Cool Science: Upcoming Bering Sea Research

You might remember John Hocevar from Ocean Day. At the end of July, John and the Greenpeace crew will set out to explore the depths of the Bering Sea. They will use some pretty high-tech tools on the expedition, including these Deep Worker submarines, which they tested in a British Columbia inlet not too long ago.

Deep Workers are one-person subs capable of diving to 2000 feet/600 meters. They weigh about 2 tons each, and are smaller than a compact car.

From John Hocevar: The subs will be a good tool for us in the Bering Sea later this summer, where the Greenpeace team will use them to document previously unexplored canyon habitats in hopes of making a legally and publicly compelling case for conservation of these important areas. This type of work is grounded in Greenpeace's history of bearing witness - as we did with nuclear testing, whaling, and the Canadian seal hunt, we will use the subs to travel to a remote, inaccessible location and bring back evidence of man's destruction of nature to policy makers and the public, in order to change the way things are done.

A shot of one of the subs underwater during testing.