{"id":174557,"date":"2023-10-22T00:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-drop-robot-into-dark-ocean-film-weird-brilliant-world"},"modified":"2023-10-22T00:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T05:23:25","slug":"scientists-drop-robot-into-dark-ocean-film-weird-brilliant-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-drop-robot-into-dark-ocean-film-weird-brilliant-world","title":{"rendered":"Scientists drop robot into dark ocean, film weird brilliant world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-drop-robot-into-dark-ocean-film-weird-brilliant-world3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lightless <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/deep-sea-ocean-discoveries\" target=\"_self\">deep sea<\/a> is swirling with life.<\/p>\n<p>New footage captured in the \u201ctwilight zone\u201d \u2014 areas of the ocean starting at around 100 meters (330 feet) deep where sunlight can\u2019t reach \u2014 reveals a world teeming with often otherworldly organisms: long chains of creatures, tentacled life, defensive ink blasted into the water, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>These creatures were filmed around the Geologist Seamounts just south of the Hawaiian islands. The expedition, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s ocean exploration division, allowed scientists to drop a sleek deep sea exploration vehicle, called <a href=\"https:\/\/twilightzone.whoi.edu\/work-impact\/technology\/mesobot\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\"><em>Mesobot<\/em><\/a>, into these dark waters. These remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, can be intrusive to deep ocean life, but <em>Mesobot<\/em>, with a slim design and slow-moving propellers, is designed to avoid frightening wildlife away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lightless deep sea is swirling with life. New footage captured in the \u201ctwilight zone\u201d \u2014 areas of the ocean starting at around 100 meters (330 feet) deep where sunlight can\u2019t reach \u2014 reveals a world teeming with often otherworldly organisms: long chains of creatures, tentacled life, defensive ink blasted into the water, and beyond. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}