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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Camera detects fluorescent sea life














After fleeing in the face of Hurricane Katrina, ocean researchers have returned to the Gulf Mexico where they are getting a revealing new look at the deep sea.

"We are exploring the deep sea with new eyes," oceanographer Tamara Frank of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution said Friday. Frank and others aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research Vessel Seward Johnson are using a camera that operates with dim red light to study life on the sea floor.

Read the full story at CNN News
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/09/05/eye.in.the.sea.ap/index.html

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