A whirlpool is a vortex, a spinning body of water around a central point. Whirlpools can vary from tiny eddy currents in a stream to huge tidal flows powerful enough to swamp small boats. Most of us have our first experience with whirlpools looking at water going down the sink, however this is not how most whirlpools in nature work. [...]

Millions of pounds of unexploded bombs and other military ordnance that were dumped decades ago in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, could now pose serious threats to shipping lanes and the 4,000 oil and gas rigs in the Gulf, warns two Texas A&M University oceanographers. William Bryant and [...]

Urban Reef Isla Mujeres 8m A new series of sculptures have now been added to the MUSA collection entitled Urban Reef, they depict a series of suburban dwellings specifically designed to house individual marine species. Working with local marine biologists the units are designed with a variety of rooms, spaces, hideaways and textures all tailored for different reef inhabitants. Located [...]

Constructed from high strength pH-neutral cement and incorporating tensile stainless steel coral anchoring points, The Phoenix is first kinetic sculpture in the MUSA collection. Based on a female form her wings are propagated with living purple gorgonian fan coral (Gorgonia ventalina) which continuously moves back and forth underwater filtering nutrients from the water column. The fan coral which is often [...]

Now that Nasa has shut down the shuttle program, it seems we finally get a chance to refocus on our beloved blue planet, and most importantly on the remainder 3/4th of it. The big blue. The Mariana trench is the holly grail with its 11,034 meters depth. Other than being an adventurous aquanaut you need two things to conquer such a depth, [...]

  I recently came back from DEMA and one brillant idea I harvested while in Orlando was the one from Kirk Krack at P.F.I., it is called Formula 3 Freediving. Now let’s take a closer look at each of these words. Formula involves racing of some sort, 3 for the number of pilots per team, Freediving because the race track is [...]