sentences:  She was named after Captain James Cook, the British explorer, navigator and cartographer at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton by The Princess Royal.On her maiden scientific voyage, on 5 March 2007, "James Cook" was involved in the discovery of what is believed to be the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, while in the Caribbean.In September 2015, while on a cruise studying the seabed and marine life of the Whittard Canyon on the northern margin of the Bay of Biscay, oceanographers believe they pictured the first blue whale in English waters since the mammals were almost hunted to extinction in the north-east Atlantic.