What is the newest technology for sea research?

Question

In the deep sea.
What are the newest discoveries in the deep blue sea?

Please scientific answers.
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Answer 1

That there is no deep blue sea.....

Answer 2

Latest technologies:

The National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology and NOAA’s ... Marine Research Center (CMRC), are using the latest technical diving technology of using a underwater robots to map deep portions of Oculina Bank, a unique 100 mile (160 kilometers) stretch of coral mounds off the east coast of Florida.

First goal is to map a series of coral recolonization experiments (concrete structures) deployed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and academic partners over the past 10 years. Scientists are hoping to see new recruitment of corals and reef fish to the concrete structures deployed in the late 1990s, in areas where coral was extensively damaged.

Second goal is to map deep portions of the Experimental Closed Area, in waters that have not been mapped before using multi-beam sonar. These unmapped areas may contain undiscovered coral patches and tilefish burrow communities, which the AUV (Autonomous Underwater vehicles) can detect and map for the first time. The High techocean mapping robots will be deployed from NASA’s space shuttle booster rocket recovery.

You can read more about it here:http://www.uncw.edu/nurc/auv/oculina2006/

For more interesting info. about underwater research, you can check out the great website below which has live webcams too where you can watch work going on in the Aquarius Sea lab, you can also see the Gazabo, a structure connected to the Aquaious and there is another webcam with views of what is going on outside the lab.

http://www.uncw.edu/nurc/index.htm#

Answer 3

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