Current expedition

Deep-Sea Habitats of the Cook Islands

October 1 – 21, 2025

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Current Status
Sonar Mapping
Update
After a fruitful and exciting ~30 hours on the seafloor, we have wrapped up Dive L1007 with ROV Little Hercules. Be sure to check out our spooky faceless cusk eel highlight that was captured during this dive by scrolling to the bottom of the page, and stay tuned for our next exploration of the seafloor! 
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Ship Location
Waters of the Cook Islands
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Current Watch

Video Engineer

Atalanta Pilot

Hercules Pilot

Hercules Pilot

Navigator

Communications

Watch Leader

Scientist

Data Logger