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"It’s April 5 2025 and I'm sitting in a deep submersible vehicle, the
Bakunawa.
We're about 1,360 kilometres from the nearest port and about to drop into the
ocean.
I'm a marine geoscientist and it's my first expedition as a co-chief scientist.
Only a few hundred people have ever been to the bottom of the open ocean, and
my pilot Reuben Kent and I are the first to visit this particular area.
The area we're diving to is unique. It's where new seafloor is being created as
tectonic plates pull apart. My team has explored places where the ocean floor
dives beneath the land, but never anywhere like this.
We don't fully know what animals and geological formations will be down there,
so that's why we have to go see for ourselves."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
