This week's episode dove slightly deeper into the mystery of Ben Caspare's death.
"The sea was quite rough by the shore so I decided to dive slightly further out and after swimming over 300 meters of sand I found a long blackened ridge". Dawn Watson exploring the prehistoric forest in the North Sea off the English coastal village of Cley next the Sea.
In many situations, the benefits of increasing the respiratory O2 load to increase dive duration slightly could be quickly outweighed by the associated locomotor costs of fighting against higher buoyancy during the descent and the bottom phase of the dive.
Daily dive depths differed slightly but significantly with shark size, with small sharks diving to greater maximum depths (∼800 m) in the Gulf Stream than larger sharks (∼500 m) (p = 0.02, r2 = 0.28, n = 17).
Both dive depth and frequency were approximately constant outside of the periods of twilight or darkness (2100-0600), but declined rapidly to zero during the night, driving the strong relationship between those variables and time of day (Fig. 6) Dive frequency was slightly higher when wind was from the north.
The Green blog and Dot Earth have explored these issues, but it's worth a slightly deeper dive, here provided in a "Your Dot" contribution from Matthew Wilkinson, the founder and editor of the informative Safaritalk blog.
In LA, the pearl I dived for was a slightly damp-stained and foxed copy of Conversations with Richard Wilbur, which contains 30 years of the Pulitzer prize-winner's lucid, gentle defences of formal verse and his organic relationship with it.
Previously at a 33-person capacity dive bar, and a slightly larger lounge, Robotic decided they needed much more space.
Reverse swan dive transition: With knees slightly bent, inhale and lift your arms up to the side with your palms face upward to the sky.
Sensing his improvement, the crowd roared him on to the platform for his final slightly lower tariff dive, a three and a half somersault with tuck that he absolutely nailed to score 89.10.
