A Loverly Bunch of Coconuts
The co-world-record holder for the deepest dive in a submersible reports on a recent expedition to... Read More
'Just a Longer Day at the Office'
In January 1960, he and French copilot Jacques Piccard navigated the U.S. Navy's bathyscaph... Read More
Oceans: A Voyage to the Real North Pole
The North Pole became accessible to ordinary tourists in 1991 through the use of nuclear-powered... Read More
Oceans: Fresh Water from the Oceans—Feasible but Expensive
Ocean water can and will be used to replace diminishing terrestrial sources of fresh water. With... Read More
Oceans: Not Your Ordinary Submersible
Manned submersibles are vertical probes where mission times rarely exceed 12 to 14 hours and... Read More
Oceans: Icebreakers—A Dying Breed?
While the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet, ice conditions there as... Read More
Oceans: Illegal Aliens in Our Waters
There is a huge illegal immigrant problem in this country and it doesn't involve human beings.... Read More
Those Stout Manitowoc Boats
Inside a submarine at test depth in the predawn Bering Sea is no place to be wondering what just... Read More
Oceans: Burp the Ocean
In many places throughout the world there is a remarkable new source of energy—methane gas (... Read More
Oceans: Ice: An Identification Sampler
During their seagoing careers, most mariners will never see ice and even fewer will have to... Read More
Oceans: Doing the Impossible
A difficult or near-impossible task is sometimes described as "trying to count the fish in the... Read More
Oceans: End of the Line
On 6 March 2009, an era in Navy undersea operations ended when the Deep Submersible Rescue Vehicle... Read More
Oceans: Flying Underwater
For nearly 50 years, conventional manned deep submersibles have operated on the principle of a free... Read More
Oceans: Nereus Explores the Oceans' Greatest Depth
On 31 May 2009, the deepest place in the world ocean was visited by the new hybrid unmanned... Read More
Oceans: The Dragon Learns to Dive
In August 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) began sea trials with its newly... Read More
Oceans: A Dive to the Bottom of the Sea . . . 50 Years Later
On 23 January 1960 the Navy's Bathyscaph Trieste dove to the deepest place in the world's... Read More
Oceans: Fire and Ice
In the past few years the question of who owns the Arctic Ocean has become the subject of much... Read More
Oceans: A Historic Atlantic Crossing-Undersea and Unmanned
When Christopher Columbus came upon the New World in 1492, his historic crossing of the Atlantic... Read More
Oceans: Troubled Waters: Oil Spills and the Big Picture
In the face of the current ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it is important to remember:... Read More
Oceans: Hidden Under the Sea: the Earth's Greatest Mountain Range
The seafloor mid-ocean ridge system encircles our planet for more than 40,000 miles. Yet this... Read More
Oceans: Do You Know the Way to Cathay? The Northwest Passage Today
For more than 400 years, the Northwest Passage through the Canadian archipelago was the holy grail... Read More
Oceans: Doing the Heavy Lifting: Special Ships for the Hardest Jobs
Of the three ways to move outsized, awkward cargoes—wet-transport towing for things that... Read More
Oceans: Surf's Up! Energy from the Motions of the Oceans
Today, the world has abundant sources of hydrocarbons. North America alone has considerable... Read More
Oceans: Box Boats—Delivering the World's Stuff
Containerized cargo undoubtedly has been the greatest single advance in marine transportation in... Read More
Oceans: Deaf Whale = Dead Whale
Cetaceans—mammals of the sea, a group including whales, dolphins, and porpoises—have... Read More
Jacques Yves Cousteau: A Sailor Remembered
The new "Oceans" column will appear bimonthly in Proceedings. It is written bv Dr. Don... Read More
Oceans: To the North Pole for Fun and Profit
Frederick Cook and Robert Peary claimed to have been the first explorers to reach the North Pole... Read More
Oceans: A Submarine in Every Garage?
More than 250 manned submersibles have been built worldwide since the late 1950s. They have ranged... Read More
Oceans: Welcome to the "International Year of the Ocean"
In case you haven't heard, 1998 is "The International Year of the Ocean" (YOTO). It... Read More
Oceans: Soviet Sub Penetrates Sydney Harbor!
Although the Cold War ended with dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, Russian submarines still... Read More
Oceans: Psst . . . Wanna Buy a Sub?
Client work took me to North Germany to the shipyards of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel... Read More
Oceans: Buy the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea
The first National Ocean Conference was held in Monterey, California, 11-12 June. It really began... Read More
Oceans: Dr. Piccard and his Wonderful Electric Submarines
At the end of World War II, Dr. Jacques Piccard was a professor of international economics and his... Read More
Oceans: Sub Wars off Waikiki
Seven submarines, not any of which belong to the U.S. Navy, operate daily in Hawaii. They are... Read More
Oceans: AE-2: Subsunk—Subfound
Australia ordered its first submarines in 1910—two of the new British E class, displacing 810... Read More
Oceans: Cruising On High-Tech Megaships
Cruising is a diverse and fast growing business. Five and a half million people took cruises in... Read More
Oceans - Race to the North: Who Owns the Arctic Ocean?
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest (maximum depth, 16,400 feet) of the five oceans. It... Read More
Oceans: ROVing the Seas, Lands and Space
A "remotely operated vehicle" (ROV) usually is defined as a tethered, unmanned... Read More
Oceans: Whose Ship Is It Anyway?
The RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, with more than 1,500 people lost. In 1985, the wreckage was... Read More
Oceans - Race to the Bottom of the Sea—Seven Miles Deep
In 2010 three groups announced plans to develop and send a manned submersible to the deepest place... Read More
Oceans - The Big Picture: Studying the Oceans from Space
In 1964 NASA sponsored an “Oceanography From Space” symposium at the Woods Hole... Read More
Oceans: See The World—Run Away to Sea
Here is a retirement idea—your own condominium on board a luxurious ship owned by its... Read More
Oceans - America's Marine Highway—The Fast Lane?
Historically, coastal and inland shipping was the earliest means of moving relatively large amounts... Read More