Overview

• Streaming restarted Saturday morning with the first Uruguay dive, identified as SuBastian immersion 827 near Punta del Este and southeast of Montevideo at 143 meters depth.
• The month-long Uruguay Sub200 campaign began after the vessel’s departure from Montevideo on August 22 and is scheduled to continue into mid-to-late September.
• Researchers plan surveys along the Uruguayan margin from roughly 200 to 3,600 meters, targeting six submarine canyons and fluid-escape sites linked to chemosynthetic communities.
• The expedition involves 37 scientists spanning marine ecology, deep-water mapping, geophysics, and underwater archaeology, with participants from Uruguay and several countries in the region and Europe.
• Operations use the ROV SuBastian from the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (Too), with live high-definition video available on the institute’s YouTube channel.