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Diveboard updates : Explore !

par Ksso le 26 août 2013

We gave a lot of love to the shops pages recently, but that doesn't mean we're not busy making the rest of Diveboard better.

Pascal just released today the kind of updates I love best: little touches here and there that totally change how a page is perceived.

By being supersized, the right pane of the explore has all of a sudden taken a whole new dimension, with the text becoming super easy to read and the pictures totally changing the way this thing looks. Plus the pics are now picked amongst the nicest one uploaded - dramatically changing the experience on this page.

Try it out and see how it goes! ...

Mako shark attacking a PelagicView dredge

par Ksso le 11 juillet 2013

Super impressive video unexpectedly shot a few days ago next to Ocean City, MD. Fishermen were looking for thuna and stuck a Gopro to their line. They ended up shooting a Mako shark feasting on the bait !

The images show the mako catching up the bait moving at 7 knots (~ 12kmh) and giving a fairly good view on the shark's pointy teeth.

Octopus riding a turtle

par Ksso le 6 juillet 2013

Spotted on reddit and.... totally AWESOME ! Maybe octopus are secretly playing quidditch riding turtles and blasting pufferfishes and chasing nautiluses ... this totally needs more investigation.

Alternatively this may be an alien .... :)

Beautiful scuba commercial by Swatch

par Ksso le 22 juin 2013

Swatch really doesn't naturally click with scuba. And while I'm still trying to figure out what this new line of watches has to do with scuba - couldn't find depth rating or any scuba feature aside from the name of the watches (lionfish... ), I was awed by the video clip - it would have been an amazing clip for Diveboard !

By the way the soundtrack is "Underwater" by Mika (here on Spotify)

Tiny and awesome: Discovering Lembeh Macro Life

par Ksso le 19 juin 2013

Khaled Sultani made that incredible video starring the macro life in Lembeh Strait . Lembeh is considered the "muck diving capital" and is probably the best place to be for underwater macro photographers. With a biodiversity like nowhere else combined with the friendliness of Indonesians, it's a place to pin on every diver's map.

Follow Khaled through this video and ... let's see how many species you can recognizem ! Hit the comments with your tags time:species !

Got Muck? from Khaled Sultani on Vimeo.

Support Coralbot on Kickstarter

par Ksso le 17 avril 2013

We first heard about the Coralbot about a year ago. Imagined by a team of scientists from the Heriot-Watt university, the projects leverages on research on swarm intelligence to provide an innovative solution to restore the function of reefs, both shallow and deep across the globe. They just launched a kickstarter project to raise 107 000$ to build prototypes to demonstrate their approach.

Coral-bots are a team of robots that intelligently navigate across a damaged coral reef, transplanting pieces of healthy corals along the way. The big job of developing and testing the robots at sea has already been done. All that remains is to embed the robots with computer vision to “see” healthy bits...

Testing the Cetatek Aquabionic Warp 1 fins

par Ksso le 17 mars 2013

Cetatek was kind enough to send me a pair for their first product: the Aquabionic Warp 1.Yesterday I took them on a test drive with a buch of friends. Since my place is nowhere near a real see we had to make do with the local 20m/65ft deep pit so I couldn't try them out against a real current - but still got enough material to give some feedback on this piece of tech.

I've had the traditional Volo Race fins for years - a pretty popular model amongst divers since they're pretty cheap and yet going a bit beyond the cheap finns thing with some work done on impulse restitution which I found fairly efficient. But those finns have know to be very fragile and indeed you can tell the weak spots...

Fun things to do on a pit dive

par Ksso le 15 mars 2013

I'll be going to dive in a pit (pool) tomorrow. It's 20m/65ft depth and boring as hell. I've only got some gear to test which will keep me busy for 10 minutes tops.

Any hints on what could be fun to do during the remaining 40 mins ?

I was thinking at chess playing (got a small magnetic board), maybe try a Frisbee ?

Any idea?

A few Transparent underwater species

par Ksso le 22 février 2013

As I was browsing weird underwater species, I realized there are quite a few that are weirder than others or at least that were showing a particular feature : being transparent.

I picked 3 very different weird ones, but I'm sure there are more ! (don't hesitate to leave your hints in comments I'd love to complete the list). I didn't mention the obvious jellyfishes - the very ones every diver has encountered (and tried to avoid most of the time) .

1. The Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma)

The Barreley lives in pretty deep places (~2,000m, 6,000ft) and has some incredible eyes able to rotate upwards to look through its transparent skull (actually fluid-filled) ...

Picture of a Giant Manta giving birth

par Ksso le 8 février 2013

Film Maker Martin Ureta is a really lucky diver. As he was in Maldives for a holiday he ended up taking the first ever picture of a giant oceanic manta ray (Manta birostris) giving birth! Mantas aren't mammals but their reproduction is very cingular as during copulation the male will fertilize the female's eggs which will be staying in the female's body for about 12 months. Eggs will hatch internally usually ending with giving birth to one pup.... which is wat the picture captured !

As you may know little is known about the life of those giant animals and their protection is of upmost importance as explained in depth on...