NOAA “Stepping Stones” expedition: why no update on Caryn Seamount?
It’s been over a month since NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer was scheduled to visit, photograph, collect samples from, and study what what billed as a kind of crown jewel of the “2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts” expedition: a previously unvisited, isolated undersea plateau called Caryn Seamount, rising 6,500 ft. from the seabed northwest of Bermuda and east of Virginia, hundreds of miles distant from the nearest topographical perturbation on the vast plane in the middle of which it is situated.
NOAA’s Twitter feed shows frequent updates from the expedition, and links to then-live cameras, photographs, and recorded videos of undersea topography looming out of the darkness and bizarre-looking wildlife. Many of the seamounts scheduled to be explored are named in these updates, and photographic or videographic or other data are presented in conjunction with the chronicled visits.
But there is a glaring omission: nowhere in NOAA’s Twitter updates is Caryn Seamount mentioned; and on the NOAA website, there is likewise no indication that the plateau was visited at all.
Given the hype preceding the expedition about humanity’s first visit to (and images from) a feature described by scientists as “anomalous”, it seems rather anomalous that no mention was made of—nor any data made available from—what was presumably the most scientifically interesting and historic part of the expedition.
Can someone explain this odd lacuna in the expedition’s itinerary in terms of mundane reasons?
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