The 2019 DEEP SEARCH mission was a great success! From April 9 to 30, 2019, NOAA and partners at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a research expedition on NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown to collect critical baseline information about deepwater habitats offshore the U.S. Mid- and South Atlantic coasts. The team battled some stormy weather that forced them to run and adapt their plans, but the whole team worked together and did an exceptional job in p

Did you know that the vast majority of our planet is deep ocean, representing the largest living space on Earth? Yet we know very little about what lies below the depths of the ocean's surface. This video features highlights from the March 10 of the Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaii expedition. The dive was on a ridge extending to the southeast of Castellano Seamount, starting at a depth of ~2,000 meters. [Source: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1603/dailyupdate