Underwater

Gadgets

How To Film A Great White Shark With Your iPhone

3:00PM December 15, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

A lot of Kickstarter projects are launched with little more than an idea and a mockup, but the tentatively named FourPro iPhone underwater housing was field tested while filming great white sharks. So I think it’s already proven itself. More »


Science

5 Breathtaking Underwater Videos Made By Robots

4:15AM October 1, 2011 | Kristen Philipkoski

Every year, the US government gives scientists money that they use for amazingly cool things, like building robots that dive to extreme underwater depth and record video like this.

Thanks to funding from taxpayers and philanthropists (and, of course the internet, which come to think of it also launched as a government program), you can sit on your couch in your underwear and watch magma flow deep under the sea. More »


Geek Out

A Personal Submarine You Can Rent On Holiday

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10:35AM August 31, 2011 | Alex Kidman

It sounds like an incredibly easy way to get onto ASIO’s watch list, but a Dutch company is offering something a little different to the regular, run of the mill boat hire options. They’ll rent you a two or three person submersible for “Global Charter”. More »


Geek Out

You Can Now Rent Sir Richard Branson’s Flying Submarine

12:00PM August 30, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Why should James Bond be the only one with a swanky aero sub? If you’ve got the cash, Sir Richard Branson is more than happy to lend you his for the day. More »


Geek Out

Why Is There An Art Exhibition At The Bottom Of The Ocean?

7:00PM August 11, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Have we run out of gallery space on dry land? Or was the temptation to attach waterproof works of art to the Vandenberg military ship off Florida’s Key West just too strong for Austrian artist/diver Andreas Franke? More »


Science

Godzilla-Maru Deep Sea Drill Pokes The Ocean’s Deepest Holes

1:30AM July 13, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

If Land of the Lost taught me anything, it’s that cool things lurk just below the surface of the earth (and Will Ferrel is the greatest actor of his generation). That’s where the Chikyu Hakken Deep Sea Drill comes in. More »


Science

Never-Before-Seen 3D Photos Of The Titanic Surface

3:20AM July 6, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Last year, a team of scientists set out on an expedition to examine the Titanic wreckage. The photographs were revealed in court last week to be the highest-quality of their kind ever taken. More »


Science

Fly-By-Wire Seafloor Drill Works 10,000 Leagues Under The Sea

1:30AM July 1, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Traditional deep sea drilling rigs are bulky, expensive, and need a relatively stable platform to operate, so they can’t work in rough weather. These next-generation drill systems, however, bypass the problem completely by setting up shop on the seafloor. More »


Science

Underwater Laser Microphones Listen To The Sea

5:40AM June 25, 2011 | Esther Inglis-Arkell

Scientists have come up with a super-sensitive microphone that works underwater. What did it take? The same thing it takes to accomplish anything worth doing: lasers. More »


Cars

A Hilarious Two-Seat Underwater Scooter

10:00PM April 30, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Okay, so maybe the AS-2 scooter looks like an elaborate Japanese Bubblebee costume, but it could be great for underwater moped rides for two. More »