Deep Ocean Surveys

Thursday, 21 September 2023

Latest News for: Deep ocean surveys

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Mystery ‘golden egg’ found on ocean floor

Dawn 09 Sep 2023

Ocean researchers using a remotely operated survey vehicle were amazed last week when they spotted the strange item on a rock about 3,300 meters (two miles) deep in the Gulf of Alaska ... “Isn’t the deep sea so delightfully strange?” wonwdered Sam Candio, an NOAA Ocean Exploration coordinator.

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Delightfully strange: Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor

Raw Story 08 Sep 2023

Ocean researchers using a remotely operated survey vehicle were amazed last week when they spotted the strange item on a rock about 3,300 meters (two miles) deep in the Gulf of Alaska ... "Isn't the deep sea so delightfully strange?" wondered Sam Candio, an NOAA Ocean Exploration coordinator.

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Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor

Gulf News 08 Sep 2023

Ocean researchers using a remotely operated survey vehicle were amazed last week when they spotted the strange item on a rock about 3,300 meters (two miles) deep in the Gulf of Alaska ... "Isn't the deep sea so delightfully strange?" wondered Sam Candio, an NOAA Ocean Exploration coordinator.

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Scientists find “golden egg” on ocean floor — and still don’t know what it is

Sandhills Express 08 Sep 2023

Ocean researchers using a remotely operated survey vehicle were amazed last week when they spotted the strange item on a rock about two miles deep in the Gulf of Alaska ... “We often find things in the deep ocean that we haven’t seen before or don’t immediately recognize, because the ...

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Obsessed with the ocean, a writer takes the plunge

Daily Press 17 Aug 2023

While researching her new book, “The Underworld,” about the otherworldly inhabitants of the deep ocean and the explorers and scientists who are surveying these uncharted depths, Casey ventured down in deep sea submersibles, visiting eerie, alien landscapes that no humans had ever seen.

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Letter: Many ironies implied in sinking of Titan while searching wreck of Titanic

The Salem News 26 Jun 2023

That tiny, newly developed, high technology craft lost contact with its mother ship while taking extremely wealthy passengers on its second voyage to survey the wreck of the famous, old, ocean liner, RMS Titanic, lying deep on the floor of the North Atlantic, 900 miles from Cape Cod.

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Letter: Many ironies in sinking of Titan at wreck of Titanic

Eagle-Tribune 24 Jun 2023

That tiny, newly developed, high technology craft lost contact with its mother ship while taking five extremely wealthy passengers on its second voyage to survey the wreck of the famous, old, ocean liner, RMS Titanic, lying deep on the floor of the North Atlantic, 900 miles from Cape Cod.

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MBARI Collaborates with 3D at Depth on a New Detailed Design of the Next Generation ...

Victoria Advocate 20 Jun 2023

MBARI began testing 3D at Depth's technology with the first-generation subsea LiDAR system (the SL1) in 2013 and incorporated the sensor into the institute's Low-Altitude Survey System (LASS) that can be attached to MBARI's remotely operated vehicles to map and image the deep ocean floor.

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The future of medicine may lie in space

CNN 17 Jun 2023

The deep waters also circulate nutrients across the ocean. However, the vital water mass is in decline in the Weddell Sea due to long-term changes in winds and sea ice, according to the British Antarctic Survey, which indicated the trend could have far-reaching consequences for the climate crisis and deep ocean ecosystems.

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Portsmouth's 400th anniversary parade celebrates city's past, present and future

Portsmouth Herald 03 Jun 2023

... with crowds packed into Market Square stretching several rows deep ... Joining the ex-Royal Navy sailors were representatives of the 13,500-ton, 432-foot-long HMS Scott, a deep ocean survey vessel that ported in Portsmouth on Friday with the help of tugboats, along with Dr.

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Over 5,000 Deep Sea Creatures Found In Area At Risk Of Rare Metal Mining

IFL Science 26 May 2023

A total of 5,578 different species, around 90 percent of which are entirely new to science, have been found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean in a future hotspot for deep-sea mining ... that traverse the ocean floor and taking sediment samples of the seafloor using a box corer.

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More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot

Democratic Underground 25 May 2023

Scientists have discovered more than 5,000 new species living on the seabed in an untouched area of the Pacific Ocean that has been identified as a future hotspot for deep-sea mining, according to a review of the environmental surveys done ...

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Cornish engineering firm acquired by national business

The Business Desk 14 May 2023

An award engineering business based in Cornwall has been acquired for an undisclosed sum ... The company built its reputation by carrying out marine geotechnical surveys. This involves going out into deep oceans and sending down specialised electronic systems to conduct tests to work out certain properties of the ocean floor ... Previous Article ... .

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Deep ocean mission to drive growth of ‘Blue Economy’: Jitendra Singh

Live Mint 10 May 2023

The mission consists of developing technology for deep sea mining, manned submersible, and underwater robotics, ocean and climate change advisory services, technology innovations for exploration and conservation of deep sea biodiversity, deep ocean survey and exploration, energy ...

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The "Impossible" Fish That Broke Two Deep Sea Records

The Maritime Executive 23 Apr 2023

The deep ocean has yet again shown us there is still much to be discovered if we only have the willingness to look ... But when we do explore the deep ocean, we are often rewarded with new discoveries ... Why deep ocean discoveries matter ... Landers being deployed on a deep ocean survey in the Maldives.