he team will use the deep-submergence vehicle, Nereus, to collect both biological and sediment samples. Nereus will stream imagery from its video camera to the ship via a fiber-optic filament about the width of human hair. This state of the art vehicle, developed by a team of engineers at WHOI, dove to the deepest part of the ocean—Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench—on its first mission in May 2009. (Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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he team will use the deep-submergence vehicle, Nereus, to collect both biological and sediment samples. Nereus will stream imagery from its video camera to the ship via a fiber-optic filament about the width of human hair. This state of the art vehicle, developed by a team of engineers at WHOI, dove to the deepest part of the ocean—Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench—on its first mission in May 2009. (Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)