The expedition will bring two scientists and one pilot to some of the deepest parts of the ocean humans have ever travelled.
SAN DIEGO — Scripps Oceanography Scientists are set to take their deepest dive yet. Scientists will travel more than 16,000 feet down to explore how methane is impacting our marine life and how it could even help climate change above the surface. It was named after an engineer and geophysicist who helped pioneer research expeditions like this. Since its launch in 1964, Alvin has made more than 5,000 dives, giving more than 14,000 scientists and engineers rare access to the ocean floor.
"Those are actually windows you look out of, Lisa Levin said, as she gave us a tour of the submersible. Levin is a Deep Sea Ecologist and Professor Emerita at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They'll be about four miles down off the coast of Alaska. The team will explore our deep-sea ecosystems and how marine life and microbe bacteria are interacting with the naturally occurring methane that's seeping from the sea floor. They want to explore how humans could benefit from capturing it.
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