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August 28, 2007
Linking the Ocean to Internet
NEPTUNE, a joint U.S.-Canadian effort to create the world's first regional cabled ocean observatory, took its first step last week when the French ship Ile de Sein laid down submarine fiber-optic cables in the Pacific Ocean.
The cable will deliver power to the ocean instruments and transmit their data back to Vancouver Island's Port Alberni Shore Station, where the two ends of the cable will sit. In total, more than 200 scientific instruments, along with video cameras and a remotely operated vehicle will be connected to the network. The devices will stream data into the Web nonstop for the next 25 years. "This way anybody from Beijing to Calcutta to London can go on the Internet and look at the data," said Brian Bornhold, NEPTUNE Canada's project scientist. - National Geographic News
Cindy
Comments
No good can come of this. The giant squid overlords are not going to be pleased.
Brain matter deposited by: Al on August 28, 2007 9:22 AM
whoopie. I guess nobody told Leona Helmsley about the undersea creatures.
Brain matter deposited by: RONW on August 30, 2007 1:17 AM