“Jiaolong will make a 7,000-meter test dive this year after several improvements are made to the submersible vessel,” Jin Jiancai, secretary-general of the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association, said over the weekend. If the planned dive is successful, Jiaolong will have proven itself capable of reaching nearly any seabed in the world. China will also hold the record for performing the deepest navigable dive, surpassing Japan, whose Shinkai 6500 dove 6,527 meters in August 1989. Bathyscaphe Trieste went deeper in 1960, to 10,911 meters, but could not navigate along the bottom of the sea bed.
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Gold-digging diver gets arm stuck in a vacuum hose
The gold hunters of “Bering Sea Gold” (Fri., 10 p.m. EST on Discovery) use high-powered vacuums on the bottom of the sea in their work to try and find gold there. But as with any equipment underwater, working with them can be dangerous. Emily, the newest member of the team, who’s trying to make money to pay for school, got a scare that had her questioning if the potential payoff was worth the risk.
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Liam Tancock is FAST at putting on a swim cap
We’ve seen others do it before, but now it is Tancock ! :-)
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GoPro Wi-Fi BacPac will allow us to live stream 50 remote controlled GoPro’s at a time
GoPro’s highly anticipated Wi-Fi BacPac and Wi-Fi Remote Combo Kit are promised to be released in March 2012 for $99, that will allow us to simultaneusly record to onboard SD-card and live stream over Wi-Fi from 50 cameras at a time, remote controlled via the Wi-Fi Remote or with a free GoPro App available for both Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.
OK, I’m not 100% sure that we will be able to  have all 50 GoPro’s set up to to the same live stream, and am quite sure that most Wi-Fi nets will be hard pressed if all 50 live stream simultaneously. But just imagine if we can switch between let’s say just 8 of them, and somehow have streaming sound from a quality external microphone also  … that is a major live streaming setup in a box ! :-)
(My favorite photo gadget reporter Olivia reviewing the GoPro Hero2 HD, mentioning the Wi-Fi BacPac at 2:13)
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Wow, frozen sea ice flowers are beautiful
If I understand this correctly, this is something called ‘surface hoar frost‘, where saturated water vapors coming up through cracks in sea ice freeze and crystallize with salt on the ice serving as a nucleus for the frozen vaporized water. A dominant source of sea salt aerosol in Antactica, that scientist suspect may be main cause of tropospheric ozone depletion during the polar sunrise. Oh well, whatever, it is first and foremost absolutely beautiful ! :-)
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CC photo #45: Kristina Elin Thomsen took down 2 Faroese records this weekend
Kristina Elin Thomsen from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is only 13 years old and not very tall at that, but still blew away two relatively long-standing Faroese senior records this weekend at the Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk. First with a 2:25.36 in the 200 meter short course butterfly (yeah I know, we need to improve on that), and then with a 1:03.44 in the 100. The 200 butterfly was the longest standing record in our book, from May 2005, and the 100 butterfly from the supersuited days back in 2009.
Here is her 100 butterfly swim:
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Learning to Swim with Michael Klim
Huggies swim pants and tribal tattoos is a fun combination ! :-)
Via the17thman
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Paganelli, Randig and de Vos freediving the Dahab caves
Linda Paganelli, Stefan Randig and Jacques de Vos head out to ‘The Caves’ just south of Dahab. Despite being an overcast, winter January day the dive itself still turned out to be awesome…
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Armstrong goes back to his triathlon roots, bests all but one
“I was very surprised, to say the least,” Lance Armstrong said after his incredible runner-up finish at today’s Ironman 70.3 Panama. “It was a completely new experience for me. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know strategically how these races go down, so I tried to feel my way out on the bike and basically take a crash course in 70.3s.”
Read more here on ironman.com
