Water: The Final Frontier

In an article on BBC Future, Adrienne Bernhard writes about, "an international team of experts from around the world, united under the non-profit General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (Gebco), launched the first effort to create a comprehensive map of the world’s oceans." She explains in the article that our oceans are highly unexplored and that these experts set out to chart this massive expanse that spreads across the planet more than land does. 

According to the article, "Only 15% of the Earth’s ocean is mapped. Zoom in on the middle of the Pacific in Google Earth, for example, and you’ll find a representation of the ocean floor based on satellite and gravity-derived bathymetry: low resolution, indirect, often inaccurate." The ocean is not something that we can just snap a few pictures of and get great detail from, it must be carefully explored. The members of Gebco are hoping that even people not involved in their mission will help as well. They hope that people like fishermen, cargo ships, or even pleasure ships will help by exploring new areas not yet sailed. In order to read the article in full, Click Here.

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