Scientists are along for the ride as Virgin oceanic examines the deepest parts of our oceans.Virgin oceanicRichard Branson plans to deep dive boat to the bottom of the ocean pilot only the latest adventure for the entrepreneur behind the Virgin brand can sound. But the Virgin oceanic mission, unveiled this week by a team of scientists planning groundbreaking marine research supported by.
The project aims an a man u boat on the deepest parts of the sea, beginning with the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. This is the first manned exploration of the area as one of the Trieste submersible pump unparalleled depth of more than 10 km record of voyaging on the bottom of the Challenger deep region of the divide of 1960.
A number of remote checkpoints are sent as well as the manned u-boot in the deep scientific carrying equipment. Nature a marine microbiologist on the Scripps said institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and Katrina Edwards, a biologist at the University of Southern California, with Douglas Bartlett research team members, to learn, what they hope Los Angeles.
What inspires you about this project?
DB: I was surprised to hear, but certainly excited about the manned expedition. The dream, the Chris Welsh [Virgin oceanic chief pilot] had was: it would be not wonderful to go along with this if it could be some significant science?
Get if the Trieste, had only very, very preliminary observations set out on the bottom of Challenger deep it there for only 20 minutes the area was and made it back to the surface up. I think it's a lot of potential with manned vehicles for exploration, in conjunction with autonomous underwater vehicles and vehicles with external control.
What do you get from it?
DB: It is not difficult, the things deep down, is it difficult get it back. The wonderful development has taken place in recent years is the use of high-pressure resistant glass beads. We use these buoyancy devices offer and tethering to avoid ships. The engineer, I might think with work - Kevin Hardy – to this untethered instruments as the pickups of the deep ocean. You can include all sorts of things to them.
We get water, we get sediments, we can be a filtration of the ocean floor laid so that we can concentrate the microbes in the Sea close to. We can be the equivalent of perhaps thousands liters seawater doing microbes that have.
FEATURE: My own organization main contribution is more along the lines which helps them to collect physical data on videography, still images and bathometric data about the geology and geochemistry of the Graben environments.
This is where the data is limited. We have not many physical information at all about this really remote environments. Compilation one comprehensive set of hypotheses about what exactly goes down in geology, geochemistry and microbiology, in particular, is really untrodden ground for the most part.
Which devices except the Virgin u-boot in this project will be involved in?
DB: The u-boot is in the mapping-be very valuable from the environment. It can help set the stage for future scientific missions. If this sub out there is discovery cold seeps and mud volcanoes and new areas where clam fields and microbial mats and who, which are white, is, that the interest of various marine biologists and geologists call. The most of it falling off the water and sediment samples, and that is to study at actually getting material in a detailed manner.
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KE: I hope, some microbiology samples back, mainly through that to get landers. But can all the information that they gain from the Sub on the physical layout of what there is to the development of projects that are more easily sold to our national funding agencies can be used. They know that scientists know what they want to go, and they want to go on fishing expeditions. For remote environments, we have so little information that it is almost impossible to go proposals of any national or international organization and to collect samples. Power driving a key in such efforts on the road could be the information that we win.
How will the samples actually inform your research?
FEATURE: My personal interests are in the part play microbes in geological processes. The Mariana Trench has, for example, a number of mud of volcanoes, the the result of the important reactions that down into the crust. Understand which role which have microbes in this type of reaction is key in my world.
DB: we will be able to isolate individual microbial cells and to clarify their genome sequences. It high-throughput are methods now microbes, which enable us, for the breeding them for their potential biotechnological value characterize. Never yet, a better time was exploring this environment, because we can do it much more detail than even before the people could think.
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