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Nature 437, 612-613 (29 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437612a; Published online 28 September 2005

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Marine technology: Back to the bottom

Robert Cooke1

  1. Robert Cooke is a freelance writer in Stow, Massachusetts.

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Marine scientists are getting ready for their newest tool, a versatile robot submersible that can travel into the oceans' deepest abyss. Robert Cooke visits the Massachusetts lab where the future of deep-sea exploration is taking shape.

With a typhoon bearing down, the operators of the ship Kairei made what seemed the sensible decision: they hauled in their lines and planned to leave the area. Only these were no ordinary fishing lines, but a kilometres-long stretch of cable leading to the world's deepest-diving submersible.

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