Sunday, May 27, 2012

The beauty of nature (and a shipwreck)


OK, since I've veered dangerously close to the unwholesome today, I'm going to finish on a very high note.  The NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer was checking out Gulf of Mexico seafloor targets with their robotic submersible, and one of the targets they checked out turned out to be what was probably a 19th century shipwreck with rifles and cannon.  The combination of wreck and marine life is PHENOMENAL.   I assume they'll try to use the footage to figure out more accurately the who/what/when of the ship.  But for me, it shows that the world still has the power to amaze and mesmerize.

Wow.  Just plain wow.

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