After going missing on Christmas Day five years ago, deep ocean measuring equipment belonging to the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has just been found on a beach in Tasmania by a local resident after making an incredible 14,000 km journey across the ocean. In 2011, this deep-ocean lander instrument was deployed by NOC scientists […]
Robot Cameras Monitor Deep Sea Ecosystems
Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have used advanced photographic tools in an unmanned Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to make major advancements in estimating deep-sea ecosystem diversity at ‘landscape’ scales. By using a camera on the Autosub6000 AUV to take a continuous stream of high resolution photographs of life on the sea floor, this […]