Come Fly With Us

Batemans Bay Undersea (1) – Come fly with us

BATEMANS BAY UNDERSEA – Come Fly With UsBecause of the wonderful response to our Batemans Bay photos and videos we would like to invite you to join us on a journey under the waves.This is the first in a series of short videos and photos we will bring you over time showing how wonderful and amazing this place is. We will bring new vision as we acquire it and clips from our archives. We encourage you to like and follow our page, share, comment and ask questions.In this first video we are flying above a sponge reef in Batemans Bay, not far from the Batemans Bay township. It is about 16m deep and we see long stalked sea tulips, single tunicates, bryzoans, sponges and other life covering the hill. We fly over towards a peaceful blue grouper gliding above the landscape.

Posted by Undersearov on Saturday, July 13, 2019

Potting Skills

Joe from Blue Robotics does a great job walking through how to pot a penetrator. Check it out if you are a first-timer or need to brush up on your potting skills:

Remember – we supply Blue Robotics’ thixotropic potting compound and tools!

Accidentally Discovered Shipwreck in Gulf of Mexico

In mid-May, researchers aboard the NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer “accidentally” discovered a 19th century wooden shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico during a training and equipment test trip. Awesome accident!

Full article at: Geek.com 29may19

Exploration At Its Finest: May 16, 2019

On May 12, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer set sail for a shakedown and sea-trial expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. On May 16, while conducting an "engineering dive" to test new remotely operated vehicle equipment, the team made an unexpected – and exciting – discovery: the wreck of what is likely a mid-19th century wooden sailing vessel. Thanks to telepresence technology, we were able to quickly assemble a team of archaeologists to virtually participate in the remainder of the dive and make some initial observations of the wreck: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1902/welcome.html.This exciting find, and the fact that we basically randomly "stumbled" upon a wreck, further illustrates just how little we know about what lies on the seafloor.

Posted by NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research on Tuesday, May 28, 2019