Overview

• The live stream by CONICET and Schmidt Ocean Institute via ROV SuBastian continues until August 10, showing HD footage from depths of up to 3,900 meters.
• Viewer engagement topped 80,000 simultaneous and more than one million total views, underlining unprecedented public interest in ocean science.
• Scientists have confirmed over 120 invertebrate species, including potentially unrecorded regional fauna, in preliminary real-time analyses.
• The team documented plastic debris and trawl fishing net marks beyond 2,500 meters, highlighting the severity of human impact on deep-sea ecosystems.
• Collected data will underpin proposals for Argentina’s first marine protected area in the Mar del Plata submarine canyon.