Overview

• During its three-week run from July 23 to August 11, the expedition livestreamed every SuBastian dive on YouTube and Twitch, drawing roughly 17.5 million total views and engaging families, classrooms and online communities.
• The team has delivered high-definition footage and physical samples to the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales for months of sediment analysis, microplastic studies and taxonomic work on over 40 candidate new species.
• The campaign marked the first Schmidt Ocean Institute mission led by an Argentine team and the first to broadcast every deep immersion in the Southwest Atlantic, setting a new standard for participatory ocean science.
• Scientists plan to release 3D models of newly recorded organisms and share open datasets through repositories such as CONICET Digital and GenBank to extend the expedition’s educational impact.
• Researchers cautioned that mounting funding gaps and stalled career pathways within Argentina’s research system could jeopardize the continuity of similar national-led deep-sea campaigns.