Seychelles Ocean Mission

An image taken from video issued by Nekton shows Seychelles President Danny Faure, left, smiling after speaking from inside a submersible from the vessel Ocean Zephyr, under the water off the coast of Desroches, in the outer islands of Seychelles Sunday April 14, 2019. Faure toured the vessel and was presented with some of the findings and observations made by a British-led science expedition documenting changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades (Nekton via AP)

Seychelles president’s underwater speech: Protect our oceans

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.”

The last rays of sunlight cross the sky after sunset while at sea in the waters off the Seychelles, Monday April 1, 2019. For more than a month researchers from Nekton, a British-led scientific research charity, have been using submersibles to dive deep below the waves to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

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

The research vessel Ocean Zephyr lays off Victoria, the Seychelles, on Friday March 1, 2019, where it will spend several days loading and testing equipment ahead of a weeks-long expedition to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Steve Barker)

Exploring the Deep Ocean

An image taken from video issued by Nekton shows a submersible from the vessel the Ocean Zephyr during a descent into the Indian Ocean off Alphonse Atoll near the Seychelles, Tuesday March 12, 2019. Members of the British-led Nekton research team boarded two submersible vessels and descended into the waters off the Seychelles on Tuesday, marking a defining moment in their mission to document changes to the Indian Ocean. The submersibles will be battling strong undersea currents and potentially challenging weather conditions as they survey the side of an undersea mountain off Alphonse Atoll. (Nekton via AP)

Indian Ocean exploration makes historic undersea broadcast

Researchers conducted the first sea tests of a submersible crucial to the British-based Nekton Mission which will explore the Indian Ocean during a seven-week long science expedition. The submarine was launched from the Ocean Zephyr off the coast of Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The mission will explore the Indian Ocean, during which scientists hope to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Explorers to send 1st live video broadcast from ocean depths

Stephanie Marie, a young scientist from the Seychelles, takes a small boat to reach a submersible for a technical test dive near the tiny Alphonse atoll, on Friday 8 March, 2019. A young scientist from the Seychelles has become the first known Seychellois to explore deep below scuba depth in the largely uncharted waters of her island nation. 23-year-old Stephanie Marie was offered a seat in a submersible for a technical test dive near the tiny Alphonse atoll on International Women’s Day. The marine researcher is taking part in the Nekton Mission to explore the Indian Ocean, one of the last major unexplored frontiers. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Young Seychelles researcher offered surprise, historic dive

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

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.

A technician conducts maintenance on a submersible as the Ocean Zephyr, the mother-ship of the British-based Nekton mission, sails towards a research dive site in the Seychelles, Wednesday March 6, 2019. The Nekton mission will explore the Indian Ocean, during which researchers hope to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Bad weather changes course of Indian Ocean exploration trip

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — Bad weather and high seas brought scientists on Wednesday to change the first stop of a unique mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean, one of the planet’s last great unexplored frontiers.

The research vessel Ocean Zephyr docked in Victoria, the Seychelles, on Friday March 1, 2019, where it will load and test equipment ahead of a weeks-long expedition to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean. The Ocean Zephyr is the mothership of the British-based Nekton Mission for scientists to document the impact of global warming in the unexplored frontier of the Indian Ocean, that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades.(AP Photo/Steve Barker)

Science vessel for ocean mission arrives in Seychelles

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 fronti

In this image taken from drone video, the Ocean Zephyr is docked in Bremerhaven, Germany, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019. Final preparations were being made Thursday for the start of an unprecedented, years-long mission to explore the Indian Ocean, during which scientists hope to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. The Britain-based Nekton Mission will use submarines to go 300 meters below the surface and sonar equipment to survey depths of up to 2,000 meters once the Ocean Zephyr reaches the Seychelles. (AP Photo/Stephen Barker)

Uncharted waters: Scientists to explore Indian Ocean depths

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.