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Do researchers from disciplines like history and marine biology ever pool their resources for missions like this, just to explore uncharted areas of the ocean d

by koboll 8y ago

Do researchers from disciplines like history and marine biology ever pool their resources for missions like this, just to explore uncharted areas of the ocean deep to discover what's down there? It seems like there's so much opportunity across so many fields to discover new things by exploring the oceans.

pvg 8y ago
There's a lot of ocean and sea out there so 'just exploring' uncharted regions probably won't produce much in a reasonable amount of time. In this particular case, the relative absence of marine biology at certain depths (and, of course, proximity to the settlements of ancient civilizations) is part of what makes the Black Sea interesting to archeologists.
karavelov 8y ago
Black Sea is dead below 100-150m due to lack of oxigen - there is no live there, and this is the reason why we can find preserved recks from 2400 years ago. Edit: so there is no much interest from maritime biology.
- close04 8y ago
  One more issue is that it's prohibitively expensive and very challenging technically to explore the bottom of oceans and seas properly. Any exploration needs a lot of support from the surface, equipment that can stand a very taxing environment (perhaps more so than in space), and the water covered parts of the planet are huge. Unless it's for oil very few bother surveying under those bodies of water.
- adrianN 8y ago
  Well, "dead" as in not much life, but there is an anaerobic ecosystem down there.
- RankingMember 8y ago
  Interestingly, it seems that the reason another old (though not nearly as old as this one) shipwreck (Vasa) was so well preserved is that humans polluted the water too much for life to survive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
- rv-de 8y ago
  Why is there oxygen lacking at such a small depth while oceans provide oxygen for fish at several thousand meters below the surface?
philipodonnell 8y ago
That's how they found this one.

by koboll 8y ago

pvg 8y ago

There's a lot of ocean and sea out there so 'just exploring' uncharted regions probably won't produce much in a reasonable amount of time. In this particular case, the relative absence of marine biology at certain depths (and, of course, proximity to the settlements of ancient civilizations) is part of what makes the Black Sea interesting to archeologists.

karavelov 8y ago

Black Sea is dead below 100-150m due to lack of oxigen - there is no live there, and this is the reason why we can find preserved recks from 2400 years ago. Edit: so there is no much interest from maritime biology.

close04 8y ago
One more issue is that it's prohibitively expensive and very challenging technically to explore the bottom of oceans and seas properly. Any exploration needs a lot of support from the surface, equipment that can stand a very taxing environment (perhaps more so than in space), and the water covered parts of the planet are huge. Unless it's for oil very few bother surveying under those bodies of water.
adrianN 8y ago
Well, "dead" as in not much life, but there is an anaerobic ecosystem down there.
RankingMember 8y ago
Interestingly, it seems that the reason another old (though not nearly as old as this one) shipwreck (Vasa) was so well preserved is that humans polluted the water too much for life to survive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
rv-de 8y ago
Why is there oxygen lacking at such a small depth while oceans provide oxygen for fish at several thousand meters below the surface?

philipodonnell 8y ago

That's how they found this one.