Taking turns with his shipmates, Wiens swung bright -
yellow ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones off the fantail, and lowered them gently to the water's surface, as the ship laid out a matrix of instruments for a seismic survey on the trench.
Researchers at the University of Southampton have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal
ocean waters on earth — known as Antarctic
Bottom Water (AABW)-- during first voyage of the
yellow robotic submersible known as Boaty McBoatface, which arrived back in the UK last week.