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Greenpeace's Custom Underwater Giant-Squid-Cam
Seagull76 writes "Check out this 1 minute video with Greenpeace's underwater photo/videographer and deep sea toy specialist, Gavin Newman, aboard the Esperanza.
After months of confronting whalers and pirates, some might envy the crew aboard the next leg of Defending Our Oceans who are heading to the beautiful Azores in the mid-Atlantic. For this leg of the expedition, the Esperanza has been equipped with state of the art monitoring equipment, including a remote operating vehicle (ROV) which can shoot video down to a depth of 300m, and a drop camera capable of reaching depths of 1,000 metres - giant squid territory! The ship will become part of the ongoing University of the Azores research program intended to establish greater scientific knowledge of the importance of deep-sea habitats and marine life. "
What all slashdotters really want to see is a giant squid - not Gavin's toys.
And I have one for you. Giant Squid in its Natural Habitat
Seriously, youtube has an interesting video of a largish humbolt squid and a dissection of a real giant squid at the London Natural History Museum.
Oh - and a Coral Cache Mirror in case Gavin's video dies.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Just to clarify, the video is just this guy describing and showing the camera itself. There doesn't seem to be actual video from the thing viewable. Shame.
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There ya go, they were charged for financing terrorism. http://www.libertysecurity.org/article283.html
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Oh dear God, "eco-terrorist" huh?
Greenpeace has been called eco-terrorist long before that little incident in the U.S. They've been described as such even before the U.S. invaded Iraq to save the world from Al-quesadilla or whatever they call themselves.
I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
Even one of their founders has turned his back on them.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Ironically, they broke it yesterday by unexpectedly banging it against some coral.
Around lunchtime, just as I was on a Defending Our Oceans project leaders conference call, and being cautiously optimistic about how well things are going out here so far - disaster struck the underwater video and stills research camera, affectionately known as the 'Drop-Cam'. While surveying a coral ridge it had crashed into a rocky outcrop and been broken into pieces.
Interesting that you would consider Greenpeace to be "terrorists". I'm taking a course on terrorism right now from a extremely right-wing professor, and even he nor the book we're using(which has whole sections on ecoterror) would consider Greenpeace to be terrorists.
Perhaps you're confusing them with Earth Liberation Front, who commit arson, or Animal Liberation Front, who are the reason many biology labs have tighter security than datacenters these days.
Greenpeace may be a bunch of annoying holier-than-thou hippies, but they are basically a activist org, not a full terrorist or revolutionary one.