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Home Science & Technology Submersibles ROV Deep Discoverer Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer is owned by NOAA Ocean Exploration and was built and continues to be maintained and operated by the Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration (GFOE) . Deep Discoverer (also known as “D2”) is operated off NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer with its companion vehicle,…

Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry, and the possible harms it could do to ecosystems as companies push to begin full-scale exploration of the ocean floor as early as this year.The Metals Company (TMC), a Canadian…

A massive research initiative to explore deep-sea creatures brought discoveries to light in the northern Pacific Ocean last year, when scientists filmed and captured three fish at depths never recorded before.As part of a 10-year collaborative study between the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology that was funded…

Several years ago I climbed overboard into the clear waters of Haiti, and after a copper helmet had been lowered over my head and shoulders I slid slowly down a rope two, four, eight, ten fathoms and finally at sixty-three feet my canvas shoes settled into the soft ooze near a coral reef. I made…

Scientists have found more than 30 potentially new species living at the bottom of the sea.Researchers from the UK’s Natural History Museum used a remotely operated vehicle to collect specimens from the abyssal plains of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific. Previously, creatures from this area had been studied only from photographs.The study, published…