Oceana Ranger Expedition 2012: Exploring Ocean Depths - Oceana Europe

Oceana Ranger Expedition 2012: Exploring Ocean Depths

Oceana Ranger Expedition 2012: Exploring Ocean Depths

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Overview

 

©  OCEANA / Gorka Leclercq

The 2012 Ranger expedition documented the deep areas of the Atlantic and Mediterranean using an underwater robot (ROV) will take video footage and high resolution photographs of the underwater flora, fauna and habitats. 

The expedition focused on seamounts with peaks that are so deep they cannot be explored by divers. One particular seamount, Seco de los Olivos, is an area that Oceana has studied as part of the LIFE+ INDEMARES Project.

Underwater mountains attract numerous species and because of the range of heights and soil types, they host many different biological communities. Oceana studies these areas using transects (moving the ROV along a path), a method that is more complicated than simply dropping the ROV down and pulling it straight back up, but which provides a more comprehensive view of the area.

 

 

Diaries

October 13, 2012

The Van Veen dredge

By: Silvia García

October 12, 2012

Another day off

By: Silvia García

October 11, 2012

Unable to work

By: Silvia García

October 8, 2012

Back in Vilamoura

By: Ricardo Aguilar

October 7, 2012

In the kelp forest

By: Ricardo Aguilar

October 6, 2012

Deep Sea Sharks

By: Ricardo Aguilar

October 5, 2012

A show of coral

By: Ricardo Aguilar

September 28, 2012

On the way to Faro

By: Silvia García

September 26, 2012

Still in port

By: Silvia García

September 25, 2012

Rescuing a wounded gannet

By: Silvia García

September 22, 2012

Scorpion fish and corals

By: Silvia García

September 19, 2012

Fleeing the storm

By: Mario Conde

The Crew

PEDRO ALEXANDRINO SILVA FERREIRA

Algarve University (Portugal)

RUI PEDRO SILVA

Algarve University (Portugal)

PITU (JOSEP MARIA) ROVIROSA

Algarve University (Portugal)

PAULO JORGE MENANO

Algarve University (Portugal)

THIERRY LANNOY

Diving Team Coordinator (France)

EVA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ

Deckhand (Spain)

JOSÉ LUIS ESCUDERO

Deckhand (Spain)

FREDERICO MIGUEL CUNHA DE OLIVEIRA

Algarve University (Portugal)

MARIO CONDE

Deckhand (Spain)

JOSEP FLETA

ROV's Technician (Spain)

GORKA LECLERCQ

Underwater videographer (Spain)

INGRID F. LACOSTE

Cook (Argentina)

Silvia García

Senior Marine Scientist

Ricardo Aguilar

Senior Advisor & Expedition Leader

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