Scientific expeditions exploring
deep-sea volcanic vents

Previous voyages

RRS James Cook Voyage 44, revealing the world's deepest known volcanic vents, 3.1 miles beneath the waves in the Cayman Trough (March-April 2010).

RRS James Cook Voyage 55, exploring deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems around Antarctica (January-February 2011).

RV Celtic Explorer Voyage CE11009, revealing the first deep-sea vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge north of the Azores (July-August 2011).

Unfortunately our usual live web outreach was not possible from the RV Celtic Explorer, but you can read about the expedition's discoveries here.

RRS James Cook Voyage 67, visiting the first deep-sea vents found on the Southwest Indian Ridge (November 2011).

Forthcoming voyages

RRS Discovery Voyage 374, recovering our deep-water instrument moorings and colonisation experiments from the Cayman Trough (late January 2011).

RRS James Cook Voyage tba, returning to the deep-sea vents that we found in the Cayman Trough for further investigations with the Isis ROV (dates in 2013 tbc).