EXPEDITIONS 2007 and Future Expeditions: Discovering History and Preserving the Delicate Arctic Ecology Our 2007 - 2008 Expedition Goals Include: 1. Locate for the lost ships from the 1845 Franklin expedition. 2. Document changes in the Arctic due to global warming and pollution. 3. Support the goals of "The International Polar Year" for better monitoring the unprecedented Arctic melt-down by climate researchers, conservationists, marine biologists and official weather agencies. 4. Film & document arctic wildlife & the Inuit culture. Produce media to educate children about arctic lifestyles & ecological conservation. Our Bio-Diesel and hydrogen fuel cell powered ship will be the first of its kind to explore the Arctic. Click the link above for ship specifications. On this trip Deep Ocean Research LTD. will also be charting safe shipping lanes for future commercial vessels - reducing the distance they travel, thus reducing the amount of fuel burned in the voyages. This will help reduce additional global warming and minimize the amount of fossil fuels used as arctic travel increases. We Support Arctic Research & Education: 1. More Accurate & Comprehensive Arctic Weather Analysis. 2. Assistance to Northern Inuits and Threatened Isolated Tribes. 3. Speeding up Ice-Core Sampling While the Ice Still Exists! 4. Helping Conservation Groups Save the Polar Bears. 5. More Comprehensive Arctic-Marine Ecosystem Census and 6. Ecosystem Monitoring & DNA Preservation (of very-soon-to-be-extinct species in Immediately threatened ecosystems) 7. Documenting and Preserving Arctic Archaeological Discoveries, including hundreds, possibly thousands of new sites uncovered and left disintegrating by the retreating ice.

PERFECT TIMING - The Arctic is Changing FAST

SOCIETY OF MARINE EXPLORERS PRESERVE ECOLOGY - DISCOVER HISTORY