The talented Global Sub Dive team of submersible pilots, Robert Carmichael, Randy Holt, and Shane Zigler together with the Nekton Mission First Descent crew of scientists, explorers, researchers, and media have been tirelessly working aboard the Ocean Zephyr to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean. Join them LIVE tomorrow March 12, 2019 at 1...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
