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Greenpeace's Custom Underwater Giant-Squid-Cam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learn-more-about-it dept.

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. "

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  1. Bah - More Giant Squid, Less Gavin's toys by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  2. Whoops.. by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Misread the title as "Greenpeace's Custom Underwater Giant-Squid-Scam".

    Then I saw things about a toy specialist and it really got me wondering.

    Bah, as so often with misreads, the real story was boring in comparison. ;-)

    I want Greenpeace squid scam conspiracies with toy specialists! :-p

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  3. Footage about the camera, not from it. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  4. Me too! by amightywind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    Giant squid have already been photographed in their natural habitat by Japanese scientists. Greenpeace is a radical political organisation with little scientific credibility. Marine science is already in more capable hands. One can only wonder about their real motivations.

    After months of confronting whalers and pirates...

    It takes one to know one.

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    1. Re:Me too! by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny
      Giant squid have already been photographed in their natural habitat by Japanese scientists.

      This is a better shot by the Japanese team; Squid

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  5. GreenHypocrisy by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Insightful
    When will greenpeace end their days of hypocrisy and start sailing the seas in these nifty windpowered devices they call sailing ships? They use renewable energy, don't use polluting engines (much as greenpeaces current fleet does) and are arguably just about histories most proven technology.

    Of course then they would limited to actual research instead of political stunts. Almost all of histories most famous research ships were wooden sailing ships and greenpeace spits on the legacy.

    They need exposed as the frauds they are and for people to stop accepting the lie that they are an environmental group. They are a political group that has done more to harm environmental progress (look at their record on nuclear energy for a prime example) than anybody short of big industry.

    This coming from someone /has/ worked in the recycling industry, doesn't drive a big car gives to environmental causes and so on. Give money to legitimate environmental groups, live responsibly and let this political whore / quasi terrorist organization die.

  6. Obligatory... by de_smudger · · Score: 3, Funny

    ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! (oh come on, somebody had to didn't they ;)

  7. Greenpeace is irrelevant by goldspider · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even one of their founders has turned his back on them.

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  8. Hahahah IT BROKE! by jgaynor · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  9. Re:Terrorist by identity0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.