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Kristina Dutton’s ‘Nanoscapes’ short film shows what butterfly wings look like under an electron microscope at up to 50,000x magnification. Butterfly wings are basically made of chitin, a fibrous substance that’s also found in the exoskeletons of most insects, and scales.
Filmmaker Pawel Achtel shot this incredible underwater whale footage with his custom-built 18.7K cinema camera. This innovative 9×7 digital cinema camera was housed inside a custom-designed Vanquish underwater case, complete with modified Nikonos submersible lenses.
Photo credit: Nathan Angelakis
Scientists have strapped actions cameras onto sea lions (Neophoca cinerea) to identify previously unmapped benthic habitats used by the animals on the continental shelf. A total of 89 hours of footage allowed the team to identify six benthic habitats: macroalgae reef, macroalgae meadow, bare sand, sponge/sand, invertebrate reefs, and invertebrate boulder.
We know the Insta360 X4 action camera is waterproof, but can it handle sharks? Swiss filmmaker Zimy wanted to find out, and in 8K, so he equipped his with an Invisible Dive Case before going diving with tiger sharks.
EvoLogics Quadroin is essentially a penguin-inspired underwater drone that can explore shipwrecks autonomously. It’s powered by four electric thrusters in the rear that enable the robot to dive to a maximum depth of 492-feet and reach a top speed of 11.5 mph.
Researchers use the Husky UGV to spy on penguins in Antarctica, while John Downer Productions employed this robot pig to infiltrate that swimming pigs of the Bahamas for David Tennant’s BBC/PBS series Spy in the Ocean. Why are there pigs here? Well, legend has it that they swam to the island from a nearby shipwreck.
