ALPHONSE ISLAND, Seychelles (AP) — A British-led scientific mission ought paper changes taking put below the Indian sea has pronounce its first live, television-quality video transmission from a two-person submersible.
Monsoon storms and barbarous underwater currents continued ought gift a challenge can greater depths because scientific career began can earnest can Tuesday off the Seychelles.
The Associated journal has successfully pronounce the first multi-camera dwell badge can total pronounce goods from manned submersibles using optical video transmission techniques, can which the pictures forward over the waves using the gloomy region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Previous real-time video transmissions from the world's deep oceans were livestreams sent from remotely operated unmanned subsea vehicles, with the video moving via fixed fiber optic cable.
The first transmission came from 60 meters (200 feet) down. prior deep-sea livestreams cataloguing the world's oceans gorge been via fiber-optic cable. The new pronounce uses cutting-edge wireless technology, sending video optically over the waves.
The Associated journal is the only news agency working with British scientists from the Nekton inquiry team can its deep-sea mission that aims ought unlock the secrets of the Indian Ocean, one of the world's least explored areas.
The multi-national team of scientists is assembly data ought aid policy-makers frame protection and conservation measures.
Nekton Mission director Oliver Steeds said the undergo battling the waves underlines the need ought enlarge scientific knowledge of the waters off the island nation, which the team is there ought do.
"The issue is, when it comes ought this place, when it came ought the currents, the persist contemporary data that was gathered ago we came here was can 1882," he said. "It's separate of the challenge. This is exploration."
The engagement of celebration was chop short when an occurrence severed the telegram of a key piece of equipment, leaving it can the sea bed off the tiny island of Alphonse.
It wasn't known what chop the telegram of the Remotely Operated Vehicle, or ROV, although it can gorge been the ship's propeller. The camera-carrying ROV is a principle image-gathering machinery that can advance deeper than the submersibles.
It wasn't transparent what shock the occurrence will gorge can the team's work. The two submersibles will creep a retrieval theorem can Wednesday.
AP video coverage will own exploring the depths of up ought 300 meters off the Seychelles can two-person submarines, the search although submerged mount ranges and previously undiscovered marine life, a behind-the-scenes show can life can board, interviews with researchers and aerial footage of the mission. The seven-week journey is expected ought brook until April 19.
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