Overview

• Live streams from ROV SuBastian aboard Falkor (too) have drawn over 1.6 million daily views and tens of thousands of concurrent viewers exploring depths to 4,500 m
• Researchers have documented more than 120 species, including cold-water corals, carnivorous sponges and abyssal crustaceans never before recorded in the Mar del Plata canyon
• CONICET has launched a 48-hour national strike after its budget fell 21 percent in real terms and salaries have dropped 35 percent under President Milei’s austerity measures
• The team will redeploy ROV SuBastian to the Uruguay SUB 200 campaign starting August 12 to survey deep-sea canyons off Uruguay through September 10
• All data and high-definition imagery will be published in open repositories to support proposals for Argentina’s first marine protected areas on the continental slope