World's first private icebreaker is launched:
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk By RYAN FAHEY£79.5m vessel with its own deep-sea submarine is available to charter for £665,000 per week after it was commissioned by Russian billionaire
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Underwater Exploration and Living
U-Boat Worx launches lightest submersible ever built
• https://newatlas.com by Paul RiddenDutch submersible maker U-Boat Worx has pumped out a number of underwater explorers since launching in 2005, and has now unveiled what's claimed to be the lightest manned submersible ever built.
Treasure Fever
• https://www.hakaimagazine.com, by Jill NeimarkThe discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.
Tesla Cybertruck 'Boat Mode' grants Elon Musk's amphibious car dreams in fan-made render
• TeslaratiA three-dimensional rendering of the Tesla Cybertruck floating in the ocean has emerged on Instagram showing a man in the truck's "vault", enjoying a day on the water in a futuristic car-boat.
Uber partners to launch scUber, the world's first rideshare submarine
• KelolandUber's newest rideshare option will take you down under ... to the Great Barrier Reef! Here's a look at "scUber." The company says its the world's very first rideshare submarine.
Great danger: Divers spot the world's largest ever recorded great white shark - 2.5 ton 'Dee
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk By George Martin-feasting on a dead whale in Hawaii and JUMP IN to take photos
China Has Radio Antenna to Talk to Submarines and It Covers Five Times Area of NY City
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangChina has built a giant radio antenna that uses five times the area of New York City. It will be used to communicate with submarines.
Kiev's Black Sea Provocation a Spying and Possible Belligerent Mission?
Stephen LendmanUkraine
Plan to find and explore Ocean Worlds and search for life
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangThe NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds (ROW) group has a plan for exploring the ocean worlds in our solar system.
Ancient Greek vessel found in Black Sea is world's oldest intact shipwreck
• https://newatlas.com by Ben CoxworthFor three years, an international team of scientists surveyed the floor of the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. Now, radiocarbon tests have confirmed that the remains of an ancient ship discovered late last year date from 400BC, officially makin
Google to string undersea cable from France to Virginia
• yahoo.com By APGoogle says it will string a trans-Atlantic cable from France to Virginia.
Student designs and builds underwater jetpack, aims to start production in 2019
• newatlas.com By Paul RiddenThe UK's Archie O'Brien had a dream of zipping below the waters off Iceland or swimming with dolphins off the coast of Bora Bora.
Amazing discovery on the seabed:
• foxnews.com By James RogersSpace treasure map leads to mysterious shipwreck site
The Race to Send Robots to Mine the Ocean Floor
• Wired.com by Eric NiilerWhen the 300-foot Maersk Launcher docked in San Diego early Monday morning, it unloaded a cargo of hardened black blobs scooped from the bottom of the sea.
The Story Behind $17 Billion Booty Found In 300-Year-Old "Holy Grail Of Shipwrecks"
• zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenDetails have finally emerged surround a 2015 discovery of a 300-year-old Spanish galleon which went down after a battle with British ships off the coast of Cartagena, Columbia - considered the "holy grail of shipwrecks."
Billionaire Paul Allen found the WW2 carrier Lexington
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangBillionaire-turned-explorer Paul Allen has discovered the missing wreck of the World War II carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) at the bottom of the Coral Sea.
The secret on the ocean floor
• http://www.bbc.co.ukA wave of pioneers is poised to scoop up treasure from the deep sea. But was this ocean mining boom sparked by a 1970s CIA plot? Mystery ship
Self-sailing drones set to explore the Southern Ocean
• newatlas.com By Ben CoxworthAustralian research group CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) will be using aquatic drones to explore the Southern Ocean.
Roadmap for Future Ocean Floor Mapping
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangAbout 71% of the Earth is covered by the World Ocean for which the bottom topography (bathymetry) is far less known than the surfaces of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and several planets' moons, including our own.
DIY Submarine Sinks in Denmark, Hobbyist Suspected of Killing Passenger
• https://motherboard.vice.com, Jason KoeblerAccording to multiple reports, the inventor of one of the world's largest DIY submarines is being held in Copenhagen on suspicion of "unlawful killing" charges after the sub sank off Denmark's coast, reportedly with a journalist inside.
China all electric rim-driven shaftless ultraquiet submarine propulsion
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangChina claims an all electric rim-driven pump-jet had been fitted to the People's Liberation Army Navy's newest nuclear submarines.
$200 Scorkl offers 10 minutes of underwater breathing
• newatlas.com by Mike HanlonScorkl enables you to breathe underwater for up to 10 minutes.
Russia Wants to Build an Enormous 'Winged' Submarine
• russia-insider.com by Kyle MizokamiThe submarine will be twice as long as a jumbo jet
China Is Building The World's Largest Nuclear Submarine Facility
• zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenPerhaps it is time to shift attention away from the "rally around the flag" diversion that is North Korea and pay some attention to China, which delighted by the ongoing geopolitical distractions is currently building the world's largest ..
Smarter batteries help U-Boat Worx dive deeper for longer
• newatlas.com by Scott CollieSaying a company is "plumbing new depths" isn't usually a compliment, but it's high praise for U-Boat Worx.
Want to Explore the Deep Sea? The Secret Is Sound
• Wired by Matt SimonNo place on this planet is more inhospitable to human life than the deep oceans.
Eelume - Reshaping Underwater Operations
• youtube.comEelume delivers intervention vehicles designed to live permanently under water. A cost saving and innovative technology for a greener and safer subsea future.
Canada investigates mysterious 'pinging' sound at bottom of sea in Arctic
• telegraph.co.uk by Chris GrahamCanada's military is investigating a mysterious "pinging" that is emanating from the sea floor in the Arctic.
New Microscope Lets Scientists See Living Corals Dancing Underwater
• http://www.popsci.com, By Mary Beth GriggsLooking at small scales in a big field
Shark Shield electrical forcefield fends off 90% of attacks
• gizmag.comSome pretty out-there ideas have been put forward to protect swimmers from sharks lurking in busy coastal waters.
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