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The Joides Resolution may have sailed its last expedition

by cyberlimerence on 10/9/24, 7:58 AM with 3 comments

• by dang on 10/11/24, 6:18 PM

  Related: Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean's Deepest Secrets

  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-sci...

  https://archive.is/3UMcU

  (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360598, but no comments there)

• by r00fus on 10/11/24, 7:33 PM

  So this ship exists, but the funding for the expeditions have been cancelled from the NSF (US).

  The wrinkle at the end seems to posit the China challenge - and possibly that's for the best as the US seems to have given up on non-military seafaring ventures.

• by causal on 10/12/24, 12:57 AM

  Right in the middle of the decade of ocean science no less