The ship, commissioned in Seattle in 2008, is back for the first time, having just explored some of the deepest places off the Pacific Northwest coast.
“We dove a canyon off of Oregon and a canyon off of Washington and we saw completely different biological communities,” said Alexis Weinnig, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, one of the scientists aboard the Okeanos Explorer.Mechanical arms sometimes collect samples from the sea floor.“We have a number of thrusters and controllers that are able to keep the ship very precisely positioned,” Little said.
Video of each dive is sent back live to researchers all over the world, who can talk with the scientists aboard.
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