A plume of bubbles (light green and yellow) is shown rising from the seafloor at Vailulu’u Seamount in a single ping of midwater multibeam sonar data, collected during the 2017 American Samoa expedition.

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Fact Sheet
Why Do We Explore the Deep Ocean?
Fact Sheet
Chemosynthesis
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Maritime Heritage/Maritime Archaeology
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Tools to Study Maritime Heritage
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The Ecology of Maritime Heritage/Maritime Archaeological Sites
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How We Explore Maritime Heritage Sites
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Life Cycle of a Deep-Sea Sample
Fact Sheet
Deep-Sea Sampling
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Environmental DNA (eDNA)
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Multibeam Sonar
Fact Sheet
Bathymetric Maps
Fact Sheet
Sonar: Seeing with Sound