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Minerals Report - International Seabed Authority

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Figure 10: The Southampton Oceanography Centre’s deep-tow sidescan sonar instrument<br />

TOBI being prepared for launch from the RRS Charles Darwin at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge<br />

Figure 11: The Southampton Oceanography Centre’s deep-tow hydrothermal plume<br />

instrument BRIDGET being prepared for launch from the RRS Charles Darwin at the Mid-<br />

Atlantic Ridge<br />

The latter achievement was particularly important because it meant<br />

that the first active investigation of chimneys at the vent-site could commence<br />

on the very first research dive with a manned submersible to that site, later in<br />

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