#MarineScience - Marine scientists from Ireland, the UK, US and Germany are starting to examine data collected from the Marine Institute's recent research mission to the Whittard Canyon in the North Atlantic, according to RTÉ News.
As previously reported on Afloat.ie, researchers spent two weeks earlier this month exploring the sea bed of the deep ocean canyon some 250 miles southwest of Cork, using the institute's ROV Holland I to study the diversity of marine wildlife at depths of as much as 3km below the surface.
Among their finds so far is a rare black coral, while samples of deep sea sponge were also taken for analysis of climactic changes to the subsea ecosystem. RTÉ News has more on the story, including video, HERE.