Remote Yet Fragile Environment
Dr. Copley explained to the BBC, “On these dives, we watched the everyday lives of Antarctic deep-sea animals, helping us to understand them much better than studying specimens collected by nets or trawls from ships,” Dr. Copley continued, “And [it’s] helping us to investigate how our own lives are connected to this remote yet fragile environment.”
Still A Mystery
Even the areas of the oceans that are accessible to us remain a mystery, even though Dr. Copley hopes this exploration will change that somehow. “Sending people a kilometer deep into the ocean around Antarctica for the first time shows that there is no longer any part of our blue planet that is inaccessible to us, if we can find the will to go there,” he added.