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Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby bill cobbett » Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:47 pm

The US survey ship Nautilus (famed for discovering the Titanic) is surveying the Med sea-floor at the Eratosthenes Seamount to the south of CY.

Streaming live videos of the sea-bed from cameras on rovers and scientists are answering questions live on air.

http://www.nautiluslive.org/
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby Cap » Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:28 pm

Pretty cool stuff.
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby kurupetos » Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:41 pm

A lot of Greek artifacts. :D
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby Get Real! » Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:58 pm

kurupetos wrote:A lot of Greek artifacts. :D

Yeah, plenty of Greek artichokes…
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby kurupetos » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:01 pm

Get Real! wrote:
kurupetos wrote:A lot of Greek artifacts. :D

Yeah, plenty of Greek artichokes…

No, it was a Greek amphora! 8)
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby bill cobbett » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:22 pm

kurupetos wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
kurupetos wrote:A lot of Greek artifacts. :D

Yeah, plenty of Greek artichokes…

No, it was a Greek amphora! 8)


... well they def described something as an "amphora" earlier, but it was pretty broken up... guess they know what they're looking at.

oooh... just found the photo albums and they are def amphorae...

http://www.nautiluslive.org/album/2012/ ... s-seamount
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby Get Real! » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:31 pm

Can someone check the nationality of those barnacles… I suspect they’re Greek! :?
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Re: Live Pictures from the Eratosthenes Seamount, CY EEZ

Postby kurupetos » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:22 pm

bill cobbett wrote:
kurupetos wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
kurupetos wrote:A lot of Greek artifacts. :D

Yeah, plenty of Greek artichokes…

No, it was a Greek amphora! 8)


... well they def described something as an "amphora" earlier, but it was pretty broken up... guess they know what they're looking at.

oooh... just found the photo albums and they are def amphorae...

http://www.nautiluslive.org/album/2012/ ... s-seamount

:D
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