{"id":4246,"date":"2016-06-30T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T06:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:15:07","slug":"the-rotting-dolphin-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=4246","title":{"rendered":"The Rotting Dolphin Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to get on a boat this month, so yes, I have remained dry.<\/p>\n<p>I feel as though I have gained a few pounds, so I hope I can still fit into my wet suit when I finally get back into the water.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I came across a sort of bizarre article about a guy who obtained a dead dolphin and then sunk it to the bottom of the ocean to document its decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Kisfaludy, a marine biologist and National Geographic grantee, received a call from a guy who found a dead dolphin that was washed up on shore.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of throwing the dolphin in the trash, it was re-purposed for his experiment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin3.jpg\" alt=\"A SCUBA Diver\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin3-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the article, the dolphin was placed at a &#8220;shallow&#8221; 180 feet where the rotting corpse created a whole new mini-ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin1.jpg\" alt=\"A rotting Dolphin\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As strange as this world has been lately, Kisfaludy has been given credit as the first guy to ever document the underwater decomposition of a dolphin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin2.jpg\" alt=\"A rotting Dolphin\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/rottingdolphin2-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The entire article, with a short video, can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/06\/30\/underwater-time-lapse-dolphin-carcass-seafloor\/\" title=\"Filming a Time-Lapse of a Dolphin Carcass on the Seafloor is No Easy Task\" target=\"_blank\">Filming a Time-Lapse of a Dolphin Carcass on the Seafloor is No Easy Task<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to get on a boat this month, so yes, I have remained dry. I feel as though I have gained a few pounds, so I hope I can still fit into my wet suit when I finally get back into the water. Anyway, I came across a sort of bizarre article about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}