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Korea is in the development of underwater robots that are being used for crawling on the ground floor in the ocean for unmanned exploring. The Seoul administration is planning to create these underwater vehicles within the next five years. The ministry’s director Joo Hyun-jong said that the robot is able to swim at a speed o 18 meters per minute and walk 30 meters per minute to explore and search for organisms or minerals. The robots strongest feature is the precision camera so it could identify and fin sunken ships so divers don’t need to go into deep waters and places where they cannot reach. This drone is going to be equipped with six-paddle like legs for moving and is going to be under a two-phase plan. By 2012 the first-phase will be in effect and is expected to have a prototype by 2015 and to be able to go as deep as 6 kilometers
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Do you think that this project would be very effective?
Do you think that America will follow this plan as well?
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Have you ever heard the phrase sleeping with the fishes? If you have you would only hear that phrase as a negative response, but this time I don’t think you will see this as a negative response. Near the island of Palawan, Philippines an underwater resort is being planned on being built by Moñozca, a Singapore-based financier. The name for this project is called “The Last Frontier Resort”. The plan for the project is going to expect to bring a total of a billion dollars in investments that could go to a 10-year period. The way the resort if going to be made is by using submarine technology. The plans have been going on since last year. A businessman and resort developer Steve Tajanlangit owns the site that it is being built under. So when this comes into effect you could have a bunch of fishes staring at you, or imagine a shark just staring at you.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100405-262424/Futuristic-underwater-resort-to-be-built-off-Palawan
Do you think that this will be successful?
Do you think this is the start of underwater cities?
When you look at Japan you may say that it looks small compared to other places. You may also say that Japan has a large population despite its small country. Well in the coast of Japan a coast guard patrol vessel said that there has been underwater volcanic activity on a Wednesday morning in the Pacific Ocean close to the island of Minami-Iwoto. The vessel said that the site where they spotted white smoke rising from the sea from about five kilometers north-northeast of the island from Yokohama.
The last report of volcanic activity was in July of 2005 and was about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo. An expert has also said that this eruption could possibly form a permanent island.
Do you think that there are underwater volcanoes around Alaska that could become a new island if you do then when do you think it will erupt?
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100204TDY01304.htm
They say that the octopus is one of the most intelligent invertebrate. The octopus can solve some of the simplest maze, can tell the difference between shapes and patterns, use landmark navigation, use tools, and have individual personalities. People start doing tests for the octopus called “prey puzzles”. These puzzles have food inside child proof bottles and time the octopus to get it open. It was recorded that the octopus had opened the bottle in 55 minutes but they said that it was difficult to tell because of the eight tentacles.
Although the octopus may seem to be a smart animal but they may not be a super smart animal. A octopus does not have and use a lot of brainpower. The average human can about 100 billion neurons and an octopus has about 168 million neurons. I do think that this animal is pretty smart even though it doesn’t have a lot of brainpower. Who knows they might become smarter in the future.
What do you think will happen with the octopus in the future?
It is now 2010 and in Chinese years it’s the year of the Tiger and it seems that the tiger is going swimming. There are reports that one of the most largest tiger populations in the world could be extinct by the end of the century. The reason for this is that the sea levels have started to rise because of the climate change around the coast of Bangladesh in an area called Sundarbans. With only an estimated amount there are 3,200 remaining Tigers in the wild.
“If we don’t take steps to address the impacts of climate change on the Sundarbans, the only way its tigers will survive this century is with scuba gear,” said Colby Loucks, World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) deputy director of conversation science.
He also said that the tigers are highly adaptable creatures like other tigers in the snowy mountains of Russia to the tropics of the Indonesia. Although the sea level rise in Sundarbans will most likely outpace the tiger’s ability to adapt.
Do you think that the tiger will be extinct by the end of the century or will the tiger be more dangerous in the water?
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=02785103914
In 2005 in the Northeast it was reported that a deadly fish virus found in one of the Great Lakes and the lake that had the virus was Lake Superior and was reported by Cornell researchers. Now there have been reports that the virus has now reached all of the great lakes. The VHSV (viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus) is said that it does not pose as a threat to humans, but it does in fact affect the fishes in the water in the lakes. The virus causes fatal anemia and hemorrhaging to the fish and many other fish species. The virus has been found in 28 different freshwater fish species in the great lakes watershed. With this virus that is spreading it has created an epidemic in the Great Lakes and New York’s sport-fishing industry.
deadly_fish_virus_now_found_in_all_great_lakes.html Here is the Link
Do you think that this virus will affect our fish over here in Alaska?
During World War 2 Japan had some of the most revolutionary technology during that time of crisis. Their Submarines were also designed with revolutionary technology inside there subs. On the coast the Hawaiian islands of Oahu there has been a discovered sunken Japanese world war submarine that was discovered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Undersea Research Lab at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The Sub was said to have aircraft-carrying submarines that held up to three folding-wing float plane bombers that could be launched by catapult just minutes after surfacing. It was also said that the submarine was longer than a football field at 400 feet. The name of the class that the submarine that was part of was called I-400 or the Japanese name “Sen-Toku”. The I-400 was one of the largest class of submarines ever built until the invention of the nuclear-powered submarines in the 1950s. I just hope I won’t ever be apart of an attack from these submarines.
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What more do you think people can do to submarine to make it more high teck?
