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Published online 14 October 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.990
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Ocean science goes deep
A global mission to wire up sea-floor observatories gets under way.
Fuelled by more than $100 million from the US economic stimulus package, an unprecedented network of underwater surveillance equipment is beginning to take shape in the world's oceans.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is the "single greatest step forward for ocean science in the United States for half a century", says Tim Cowles of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, a non-profit organization that manages and coordinates the OOI from its base in Washington DC.
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