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MATE 2008 - Hydrothermal Homeschool

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV Competition is an annual competition of High School and undergraduate college teams to design an underwater ROV and complete a simulated mission using their ROV in a controlled environment (think swimming pool). This year the mission (pdf) was to deploy an ROV to a hydrothermal vent [...]

Saving the Deep

The Alvin on deployment — one of the submersibles used on the Sea Mounts along with the Hercules and Argustandem ROV system.Image from mpi-bremen.de

From Deep Sea News comes a post that is right on time for me. Deep Sea News is a science blog run by a Post-Doc from MBARI, a research assistant from [...]

Journey to the Deep

Jan. 23, 1960: Journey to the Deepest Place on Earth: “Its dive into the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the trench, was made, according to a Navy press release, ‘to demonstrate that the United States possesses the capability for manned exploration of the sea down to the deepest part of its floor.’”
(Via Wired.com)
For me [...]