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I work in the subsea industry and when our ship has planned downtime we're allowed to go do marine research, basically just looking at the marine life that gro
by gehsty 14y ago
I work in the subsea industry and when our ship has planned downtime we're allowed to go do marine research, basically just looking at the marine life that grows on and around structures at >1000m. So it does happen. Just on a very small scale!
- DanBC 14y agoI'm amazed that someone with FU Money hasn't funded some kind of underwater equipment to be bolted onto ships like yours, and a website to collate that data and any other data that people want to contribute. A bunch of data isn't science, but it's a start. I guess it's a problem that most submarines are military vessels - they could collect lots of data but releasing that data is tricky.
- gehsty 14y agoI tend to work in Oil and Gas, on the subsea installation side of things, the Oil Company doesn't like to advertise the position of subsea assets so I guess making data on them freely available is out of the question. I think the research project we worked on was call Serpent, it might be worth a google.. Also to record subsea date you dont need a manned submarine, ROVs are used day in day out and now AUVs are used more often.
- eshvk 14y agoJames Cameron did that exactly. [1] 1. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-returns-science-sub/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james...