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Private Investigators

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Links

Here are a few CommCore links of interest:

Blue Planet

• Fantasy Flight Games: Blue Planet v2  - publishers of the game
• Blue Planet: Biohazard Games  - creators of the game
• Tidewater Grill: Blue Planet Mailing List
• Bleue Planète v2  - Jérôme Darmont's page, in French
• Eva's Blue Planet Page
• StormSurge  - a Blue Planet play-by-e-mail (PBeM) game
• Dark Water
• BlueDive's Blue Planet Page - including a nice Excel character generator
• Neil Smith's Blue Planet pages - with some neat and original resources
• Chalz's Blue Planet (v2) Page – with cute printable PDFs of BP vehicle models, found under the BP Tools
• GURPS Uplift, 2nd ed. - from Steve Jackson Games (they also make GURPS Blue Planet and TransHuman Space supplements).  For David Brin's Uplift universe, which surely must have inspired Blue Planet to a large extent.  Check out the cool dolphin mini.
• Wargames Foundry's line of Street Violence miniatures.  Many can work well for Blue Planet characters.

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Cetaceans

• Culture in whales and dolphins
• Indonesia Oceanic Cetacean Program
• Vancouver Aquarium
• Beluga Whales
• Greenpeace Germany
• WhaleResearch.org
• International Marine Mammal Association (IMMA)
• Society for Marine Mammalogy

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Oceanography and Marine Biology

• SeaWeb
• The Ocean Conservancy
• World Wildlife Fund's Ocean Rescue
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Equipe Cousteau/Cousteau Society
• Smithsonian Institution Marine Science
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• The Oceanography Society
• NOVA Online: Into the Abyss
• Mission Into the Abyss

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Marine Technology

• DiveWeb
• Poseidon Undersea resort
• Undersea Habitat 2030
• NOAA's Aquarius
• Marine Technology Society
• Center for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Research
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Naval Oceanographic Office AUV Program
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• Royal Navy Submarine Museum
• Submarine World Network
• Odyssea Submarine
• Sea Launch

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Space Exploration

• Searching for the 'real' waterworld – on the European Space Agency site

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Inspirations: Movies, Books

• Whale Rider  - Natives and whales, that should give you at least a bit of atmosphere!  A good movie.
• The Uplift Gateway  - unofficial guide to David Brin's Uplift universe
• The Submarine Movies Store - from Das Boöt to K-19: The Widowmaker, from The Enemy Below to The Hunt for Red October
• Stories and Tales of the Coast & Geodetic Survey - real life material on NOAA's page, should put you in a spirit of exploration
• Reefsong: The book that best resembles the Blue Planet setting, and the Island Warrior series, that illustrate a "Native" perspective, all by Carol Severance.

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