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 - an area roughly four and a half times the size of Vancouver Island.
A new study is questioning whether current scientific models are underestimating the potential size of tsunamis off British Columbia s coast in the event of a large-scale earthquake.
Ocean Networks has been selected by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH)to conduct research on fibre optic cable routing and site locations for new cable landing stations.