Tag: Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV)

• Monday, March 24th 2025 - 08:53 UTC

  Unexpected forms of life found under loose Antarctica iceberg

  

  Researchers found unimagined forms of life under the A-84 iceberg nearly 30 kilometers long and 510 square kilometers in area, which broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica earlier this year, exposing a previously hidden stretch of ocean unseen for decades, it was announced last week.

• Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:13 UTC

  Expedition Confirms Wreck in Argentine Waters is a Submarine

  

  By Laurence de Mello
  
  In a significant milestone, an international Expedition team headed by the ‘Eslabon Perdido Group’ has successfully pinpointed the location of a sunken submarine, resting 4 kilometers off the Argentine coast of Necochea at a depth of 28 meters.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 08:12 UTC

  Searching for Admiral Graf von Spee’s great cruiser fleet sunk at the Falklands Battle

  

  In 2014-2015, to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Falklands, Mensun Bound, a Falkland Islander himself, led an expedition to try to find Admiral Graff von Spee’s lost cruiser squadron in 1914, the whereabouts of which has become one the great mysteries of the maritime world. Now he is resuming the hunt. Mercopress began by asking how it all began.