Submarine Diving With Bahamas Girl

Not too long ago we brought you the story of Sacha Kalis, aka Bahamas Girl, who came along with us for a few submarine dives, so she too could visit the reefs we have near Fort Lauderdale. Planned dredging in order to deepen and widen the Port Everglades inlet to...

How Submarines Are Helping Scientists

Submarines present amazing solutions for many purposes not least for science and exploration purposes. Carrying out any type of work, observation or the like under water comes with a number of challenges, many of which are quickly and efficiently removed by the use of...

Plunging Into The Ocean With Our Submarines

In preparation of our upcoming missions we have taken receipt of our new plungers. The plungers, which actually are Sediment Coring Devices and not really plungers, are used to grab samples of the ocean bottom. The manipulator arm on the submarine  (see image below)...

Global Sub Dive – Nekton Mission

Fort Lauderdale – Project Baseline, a global conservation effort that invites divers and water lovers alike to systematically document marine and freshwater environments, is delivering valuable exploration assets to a multi-disciplinary alliance of the world’s leading...

Nekton Mission is Under Way

First Test Dives Successful The Nekton mission is officially under way. Launched just the other day in Bermuda we are now three days into the mission. GlobalSubDive’s exploration platform, the 146′ exploration vessel Baseline Explorer, is filled to the brim with...

Nekton Mission I: KEY OBJECTIVES

What’s it all about? The first mission – Mission One – of the series of missions that the newly established Nekton has planned had the following four main objectives. The first objective was about assessing the health of the deep ocean and in the process creating a...

Changing Ocean Illiteracy

Oliver Steeds, a 40-year old father of two young children and formerly successful investigative journalist, dropped the journalist career about 5 years ago in a quest to help save the oceans. The past 3 years he has concentrated on putting the Nekton / Catling Deep...

A Very Busy Summer For GlobalSubDive Indeed

It has been a very busy summer for GlobalSubDive. Mid July we headed off on course to Bermuda on a mission with Nekton. This specific mission represented the first in a series of missions that Nekton has planned and was a pioneering international and...