Well, I’ve made another short prehistoric animation. This one is about a mosasaur attacking a plesiosaur in late Cretaceous Morocco. Enjoy! Note: No AI was used to make this. This entire animation was made and narrated by humans. Transcript: 66 million years ago, the vast deserts of Morocco were covered in water. Here, marine reptiles…
Category: nautical
Ocean Planets: Real Life Subnautica?
In space, there are planets called “ocean worlds”, which are fully or partially covered in liquid water. Some of these planets may be similar to those depicted in media, such as Kamino in Star Wars, Miller’s Planet in Interstellar, and Planet 4546B in Subnautica, and they may even harbor sea life. Currently, Earth is the…
The Decline of Florida’s Coral Reefs
The Florida Keys’ coral reefs may seem healthy and full of life, but in reality, they have become coral graveyards. Since the 1970s, the Keys’ colorful coral reefs have been dying at an alarming rate, and now, 90% of the coral in the Keys is gone. While scuba diving in Key Largo, I filmed the…
How Whaling Empowered African Americans Before the Civil War
Before the Civil War, whaling was one of the few ways for African Americans to get ahead in a system stacked against them. Whaling fueled candles, lamps, machine lubricants, and even perfumes, making it one of the richest industries in America. However, it was also a brutal industry that sent men to sea for years,…
Baby Tugboat Helps Her Mother
This is a baby tugboat. At 25 feet long, she is the size of a pleasure boat and can be put on a trailer. But don’t let her small size fool you. She has two John Deere engines that give her a maximum of 400 horsepower. That’s stronger than most pickup trucks and 4x more…
The Wellerman Sea Shanty with Pirates and Sea Monsters!
I randomly decided to make this short, silly, and downright nonsensical pirate animation the other night. It was supposed to be a looping animation for another 1 hour pirate music video, but it ended up matching with the first track (an instrumental version of “The Wellerman” by Alexander Nakarada) so well that I decided to…
The Wreck of the USS Arizona – Pearl Harbor
Here lies the wreck of the battleship USS Arizona. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, 1,177 officers and crewmen tragically lost their lives aboard this ship when an armor piercing bomb hit her forward magazines. The explosion was so deadly that the Arizona accounted for 49% of total American casualties during the attack. Until September…
1 Hour of Deep Sea Creatures with Dark, Moody Music
From a young age, I have been obsessed with deep sea creatures. I love all wildlife, especially everything in the ocean, but the abyss is a place that fascinates me so much. Right now, it’s as close as we can get to exploring an alien planet with bizarre and unknown lifeforms, and it still holds…
Inflating a Life Raft Designed for Survival at Sea!
During Earth Day celebrations at Old Dominion University, the Ocean & Earth Science Department deployed an old Inflatable Buoyant Apparatus (IBA) from the R/V Fay Slover. IBAs are special lifesaving devices designed for abandon ship scenarios, where passengers must survive at sea while awaiting rescue. Watch the video here:
Scuba Diver Plays Sharks & Minnows
My wife and I decided to play Sharks & Minnows, a horror game, where you’re trapped in a pool and need to swim 10 laps surrounded by deadly sea creatures. As you may know, I’ve scuba dived with real sharks and other sea creatures, so this was a fun and scary experience! Link to the…
Tidewater Teddy 