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'Whether it's for aquaculture, marine protected areas, seabed mining, or search parties for missing airlines or Second World War warheads, every ocean project can be improved with a knowledge of what's on the seabed'. After 28 days at sea, the Surveyor mapped 6,400 nautical miles of seafloor, running mostly on renewable energy. That effort might not have been necessary had a detailed map of the ocean floor already existed, believes Brian Connon, vice president of mapping at Saildrone - a company pioneering new, nimbler methods map the seabed. [Extracted from the article] |
