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The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research is the only federal organization currently dedicated to exploring our unknown ocean. From our skilled staff to our tools and technologies and our ability to deliver data accurately and fast, our unique capabilities are helping to advance knowledge and understanding needed to help citizens, businesses, and governments make smart choices to protect lives, property, and economic wellbeing.
There's a lot of exploration left to do...who's with us?!
For more reasons why ocean exploration matters, see: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/world-oceans-day/index.html
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research is the only federal organization currently dedicated to exploring our unknown ocean. From our skilled staff to our tools and technologies and our ability to deliver data accurately and fast, our unique capabilities are helping to advance knowledge and understanding needed to help citizens, businesses, and governments make smart choices to protect lives, property, and economic wellbeing.
There's a lot of exploration left to do...who's with us?!
For more reasons why ocean exploration matters, see: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/world-oceans-day/index.html
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research





![Midwater Journey: Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin
On May 6, 2017, after finishing exploration of the seafloor around a seamount on a seamount dubbed Keliihananui, we conducted a series of midwater transects from 1,400 to 300 meters (~4,595 to 985 feet) depth. These transects increase our knowledge about the largest, yet one of the least understood, biomes on Earth. The dive took place in the Jarvis Unit of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which is one of the few units of the monument where the water column is protected in addition to the seafloor.
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin.
Learn more about the expedition: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1705/welcome.html
[Source: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1705/logs/photolog/welcome.html#cbpi=/okeanos/explorations/ex1705/dailyupdates/media/video/dive06-midwater/midwater.html] Midwater Journey: Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MMrlTCH2H3I/mqdefault.jpg)




