ASU BIOS's deep ocean advantage

June 08, 2026

Crew aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer during a Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) research cruise, November 2024.

In just under two hours, scientists sailing from Bermuda can be sampling the deep ocean, lowering instruments thousands of meters below the surface to collect water untouched by sunlight for centuries. For the ASU BIOS this remarkable access to the open ocean has underpinned decades of globally significant research


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