Submarines present amazing solutions for many purposes not least for science and exploration purposes. Carrying out any type of work, observation or the like under water comes with a number of challenges, many of which are quickly and efficiently removed by the use of Submarines. Using conventional SCUBA diving method an observer would not only...Read More

CNN Joins Us In One of Our Submarines. Reports On Hollywood Sewage Outfall   CNN reporter, Boris Sanchez, recently came diving with GlobalSubDive in one of our Triton submarines and we visited the Hollywood Sewage Outfall, so he might see with his own eyes the visceral image of the millions of gallons of effluent that...Read More

In preparation of our upcoming missions we have taken receipt of our new plungers. The plungers, which actually are Sediment Coring Devices and not really plungers, are used to grab samples of the ocean bottom. The manipulator arm on the submarine  (see image below) will take one of these plungers out of its holder and...Read More

Fort Lauderdale – Project Baseline, a global conservation effort that invites divers and water lovers alike to systematically document marine and freshwater environments, is delivering valuable exploration assets to a multi-disciplinary alliance of the world’s leading ocean scientists, media organizations, business leaders, philanthropists, educators, and civil leaders under a newly formed research organization, Nekton. Nekton’s...Read More

First Test Dives Successful The Nekton mission is officially under way. Launched just the other day in Bermuda we are now three days into the mission. GlobalSubDive’s exploration platform, the 146′ exploration vessel Baseline Explorer, is filled to the brim with equipment for the mission including of course its two invaluable Triton submarines. Scientists, skilled...Read More

What’s it all about? The first mission – Mission One – of the series of missions that the newly established Nekton has planned had the following four main objectives. The first objective was about assessing the health of the deep ocean and in the process creating a standardized methodology of physical, chemical and biological indicators...Read More

Oliver Steeds, a 40-year old father of two young children and formerly successful investigative journalist, dropped the journalist career about 5 years ago in a quest to help save the oceans. The past 3 years he has concentrated on putting the Nekton / Catling Deep Ocean Survey together which resulted in the massive month-long expedition in...Read More

It has been a very busy summer for GlobalSubDive. Mid July we headed off on course to Bermuda on a mission with Nekton. This specific mission represented the first in a series of missions that Nekton has planned and was a pioneering international and multi-disciplinary scientific research programme using some of the most cutting-edge subsea...Read More