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A Tour of One of the World's Only Underwater Labs With Fabien Cousteau
An anonymous reader writes Having completed his 31-day stretch underwater, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, shows off his underwater laboratory to PBS in this video. When asked about his observations' Fabien said' "It's just amazing, we've seen so much new behavior that I've never seen before. Fish sleeping in sponges, a goliath grouper attacking a barracuda, never seen that before, I don't think anyone has ever caught it on film before. Christmas tree worms, spawning and giving off this milky smoke like stuff off. I mean it's just science fiction, it's really amazing down here. And that's why we're down here, my grandfather used to say, in order to film a fish you must become a fish. So we're trying to get as close as we can to becoming fish."
Still, not as cool as discovering the Jaguar Shark.
You were critically hit for no damage. The bruise will look nice, and maybe the scars will make good party talk.
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Jules' Undersea Lodge
No.
The pressure inside of a water-tight trailer at sea-level is 1 bar. The Aquarius is at "environmental" pressure, meaning 2.8b when you're 18m below sea-level. This means they will experience the same effects of pressure as a scuba diver but on a much longer period.
So yes, this would be a family record for saturation diving (see older thread).
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
I'm one of the world's only men. I'm one of the smartest, best looking, cleanest, dirtiest, stupidest, transparent, greenest and fluffiest people on the planet.
I am one of them, and adding "only" adds no context. How about quantifying? One of 3? Or one of 100?
....they should remove bubbles.
His grandpa did that decades ago. How is that today we can't do it?
Ooowwwww, howling mad Murphy here, it's the zing of the day. Haha fignuts
been done many times by sat divers. not a record at all
... grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau ...
I read it as "Underwear" first. Underwater makes more sense.
But if it smells like fish, looks like fish, it must be a...
Seriously, without Jacques Yves Cousteau (and military divers), there probably wouldn't have been nearly the early development of scuba diving that brought in the talent and creativity required to make it safer than riding a bike on the street (something else I do with great regularity at night, thank you, Cree LED lights). Scuba diving today has a fatality estimate of about 5 per 100K divers.
But other than show the effects of 31 days of 2.8 bar, what else did he do of significance that couldn't be more easily, cheaply, and probably better done using a 360 degree video camera set up with lights on an underwater drone dropped off the back of a research ship for 31 days?
Has Fabien even been diving before? Fish sleeping in sponges? I've seen that on nearly every night dive I've done. Christmas tree worms spawning are science fiction? Really? I have my own pictures of that: https://www.flickr.com/photos/... - and I'm pretty sure I'm not special here.
Seems to me this guy needs to get out some more. Or at least find something useful to do with his life other than try to capitalize on his name with ridiculous stunts...
When this woman falls asleep behind the wheel, for no apparent reason, they'll string her up for being careless. Because it will have to be her fault right!.......WTF is going the be the result of this "stimulation of the brain"?
I've nothing of importance to say, now go away before I taunt you with a second sig!
and TFA is all wrong. It's not "his" lab. Aquarius is owned by NOAA, operated by Florida International University, and leased to whoever can book/afford time.
Bah.
You say "underwater habitat", I say "mom's basement".
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I was totally positive this was a Underwear lab, not underwater.