{"id":4285,"date":"2016-07-26T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2016-07-26T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T02:31:49","slug":"exploring-the-marianas-trench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/26\/exploring-the-marianas-trench\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Marianas Trench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em><strong>NOAA<\/strong><\/em> ship <em>Okeanos<\/em> recently completed an exploration of the deep Marianas Trench. Here&#8217;s a few of the things they found:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Acorn worms were just one of the many types of strange fauna observed at Twin Peaks. \"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/okeanos\/explorations\/ex1605\/dailyupdates\/media\/june30-700.jpg?resize=700%2C394\" alt=\"Acorn worms were just one of the many types of strange fauna observed at Twin Peaks. \" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Acorn worms were just one of the many types of strange fauna observed at Twin Peaks. <em>Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"One of the unusual benthic platyctenid ctenophores documented during Dive 5 at Ahyi Seamount.\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/okeanos\/explorations\/ex1605\/dailyupdates\/media\/june22-700.jpg?resize=700%2C394\" alt=\"One of the unusual benthic platyctenid ctenophores documented during Dive 5 at Ahyi Seamount.\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>One of the unusual benthic platyctenid ctenophores documented during Dive 5 at Ahyi Seamount. <em>Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"ROV Deep Discoverer discovers a B-29 Superfortress resting upsidedown on the seafloor. This is the first B-29 crash site found of over a dozen American B-29s lost in the area while flying missions during World War II. \"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/okeanos\/explorations\/ex1605\/dailyupdates\/media\/july9-700.jpg?resize=700%2C394\" alt=\"ROV Deep Discoverer discovers a B-29 Superfortress resting upsidedown on the seafloor. This is the first B-29 crash site found of over a dozen American B-29s lost in the area while flying missions during World War II. \" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>ROV <em>Deep Discoverer<\/em> discovers a B-29 Superfortress resting upsidedown on the seafloor. This is the first B-29 crash site found of over a dozen American B-29s lost in the area while flying missions during World War II. <em>Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/okeanos\/explorations\/ex1605\/logs\/photolog\/welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NOAA ship Okeanos recently completed an exploration of the deep Marianas Trench. Here&#8217;s a few of the things they found: Acorn worms were just one of the many types of strange fauna observed at Twin Peaks. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/26\/exploring-the-marianas-trench\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}