December 8, 2009 | 1 comments
World's First Internet Undersea Science Station Boots Up [Slide Show]
NEPTUNE Canada, the world's first regional cabled undersea network, promises to usher in a new era of ocean sciences when it goes online December 8.
BENTHIC CRAWLER: Meet Wally the Benthic Crawler, the world's first Internet-operated deep-sea crawler (here astride a gas hydrate outcrop in Barkley Canyon). Wally was designed by ocean scientists at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany to measure conditions such as temperature, salinity, methane content and sediment characteristics at seafloor depth.
Photo taken by ROPOS[[http://ropos.com]], which is operated by the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility.
