In order to make this accurate it had to be rather large, if you are having trouble seeing it on your computer you can click here and see it in a natural resolution. Hooray for listing the freediving limit!

Suunto this summer is offering up to $125 off brand spanking new, classy computers when you trade in that brick you have been relying on oh so many years. Aside from your Air Delivery system the dive computer is THE most important piece of equipment for keeping you safe. Click the flyer below to head over to the Aqualung website for more information or better yet stop by the shop!

Thank you all so much for the past two years.

Sincerely,
Colin Ackerman

James Cameron, most recently known as the director of Avatar (although The Abyss was a million times better and came out years ago, oh and he did those Terminator movies also) is also the current National Geographic Explorer In Residence. You can read more about what that is here, but its safe to say its one of the best jobs ever. As you can see in the video he is planning on taking his new submersible, alone, down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest point ever recorded on earth at somewhere around 35,000ft (deep enough we haven’t accurately measured it yet). Needless to say I think this is possibly the most exciting thing to happen in science in my lifetime, Cameron is supposed to head down some time in the next few weeks and live stream as much as he can of the trip, I am going to be glued to my desk chair for that.

The Story of Sushi from Bamboo Sushi on Vimeo.

Its a bit of a tear jerker at the end, as divers we really are stewards of the oceans and should be all over this sort of thing. Bamboo is making a commitment to provide great food without compromising our environment. We should all be this outgoing.

Around the 40s mark the look the Puffer gives to the camera is priceless, sort of a WTF kind of thing. Also the fact that the laser is attached to a handgun is a little disturbing…

This is a type of mushroom coral in case you were wondering and the video has been sped up 300 times, so it took roughly 10 hours of inflating and deflating for this coral to brush the dirt of its shoulders so to speak. This time laps video was taken in a lab setting so scientist could see exactly how corals do this sort of thing. You can find at least one more video like this one here, its important to keep in mind that most species of corals get the majority of their nutrients from the symbiotic algae living inside them,  so being cut off from the sun is a particularly bad thing. I don’t know about you but I get exhausted just looking at this thing pulsating, it has to be hard work!

What we have in this photo here is a Wobbegong half way through the process of swallowing a Brown-banded Bamboo shark. Both are species of sharks and this photo was taken in Australia. What’s  even cooler about this image is that while scientist have known for years that Wobbegongs eat sharks this is the first time EVER that it has been seen. You can sort through some of our instructor photos to find more pictures of Wobbegong, they are pretty awesome looking. These photos were discussed and published in the latest issue of Coral Reef Journal which you can read about here.

So what do you think flying saucer or secret underground lair for criminal masterminds….or what I find more likely a submerged cinder cone. Certain “scientists” are pointing out the apparent skid marks in the radar image above, you can make your own assumptions. The object lies in 300 feet of water so its safe to assume someone will be down there to check it out and get an actual image in the near future. To make things even MORE exciting…or not…a second smaller object was found close by suggesting a debris path similar to that of sinking ships.

Being a Michael Crichton fan I have another theory, win a free air-fill to be the first to comment correctly on that connection.

Link to the full story here.