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Aug 10, 2012 9:30 PM   You're going to watch this video and your jaw will drop. In fact, you'll probably think it's fake. Or CGI, at least. But nope, it's completely real. A group of guys went fishing and dropped a GoPro Hero 2 camera inside a custom-made torpedo to record the ocean underneath them. What the camera recorded was the most amazing footage of dolphins you'll ever see. The underwater footage is just unbelievably beautiful, a pod of Pacific White-Sided dolphins—so many I couldn't even count them—started swimming with the boat, looking happy and excited and just freaking awesome, like they knew the camera was there. The guys were near Santa Cruz, California when this happened and it just shows how the ocean is a beautiful place. [Vimeo via Kottke] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

It was just another day for the Aquanauts exploring the warm, crystal waters of Conch Reef when a storm hit. The divers registered the 10-degree temperature drop on their skin a moment after the visibility went from 60 feet down to a dozen. But everything was calm topside—this was an underwater storm. The bad weather was driven by a wave pushed up from the depths. This phenomenon is called an internal wave and it was here, at Aquarius, a few years ago, that Aquanaut Dale Stokes and Jim Leichter discovered that they were critical for reef life. The waves reach 20-40 meters tall without breaking the surface. And they are filled with important nutrients vital to the sea life. Their three-dimensional movement was understood using a mesh network of hundreds of little thermal loggers. When waves like this passed over the sensors, they lit up the electronics like rolling traffic lights. The resulting data visualization discovered that they moved just like a breaking wave on a beach. Only bi...

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