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How Subsea Robots Will Explore Earth’s Final Frontier

UNDER THE SEA

‘Our goal is to have a complete map of the world’s oceans by 2030.’

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In 2012, acclaimed oceanographer Paul Snelgrove told a TEDTalk audience that the next frontier wasn’t in our skies, but rather underwater.

“We know more about the surface of the Moon and about Mars than we do about the deep sea floor despite the fact that we have yet to extract a...

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