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Standup Paddleboard Expedition for Great Lakes Research

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SUP for Great Lakes research

This June, Joe Lorenz, Kwin Morris and Jeff Guy plan to paddleboard across Lake Erie, traversing international waters and rough waves and dodging toxic algae blooms, all in an effort to raise awareness of Great Lakes environmental issues. Their goal is to fundraise $10,000 for the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. They’ll begin their adventure at Belle Isle State Park, home of the Dawson Great Lakes Museum, and

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Live-Streaming Underwater

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Tommy Riparetti hopes to captivate Web viewers with lively commentary from a media control room on the EV Nautilus research ship as the ROVs Hercules and Argus explore new ocean depths of the Cordell Bank, a marine sanctuary off the coast of San Francisco. A science communication fellow for the Nautilus Exploration Program, Riparetti will be sitting next to scientists and

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Arctic Ocean Row Speed Record

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Five international athletes have completed the first of the Polar Row’s two rows, shattering the previous Arctic Ocean speed record. This achievement makes the world’s fastest ocean rower, Fiann Paul, the first person in history to row four oceans. This first leg of the expedition departed Tromsø, Norway, July 20, and the team rowed across the Barents Sea, encountering strong

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Bahamas Deep-Sea Survey

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OceanGate Expeditions and The Cape Eleuthera Institute will embark on a Bahamas deep-sea survey of the twilight zone of the Exuma Sound using the manned submersible Cyclops 1. Beginning in October 2017, with multiple weeks of diving each season over a year, the exploration aims to uncover new details on deep-sea sharks and the variety of species that inhabit the

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First Manned Sub Survey of Titanic Since 2005

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OceanGate Expeditions will conduct the first manned submersible expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic since 2005. The survey expedition team will use the latest subsea imaging technology and a newly built manned submersible to assess the condition of the shipwreck and document artifacts in the debris field. The exploration team will conduct annual surveys of the wreck in

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