Deep-Sea Exploration to Conduct High-Tech Survey of Florida's Endangered Coral Reefs

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 08:21 in Earth & Climate

Currently, there are better maps of the surface of the moon and Mars than the sea bottom off Florida's coastline. A unique, deep-sea expedition using cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) will create high definition sonar maps of the coastline of Florida's rare and vulnerable deep sea coral reefs for the first time.

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