Take a trip to the twilight zone. No, not a spooky place in another dimension, but an area 50 to 150m below the ocean surface in the Bahamas called the coral twilight zone. Scientists begin exploring it this week with the Natural History Museum’s ROV (remotely-operated vehicle), and will be sending back daily updates in blogs, videos and more.
Scientists from the Museum and the University of Southampton are researching this little-explored area of the ocean off a remote island in the Bahamas.
They are investigating what kind of creatures live there and observing them alive in their natural habitat – they’re almost certain to find sharks as the waters of the Bahamas have recently been declared a shark sanctuary!
They are also collecting the results of an experiment that they hope will have enticed strange bone-eating worms.
