Oceanwide Expeditions announced the successful completion of its “Remote Weddell Sea Explorer” voyage onboard the Ortelius.
Scientists explored the seafloor after an iceberg broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. They were shocked by what they found.
It calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and then rested on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for more than ... produces will pose a hazard to fishing and shipping operations ...
The "mega-berg," as some call it, is a sprawling ice sheet that once covered around ... Antarctica in 1986 and got stuck in the Weddell Sea, where it remained grounded for about three decades ...
The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice was calved from Antarctica’s Filchner ice shelf in 1986, and then remained grounded on the floor of the Weddell Sea for more than 30 years, the British ...
including new fish, crustaceans, sea snails and worms. Researchers first flagged that there were signs of sea life beneath the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in the Southern Weddell Sea in 2021 ...