In March 2020, a team of ocean scientists set out to observe, document, and characterize deep-sea biodiversity in the Cape Range and Ningaloo Canyons - regions off Western Australia, where little exploration had taken place. Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor, along with their underwater robot, Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) SuBastian, collected beautiful visual surveys and sampling of the environment, providing important evidence for the unique life forms and geologic structures of this little-studied region. The remote Western Australian coast is well known for its immense diversity of evolutionary significant fauna, but this celebrated area remained almost unexplored until this first-of-its-kind expedition.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Good. Mainland worldwide at the time was analogous to being on a cruise now.

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