A British ship valued at 260 million euros capable of challenging winter in Antarctica. This ship has been baptized as the SRI Sir David Attenboroughand although it may seem cold and dark, Its interior is full of life.
According to the French media Media 24some details of the sixth continent remain “a mystery.” The works are done mostly in summer, when daylight lasts 24 hours and ice is more docile. But winter, “hide another reality.”
A -30º C, the scientists and researchers of the British ship managed to observe the Antarctic Ocean as no one before. The team “Cartografó the seabed near some glaciers”, and began to understand “How ice nutrients feed marine life”. In this way, the study concluded that glacier is not only a victim of climate change, but could constitute “a winter supermarket for marine organisms.”
According to the disseminated information, in the ship’s laboratories “Salinity, temperature, chlorophyll levels, sediments and nutrients are measured.” “The ship is a true mobile scientific base, 129 meters long, with a break, a helicopter and an entire army of autonomous probes.”
The construction of the ship cost around 260 million eurosaccording to the data collected in the middle. Which offers “is necessary for the advancement of science”: “irreplaceable data to understand how the oceans, climate and life on earth interact during the middle of the year we never look at.”
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