Dive, Dive, Dive

12 responses to “Dive, Dive, Dive”

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   jurvetson

   Oct 31, 2011 at 12:58 am

   Final smile up to the crew on the Kraken support ship

   

   Looking back at the front dome with my underwater cam:
   

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Oct 31, 2011 at 1:27 am

   Have a lovely, enjoyable and intellectually stimulating dinner!

   This is so awesome! It is a fantastic way to spend a day as a young person, for 2 young people I should say!

   That is an incredible day you spent! Going in space is great but seeing our mysterious underwater world provides a wealth of experiences and discoveries much more attainable and colourful!

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   Minnesota’s Ryan

   Oct 31, 2011 at 2:05 am

   unreal

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   solerena

   Oct 31, 2011 at 2:21 am

   great tour, wonder if there is a website, how do you get in on a tour like this? or it is not for general public. so cool – dive, dive, dive:) agree with Dr. Dad that your son looks exactly like you – reflections of you…

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   msamaclean ©

   Oct 31, 2011 at 2:52 am

   Oh– a great place to explore in a sub! I went down in one there a couple of summers ago. Fun among the kelp forests!…;-)

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   goodeye03 (Rich)

   Oct 31, 2011 at 3:57 am

   Great portrait…
   One would be proud to have a shot like this.

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   TrombaMarina

   Oct 31, 2011 at 1:12 pm

   Your children are very fortunate to have experiences like this. I believe it really opens your mind to be exposed to so many different things, hands-on, first person, especially as a child. Books and TV definitely help, but being there makes a deeper impression. I would have *loved* this and an adult… I mean, as a child. 🙂

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   obskura

   Oct 31, 2011 at 4:09 pm

   Ooh, very cool. I was lucky enough to get on a dive with one of the two Russian MIR deep sea subs (there are only half a dozen submarines that can go to 6000m depth – I only went to 300m though…). I’m very jealous of this big window on this sub… the MIR has only a few tiny portholes.
   
   

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   obskura

   Oct 31, 2011 at 7:48 pm

   Just noticed your note about the CO2 sensor… on our dive it steadily went up to 1% (starting to feel a bit dizzy as well), and then the meter just maxed out… Good to know that up to 3% would’ve been fine too 🙂

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    RRNeal

    Oct 31, 2011 at 11:33 pm

    @jurvetson – any info you could share regarding "evolution, growth and innovation" would be most interesting! Danke.

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    jurvetson

    Nov 1, 2011 at 2:47 am

    Sure. The mind meld host was the Gruter Institute. I was sitting next to Carl Bergstrom and we seemed to have many interests in common (perhaps given similar perceptual frameworks) that spanned from compressed sensing to bioterrorism. =)

    Here is a Google Tech Talk video of some of the thoughts I wanted to share. As we design for evolvability, the locus of learning shifts from the artifacts themselves to the process that created them. There is no mathematical shortcut for the decomposition of a neural network or genetic program, no way to "reverse evolve" with the ease that we can reverse engineer the artifacts of purposeful design. The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms (evolution, fractals, organic growth, art) derives from their irreducibility.

    An innovative organization tries to exploit a hive-like intelligence that transcends the sum of its members. Leadership in complex organizations shifts from direction setting to a wisdom of crowds. The role of upper management is to tune the parameters of communication. Leaders can embrace a process that promotes innovation with emergent predictability more than they can hope to dictate the product of innovation itself.

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/obskura] – same here. We abandoned a wreck we found on sonar once the CO2 hit 1%. Very, very cool experience with the Mir.

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeany7] – I asked about the color choice and they gave a decent reason – bright contrast on the surface for recovery ships. White would blend in with the whitecaps and breakers.

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/solerena] – Yes, OceanGate has a site. I think they wanted some space people to keep the astronaut company. =)

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    jurvetson

    Nov 1, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Thanks….. I think his recording light is still on… =)

    

    P.S. Just posted the HD Video compilation. Wow, he took a lot of video!

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