Author Archive for Ken Kostel – Page 3

Grabbing a Quick Bite

Alan Jamieson from the University of Aberdeen recorded the first evidence of cusk eel feeding behavior during a recent hadal

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Gifts from the Deep

We’ve had two days of surprises, both of them fish-related. Yesterday, Alan Jamieson brought back video from his hadal lander

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Who Invited Murphy?

There is a saying in oceanography, “Don’t put anything in the water you can’t afford to lose.” The day someone

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Meet Nereus

We are being brushed by a storm on the other side of New Zealand, but out here, even the edge

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Eat or Be Eaten

The hadal lander deployed by Alan Jamieson and Thomas Linley from the University of Aberdeen provides a rare glimpse at

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Testing 1, 2, 1500

One mile. One thousand five hundred meters. Less than one-sixth the distance to the seafloor at our deepest dive site.

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Mobilizing Nereus

WHOI research associate Marshall Swartz describes the process of taking the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus from its shipping containers and turning

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