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Fishes of the North: The Code.

The routes between Genoa and Bergen and the discovery of the Code for Mediterranean people in 13th century...

 

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Joint Event with Veterans of the Base "HYDRONAUT" (USSR)

Joint Event with external actor public organization “Benthos” Presentation "Hydronaut" & public talk with Hydronauts was held on December, 14th, 2009, at IBSS. This event brought together the veterans of the Base of Sea Exploration Fleet and Manned Submersibles “HYDRONAUT” and the wide Sevastopol public, interested in the history of the deep-sea exploration in the USSR.    Read more

WINTERING WATERBIRDS IN SEVASTOPOL BAYS

About 15 species of swimming birds winter in the bays of Sevastopol. Let's get acquainted with the most numerous and interesting of them!  Read more

HYDRONAUT. Part III: Files of the Base "Hydronaut"

Part III of the widescreen (1366 x 768 pixels) multimedia presentation "HYDRONAUT" is about a fleet of the manned submersibles exploited by the Base "HYDRONAUT" and hydronauts - the peoples who spent their lifes to explore the Abyss.   

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HYDRONAUT. Part II: Deep-sea technology in the USSR

Part II of the widescreen (1366 x 768 pixels) multimedia presentation "HYDRONAUT" is about developing, consructing and applying submersibles in the USSR - a bright and, at the same time, little-known history.

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HYDRONAUT. Part I: Well-known history of manned submersibles

Part I of the widescreen (1366 x 768 pixels) multimedia presentation provides a short, well-known history of deep-sea manned submersibles, from the first bathysphere to modern high-tech vessels.    Read more

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION- GENOA

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Watch the opening of the Sailor Chest in Genoa, ashored at the Maritime Museum on 18th of December. A sailorman opened it with the kids.
see how!!
 
 

Mysterious Dinoflagellates

Phytoplankton - microalgae – unicellular planktonic plants – can be seen only through microscope. But though so tiny they play the magnificent role in our own life, and in the life of the planet EARTH.

 

 

 

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The Black Sea Kalkan Cam

For millenniums, human civilizations change each on the Black Sea coast. Scientists have been studying the Black Sea and its inhabitatnts for more than 150 years. What can be told about the Black Sea in 10 minutes? Yet, let’s try to have a look on the Black Sea life through the eyes of its aborigen, big endemic fish – Black Sea Kalkan.Read more

Secret Tiny House

Teenagers learned on this ecological lesson that destroying an individual algal specimen means killing not only the alga but also about 50 species of microscopic animals for which the alga is a ‘tiny house’! Read more

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