Deep Sea Exploration History: Vehicles and Discoveries

99.999% of the deep seafloor remains unexplored 🔍️🌊 In almost 70 years of deep-sea exploration, humans have still only observed an area smaller than the city of London. What’s more, the majority of these dives have focused on coastal waters near high-income nations, leading to a gap in our knowledge of the vast majority of the open ocean and less developed countries. This lack of data, and bias in the data we do have, is significant. The deep ocean plays a key role in climate, biodiversity and