Marine scientists can’t be everywhere at once. To really understand what’s happening below the waves, though, they need a lot of observations—from many places at many times. So they’re getting help from recreational divers. The divers can carry instruments, or just log what they see.
One project is set to begin in December. Known as BlueDot, it’ll provide insights into how the Mediterranean Sea is warming up—not only at the surface, but down to more than a hundred feet.
When Pinocchio and his father, Geppetto, were swallowed by a whale, they started a fire to make the whale sneeze them out. That’s not exactly the strategy that juvenile Japanese eels use, but the eels have managed to find a way to escape the stomachs of predators that swallow them—and biologists have captured their Houdini-like feats on video.
