Weblogs: Greenpeace: Mysteries of the Deep — ‘the SV Rainbow Warrior left Auckland, New Zealand, on a voyage around the surrounding waters. Our mission: To highlight the irreversible damage caused to deep sea life by bottom trawling.’ Official weblog maintainer for the voyage: one Daev Walsh. Nice one Daev!
Tags: bottom, daev, damage, greenpeace, life, mission, rainbow, sea, voyage, warrior, weblogs
Wired: Hackers Put ‘Bane’ in Shadowbane:
‘Then we realized that somehow an insane god had taken control of our world and was out to kill us all.’
The population of an entire Shadowbane town was forcibly moved to the bottom of the sea, where they drowned. City guards turned feral and attacked town residents. Mobs of never-before-seen superpowerful creatures, seemingly spontaneously spawned from the ether, began to prowl the streets unchecked, killing characters in the most painful way possible.
Tags: bottom, control, god, hackers, population, sea, shadowbane, town, wired, world
A gold urn made for a Nazi party leader has been discovered in a Bavarian lake, prompting a scramble by treasure hunters determined to get their hands on the Third Reich’s long-lost riches. However, getting at any gold that might be down there, may not be so easy:
Toplitz is a byword for everything dangerous in Alpine lakes. After 30ft there is no light, and below 100ft, the water is almost freezing. At 348ft, the bottom comes into view. There is no life at the bottom of the lake because there is not enough oxygen to sustain it.
348ft, fact fans, is 116 metres. Yikes, that’s some serious diving…
Tags: bavarian, bottom, gold, lake, leader, party, scramble, third, treasure, urn
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