Exploring the Deep
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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How to Connect People With the Deep Ocean
John Devegan: We have an opportunity that we never had before in terms of connecting people with the deep ocean. With a smart phone you can hook up for free to live feeds from cameras on deep diving, remotely operated vehicles around the world. You can listen to whale song from fom a hydrophone 900 meters deep in monterey bay. There are four thousand floats bobbing about in the ocean, monitoring its conditions and health. These were all kind of specialist resources that even ten years ago, only researches in ocean sciences would have had access to. And now it's there for anyone who wants to dip into it, like a portal to the heart of the ocean.
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