A couple of days before I saw the Scientific American article someone dropped this project in our local development group: https://github.com/nikolajbech/underwater-image-color-correc... the repository contains some test images, and they also provide a website to test it out: https://colorcorrection.firebaseapp.com/ that states: "This web-application features a beta version of the Paralenz color correction algorithm, which features an open-source license".

The two projects seems unrelated at first glance, but the timing is interesting.