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WHOI ADVANCED IMAGING AND VISUALIZATION LAB<\/span>The Nereus underwater: destroyed at a depth of 10 km WHOI ADVANCED IMAGING AND VISUALIZATION LAB<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Researchers at the US Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) lost access to an unexplored region of the Pacific Ocean after the Nereus, a subaquatic, unmanned vehicle, collapsed due to external water pressure after reaching a depth of 10 kilometers below sea level.\u00a0 On May 9, 2014, the scientists that controlled the submarine from a ship stopped receiving the images sent by the Nereus’ five cameras.\u00a0 The accident was confirmed only after researchers found pieces of the vehicle floating in the water.\u00a0 “The loss of the Nereus is a tragedy for the study of the abyssal zone.\u00a0 We cannot explore two thirds of the ocean’s depths without an unmanned vehicle,” said Tim Shank, a biologist and head of the mission, to the journal Nature<\/i>.\u00a0 Scientists involved in the project said research is expected to continue and that there is already an ongoing project to replace the Nereus.\u00a0 On its first voyage, in 2009, the submarine discovered a new species of anemone in a region known as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 In 2011, the equipment was incorporated into Hadal Ecosystem Studies, a National Science Foundation international program to determine the composition and distribution of species within the ecosystem of abyssal trenches that are more than 6 kilometers deep.\u00a0 Only the Nereus and three other submarines have been able to reach a depth of about 11 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subaquatic, unmanned vehicle, collapsed due to water pressure","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-152635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152635"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=152635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}