WHOI Website Takes Viewers Deep into the Gulf Underwater
vehicles will be used by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and
other university scientists to learn if the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill affected animals in the Gulf of Mexico; the public is
invited to take a look via the Dive and Discover website. Using
the human-occupied submersible Alvin and the autonomous
underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, researchers are about to
investigate and view first-hand the possible effects of the 2010
Deepwater Horizon oil spill at the bottom of the Gulf. From Dec.
6-14, the mission will be relayed to the public as it happens on
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI) Dive and
Discover website. Scientists from numerous institutions — led by
Penn State University, Temple University, Haverford College, and
WHOI — will probe the depths of the Gulf to look for any impact
on the organisms that inhabit deep-ocean communities. To
accomplish this, they will employ two undersea vehicles of the
US’s National Deep Submergence