Bloomberg & OceanX Digital Collaboration: "Our Underwater States"
Executive Producer
Some of our greatest treasures lie just off our shore, like the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, nicknamed the “Serengeti of the Atlantic.” Bloomberg Philanthropies and OceanX Media collaborated with Woods Hole Oceanographic scientists to send submarines into these massive underwater canyons, many of which dwarf the Grand Canyon in size, to explore underwater landscapes no humans had previously visited.
Named for the Ancient Greek god of the Underworld, the Hadal Zone is the pitch-black part of our oceans below 6,000 meters. As part of the exploration of these oceanic canyons, a scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory joined to test for the first time a prototype drone designed to explore the deep oceans of our planet - and eventually, oceans on other planets, like the oceans of Europa, a moon of Jupiter.