OVER the next three years a team from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, will be using a to explore the , a rift in the bed of the Caribbean Sea that plunges to more than 5000 metres below the surface on a roughly east-west line between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
The trough contains the deepest seabed volcanoes in the world, and the expedition’s scientists expect among other things to learn much about the biology of those turbulent depths. It is an exciting prospect: the seabed is one of the two last…
