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How Low Can You Go

Megami — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:37 -0800

Decca's international search for the lowest singing voice out there - specifically, a voice that can sing Low E, three octaves below middle C - has been won by Tim Storms (warning, auto starts some sound). Storms is Guinness record holder of Lowest human voice and widest vocal range for male. Storms' normal 'talking' voice can be heard here in an interview with BBC radio. His singing voice can be heard here in a recording of 'That Lonesome Road' and here is a recording of him singing 8 hertz The competition was organised so as to find a singer who could sing the lowest note in a new choral work 'De Profundis' by Paul Mealor, who is best known as one of the composers featured in the church service of a recent Royal Wedding.

Not quite 20,000 leagues under the sea. Our apologies.

maudlin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:35:04 -0800

The BBC has produced a fabulous infographic showing the ocean zones: Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Lower Midnight, and The Trenches. The page also includes videos showing: what happens to material at 100, 1000, and 10,000 meters down; the animals living in the Abyssal Plains (described in a lovely Scottish accent); and the story of Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh going down to the Mariana Trench in 1960. No one has been back there since, but director James Cameron and Richard Branson are among the contenders who are going to make a go of it. (Rumour has it that Cameron intends to be the sole person in the sub, while Branson is just financing a team.) Meanwhile, the Doer team (backed by Eric Schmidt of Google), says it's all about the science and not just being first in this century's race. And there's even a yellow submarine for the rest of us, if by "rest of us" one means "has $250,000 to spare for a single trip". Don't forget to click the links at the top of the infographic page to see everything.

What was that movie.......

bradth27 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:46:12 -0800

The Dream of the Giant Turtle....... The Bermuda Depths! Remember that "made for tv" movie from the seventies with the gigantic turtle, and the girl with the weird glowing eyes, and the creepy song, and...and then there was.... Carl Weathers, and Burl Ives??? Well, lots of other people do too. There's even an online petition (snicker) to "force" Anchor Bay Entertainment to release the film on DVD. Until then, I suppose Youtube will do.