.5km deep. Now this same group filmed swarms of the snailfish Notoliparis kermadecensis nibbling at bait 7560 meters, the deepest for a locality [...]

Giant Stingray On Film
BBC videographers caught a giant stingray on film for the first time. The smalleye, shown in the video,  is the largest of all stingrays reaching wing widths of 2m.

Crazy Fish Heads
Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body length to capture carbs, shrimps, and small fishes.   This occurs through multiple structural novelties, as the video above can attest to, involving fundamentally reorganizing the way the bones and [...]