Seychelles Ocean Mission

Seychelles president’s underwater speech: Protect our oceans

By DAVID KEYTONApril 14, 2019 GMT

DESROCHES ISLAND, Seychelles (AP) — In a striking speech delivered from deep below the ocean's surface, the Seychelles president on Sunday made a global plea for stronger protection of the "beating blue heart of our planet...

Off the Seychelles, a dive into a never-seen landscape

By DAVID KEYTONApril 12, 2019 GMT

ST. JOSEPH ISLAND, Seychelles (AP) — The submersible dropped from the ocean's surface faster than I had expected...

AP reporter, David Keyton, looks out of a submersible at around 400 feet below the surface off the coast of the island of St. Joseph in the Seychelles, April 8, 2019. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

AP joins deep dive into Indian Ocean

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Indian Ocean exploration makes historic undersea broadcast

By DAVID KEYTON and JERRY HARMERMarch 12, 2019 GMT

ALPHONSE ISLAND, Seychelles (AP) — A British-led scientific mission to document changes taking place beneath the Indian Ocean has broadcast its first live, television-quality video transmission from a two-person submersible...

Explaining the Nekton Indian Ocean Mission

March 11, 2019 GMT

Exploring the Deep Ocean

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A submersible after British scientist and her American pilot had to make an emergency ascent from 250 meters beneath the surface of the Indian ocean off the Seychelles after smoke filled their two-person submersible, Tuesday March 19, 2019. The pair, from the UK-led Nekton Mission investigating climate change in the region, are both safe onboard the mother ship where an electrical fire aboard the sub is being investigated as the possible cause. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Emergency ascent in Indian Ocean as sub fills with smoke

On a pioneering mission to share ocean secrets

March 11, 2019 GMT

Explorers to send 1st live video broadcast from ocean depths

By JERRY HARMER and DAVID KEYTONMarch 9, 2019 GMT

ALPHONSE ATOLL, Seychelles (AP) — Explorers are set to deliver the first live video broadcast from deep below an ocean's surface...

Young Seychelles researcher offered surprise, historic dive

By DAVID KEYTON and JERRY HARMERMarch 8, 2019 GMT

ALPHONSE ATOLL, Seychelles (AP) — A young scientist from the Seychelles on Friday became the first known Seychellois to explore deep below scuba depth in the largely uncharted waters of her island nation...

Scientists begin exploring Indian Ocean depths in Seychelles

By JERRY HARMER and DAVID KEYTONMarch 7, 2019 GMT

ALPHONSE ATOLL, Seychelles (AP) — An unprecedented mission to explore the Indian Ocean and document changes taking place beneath the waves began its research on Thursday, in Seychelles waters...

Bad weather changes course of Indian Ocean exploration trip

By DAVID KEYTONMarch 6, 2019 GMT

Associated Press joins unique undersea science mission

March 6, 2019 GMT

Science vessel for ocean mission arrives in Seychelles

March 1, 2019 GMT

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — The science vessel of British-based Nekton Mission arrived in the Seychelles on Friday to begin the first stage of a multi-year mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean and document the effects of global warming on one of the planet's last major unexplored frontiers...

Uncharted waters: Scientists to explore Indian Ocean depths

January 24, 2019 GMT

BREMEVERHAVEN, Germany (AP) — Scientists prepared Thursday to embark on an unprecedented, years-long mission to explore the Indian Ocean and document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades...