Fridays Blogg

Reflecting on todays post of installing the underwater research observatory, it would be incredibly difficult to accomplish and do all safely, you have to have all the right safety and backup equipment just in case.Getting down farther enough would be tremendously hard especially with the pressure difference, the unusual breathing technique for too much  time is risky, risking your own life down there every time. Its also very tricky because, one, you have to go 900 km down into the ocean to set up loads of safety equipment and heavy duty stuff that they need for there survival while down there for long periods of time. Technology should work down there, as well as bathroom access, sleeping, and cooking.

They must consider whats around them, like dangerous species, and even just the littlest break in any equipment could cause everything to go wrong. They must consider space for the amount of food they need to bring and have a enough until the next crew emergency team member comes to bring more supplies. They must consider the pressure difference and may choose to get a decompression chamber in the laboratory just to be safe. Safety comes first, so they must also consider there backup crew to be close by if emergency's were to occur.

Why Explore the Oceans

Learning about the Ocean and the expeditions of many ancient world explorers has really been an interesting topic. Theres actually more water than land on the earth and we dont even know whats going on in it or how we first travelled upon it and the influences each person had that prompted the voayges and easier navigation.All the bodys of land are shaped by the ocean and its movements.  The ocean has a big impact on the weather and climate as well because of the wind currents and the waves in the ocean. The ocean actually keeps us alive because where else would we get a water supply from or the sea life wouldnt be here and niether would us. The earth would dry out compeletely and have no living organisms. The ocean supports many diversities of diffrent forms of life matter and all diffrent kinds of ecosytems for the diffrent varietys of the living matter down there. The humans and the ocean are connnected because they both rely on there surroundings for there survival, as sea organsims cant live outside of the water mostly, humans cant live with the oxygen in the air we breathe. The ocean is highly unexplored because you need it so difficult to get the right technology to actually get down there safely to explore.

Why study Science?

I chose to take this course because i think its a lot different than any other science class given as a choice. The ocean life seems very interesting; my brother really enjoys the subject and has told me a lot about it, because he minors in it at U MASS Lowell. There are so many new mysteries in the ocean that we still don't even know, because you really don't know whats going on down there unless you have physical contact with the marine life.