Reblogged from Deepwater Canyons:

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Bringing the ROV back to the surface today was like coming back to the future… ten to twenty thousand years in the future, to a time where the ocean is now more than 60 meters deeper than it once was. Today’s dive mission was archaeological exploration at an interesting geological formation (noticed on the multibeam maps). Relatively quickly we noticed that the sediments had a larger particle size, and we also passed over a field of larger rocks.

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by Megan Chesser