Scientists Spent A Month Exploring The Gulf Of Mexico's Deep Sea Habitats — And The Images They Brought Back Are Astonishing
There ’s a spectacular , uncharted exotic earth right off the Gulf Coast , and a late National Oceanic and Atmospheric ( NOAA ) dispatch sought to expose its secret . This retiring December , a NOAA team , aboard theOkeanos Explorer , conducted the first of three calendar month - long studies of the inscrutable parts of the Gulf of Mexico , with the dual aim of exploring the diversity of thick - water habitats and single-valued function the seafloor ....