The wreck of Capt. Robert F. Scott’s Terra Nova, as seen from the brow cameras of Alvin People often ask me if I have a single favorite dive in Alvin,…
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Over the past 25 years or so I’ve been involved in many projects using remotely operated vehicles to collect high-resolution images of the seafloor and stitch them together to create…
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“To be underwater, or not to be underwater? That is the question.”– Hamlet (If Shakespeare had worked in deep submergence) Which is better for scientific research, a remotely operated vehicle…
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Notes on the plan of Quest based on observations by the remotely operated vehicle help guide Alvin pilots over the wreck on the seafloor. (Photo by Ken Kostel, © Woods…
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The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in partnership with WHOI, will undertake “once-in-a-generation” expedition to survey Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Quest and Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova. Read more >
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U.S. Navy certification permits the sub to resume operations to 6,500 meters after a routine overhaul. Read more >
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Find out from Benen Elshakhs, a WHOI mechanical engineer and pilot of the deepest-diving crewed submersible in the US!
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“Use of the newly refitted Alvin submersible was especially helpful for observing the deepest-dwelling fish of the study.”
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