At the BBC science writer Jonathan Amos has a good example of a small story written short, yet large. His topic is a survey of a submarine hill that the UK's National Oceanography Centre has underway. It employs a standard-looking (to me) underwater autonomous vehicle, or submersible, called the autosub6000. If...
Category: submersible vehicles
At the BBC science writer Jonathan Amos has a good example of a small story written short, yet large. His topic is a survey of a submarine hill that the UK's National Oceanography Centre has underway. It employs a standard-looking (to me) underwater autonomous vehicle, or submersible, called the autosub6000. If it had people on board it would be submarine but as there is nothing but gadgets and motors and batteries etc. inside, it is a submersible.
From a somewhat obscure event Amos produces a portrait of the stuff the machines operators are seeing plus its local and ocean-wide context. That includes changes suspected to be underway in the sea that could change weather across much of the globe and, in the sea itself, have serious impact on fisheries that are in plenty of trouble as it is.
The pic BBC used isn't so good. The one with this post is from an earlier cruise, as presented...
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