ee, man, you know little about boats

age of sail, sea yearning, marine biology, nautical shitposting. the terror (#2 hickey apologist), hornblower, aubreyad, black sails, pirates of the caribbean.

[abyssalcaptain]

fucked up boats

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I think it would be really wonderful if seagulls were constructed more like bottles with a mystery inside. What I'm imagining is that were you to catch one, you could then unscrew its face and there would be a glowing gem nestled in some sort of socket. The Core of the Gull so to speak. Then you could swap that around with other seagulls, and after screwing the faces back on they would fly off as if nothing happened. Hm... Is this too esoteric, or do some of you see what I am getting at?

[ramalamacreatures]

HANDMADE Polymer Clay Blue-footed Booby figurine before and after painting.

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[a-glittering-universe]

thank you op, this post gave me such reality whiplash that I had to go read the wikipedia for diatoms and now I have Learned Things :D

[crabussy]

hooray!!! let’s all Learn Things every day [:

[feastofsnakes]

I will never be over these stats btw #jamesfitzjamessweep

[charseraph]

Reverse beach episode. Go into the woods. Winter. More clothes.

[unexplained-occurrences]

[idc0o]

Somehow being a person does not come naturally to me

[tatws-cath]

Sunfish and her stars

emboidered wall hanging

[wigfucker]

Made some bs👍

[pyx]

victorian sterling silver seal peppers

[circusheart]

If I keep practicing I might even be a person soon

[bepreparedforachange]

MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT ❤️ MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT

[dionevogler]

[endofloves]

hornblower the even chance + textposts

[alkemylabz]

when the setting/location in a story is also a character in itself