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Diving the deepest hydrothermal vent field in the world – experience it live!

Posted on August 5, 2011 By Andrew Thaler 4 Comments on Diving the deepest hydrothermal vent field in the world – experience it live!
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The Okeanos Explorer is diving on the Cayman Rise – the location of the deepest known hydrothermal vent field, and they are broadcasting the ROV feed live, right now. You can be experiencing this:

One of the deepest hydrothermal vents ever seen.

…right now.

Go here: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html

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4 thoughts on “Diving the deepest hydrothermal vent field in the world – experience it live!”

  1. Patric Douglas says:
    August 5, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    cool, my inner geek is very happy right now…nice way to come home, thanks guys!

  2. Sarah says:
    August 6, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    Thank you for advertising this. I’m watching now and it’s amazing!

  3. RIchard Hendricks says:
    September 1, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    Some of us space geeks used our picture stitching skills on the raw video from the TV from a similar dive. Here’s our thread

    http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=7055

    http://twitpic.com/6ebpcv

  4. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    September 1, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    Way Cool! Thanks for sharing.

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