Deepwater Horizon in flames after the explosion, via Wikipedia
My first hitch as a licensed guy, we get mayday calls. Deepwater Horizon. 33 nm east. Mayday. In a great comment, HVACDC_Bag reflects on working on spill response vessels in the Honda Point Disaster thread.
DSCN3846edit by jon pratty (cc by)
"Shoots you down in a lifeboat, in choppy water, at night, on Easter.": I'd like some insight as to why this sign would be on a state supervisor and an office manager's door to their shared office. Mysterious! But Ask Mefi answerers come through!
Storm Surge by Krystal.Hamlin (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter, cda is looking for the best products that smell like the ocean
Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi by NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research (cc by-sa)
More people have been to the Moon than the Hadal Zone.
Dive into motty's post of Neal Agarwal's awesome deep sea scroller to view unfathomable mysteries of the vasty depths, meter by meter
Seafloor Surveys After Katrina by NOAA Images
bassomatic says, "my dad and his team of underwater archaeologists were the first to find an ancient shipwreck using side-scan sonar..."
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AskMe offers some resources on cloudwatching for beginners
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Submersible finds glowy purple orb in the depths
And finally, that pressing question, what if I fell out of an airplane in a tank full of water?
Laputa: Castle in the Sky / 天空の城ラピュタ（バルス後） by Tatsuya Tanaka
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