Climbing aboard the Calcutta

Check out our efforts at climbing aboard the Calcutta. Transferring between the tender and the Calcutta is tricky in active seas.

Tender transfer

Tender transfer between the Golden Shadow and the tender is a tricky operation when the swells are up.

Photo-Documenting a Legacy Site

St. Kitts and Nevis Mission, June 2011, Global Reef Expedition. It takes multiple divers to accomplish photo-documenting a Legacy Site. In this video, Jason Phillip photographs every Montastraea in the entire 10m x 10m grid. Dr. Emma Grigg winds up …

Diving in rough seas at Great Inagua Island Bahamas

Divers must use extreme caution when approaching the dive boat while diving in rough seas at Great Inagua Island Bahamas under strong ocean currents during the Global Reef Expedition.  Video by Amanda Williams, Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation

James Bond Meets Coral Research: The Golden Eye Seaplane

The Golden Eye is a Cessna Caravan 208 Amphibious Aircraft embarked aboard the Golden Shadow.  The aircraft has tremendous endurance and can carry up to a maximum of 11 passengers and 2 pilots.  We have often installed a sophisticated hyperspectral …

Side View of the Golden Osprey

Here’s a great side view video of the Golden Osprey ocean research vessel taken at Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas during the Global Reef Expedition.

The ROVie

This ROV Movie (ROVie) was taken during the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Farasan Bank Expedition.

18 May 2006 : Fact of the Day – Dive Operations

This Dive Operations Video was taken aboard the Golden Shadow ocean research vessel during the Farasan Islands Expedition in the Red Sea. “The Golden Shadow has been a very busy diving platform for the past two weeks of research in …