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When completed, Discoverer will shed new light on unexplored areas of the ocean.
A close-up view of the bow of a shipwreck discovered by NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico on May 16, 2019. Marine life is prevalent on the wreck, except on the copper sheathing which still retains its antifouling ability to keep the hull free of marine organism like Teredo navalis (shipworm) that would otherwise burrow into the wood and consume the hull or barnacles that would reduce the vessel’s speed.
The unexpected and exciting find was made during the ship's shakedown expedition.
Ensign Brian Caldwell provides a pre-dive brief to Ensign Anna Hallingstad, Lt. Rosemary Abbitt and James Scott while Ensign Brianna Pacheco rests after her last dive.
Cmdr. Eric Johnson, Capt. Todd Bridgeman and Capt. Robert Kamphaus in front of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer at the University of Hawaii Pier in Honolulu, Hawaii.
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer docked at the NOAA Inouye Regional Center.
As September came to a close, so did NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer's final expedition as part of NOAA's Campaign to Address Pacific monument Science, Technology, and Ocean NEeds (CAPSTONE).
Learn more about NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, America’s ship for ocean exploration.
NOAA remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer, deployed from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, surveys the wreck of a B-29 Superfortress resting upsidedown on the seafloor near Tinian Island during a 2016 expedition. This is the first B-29 crash site found of over a dozen American B-29s lost in the vicinity of Tinian and Saipan while flying missions during World War II.
Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer being brought aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during a 2016 mission in the Pacific Ocean.
