Above & Below Booklet

Above & Below is a narrated visual booklet created to help show the importance of the unknown, how humans are exploring the depths of the Ocean, and what the deep sea can tell us about past organisms, geological features, and how land is formed above the surface.

The imagery in this narrative is inspired by the Lu’uaeaahikiikekualonokai expedition, which took place West Southwest of the Hawaiian Islands, near Chautauqua Seamount. The expedition targeted an unnamed seamount chain consisting of seven seamounts of varying sizes. The area was explored both visually with the use of ROVs Argus and Hercules, and bathymetrically, using single and multibeam data.