This wreck/artificial reef was used as a missile tower test platform for submarine based warfare. They would load a missle into it, sink it underwater and launch the missile. Of course, when the Navy was finished with it, the ceremoniously dumped it into the ocean as an artificial reef, very close to the Mexican Border.

Here is a still photograph that I shot last year.

Check out that underwater housing that Bruce Mozert made back in the 1930s, which at the time was one of few in existance. For the next few decades he used it to take some amazing underwater pictures in Silver Springs Florida. Check out the Smithsonian’s site for a collection of them.

Here is an article about his life.

The name of the species is Opistognathus Rosenblatti. There is a wikipedia article on jawfishies and here is as still photograph of this species, you can really see where it gets it’s name from.

Rinspeed sQuba concept car

It’s just a concept car, there is no plans to produce this vehicle. But this is pretty cool. The regulators are Scuba Pro G250s which means that they didn’t skimp on the details. Its  brainchild of concept car designer, Founder and CEO of Rinspeed Inc

The petrol engine with three electric motors, one to power the rear wheels and two for the specially designed propellers. They are capable of taking it to 75mph on land, a more sedate 4mph while cruising in “boat” mode and a positively tranquil 2mph while underwater.

Once under water, its occupants breath air coming from an integrated tank of compressed air similar to that used by scuba divers. The vehicle can stay under water “until you run out of air or battery power,” which is about two hours.

scuba-diving-cat

It’s an ad for HowStuffWorks.com. The cat looks miserable but then again that’s how most cats look most of the time, so who knows. I’d really like to see how they got the cat into that contraption.

Girly MAN!!!!!man man man man

Here is a picture of him:

Here is his Wikipedia article