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“There are hundreds of species, and each of them has a unique response to what we are doing to the ocean.” Thousands of years of climate history lies hidden in the remains of tiny single-celled planktonic organisms with a perforated chalky shell. In this week’s video update, find out how the #DeepCoralAdventure researchers seek to unlock the … Continued

Nearly five weeks ago I left the quiet and solitude of my studio to embark on this voyage of deep ocean discovery on the invitation of the Schmidt Ocean Institute with R/V Falkor. This gift of an adventure to some of the most remote, most unexplored parts of our biosphere was an unexpected and a … Continued

“Until you go down and explore, you just don’t know…. it is a straightforward wonderland of what mother nature can do.” Check out the research team’s discoveries and reasonings, while tracing the Bremer Canyon from colorful sponge gardens at “shallow” depths around 200 meters to the wonders of amazing life flourishing at more than 3,000 … Continued

When a whale dies, it becomes a source of food for a host of other animals. If the dead whale’s carcass makes it to the bottom of the ocean, their death can give life to a new, extreme type of ecosystem. Explore this unique type of oasis, more than 1,500 meters deep in the Bremer … Continued

On board the Falkor, we are extremely fortunate to have a multidisciplinary team of scientists contributing their expertise to improve our understanding of the Bremer, Leeuwin, and Perth deep-sea canyons. One essential component of this voyage is creating detailed maps of the bathymetry – or shape – of the seafloor. To map the seafloor, we … Continued