“We know more about the surface of the moon than we do the deep sea,” says Cherisse Du Preez, head of DFO’s deep-sea ecology program. A local expedition hopes to change that.
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Around 75 per cent of Canada’s seamounts are contained within the expedition’s study sites, which extend around 200 kilometres west off the Northern tip of Haida Gwaii to the southern edge of Vancouver Island.