Seabed 2030 Project
DISCOVERY Vessel Swift
Quebec, Canada
April 2022
The International SeaKeepers Society is partnered with Seabed 2030 to crowdsource data collection using data loggers attached to privately owned vessels that can traverse areas of the ocean that have not been mapped in this way. These simple data recording devices connect directly to a vessel's navigational instruments to record route and depth on any given voyage. DISCOVERY Vessel (D/V) Swift is a 44’ sailing vessel owned and operated by Melanie and Morgan Finley, along with their two young daughters. The finleys hale from Canada but have been sailing from Panama, throughout the Pacific, and will make their way back up to the Pacific Northwest. They were the first SeaKeepers vessel to take on a Seabed 2030 logger and we look forward to seeing what bathymetric data they can add to the General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean.
Purpose of Research
The Nippon Foundation and GEBCO founded Seabed 2030 in 2017 to coordinate and oversee the sourcing and compilation of bathymetric data through its five data centres into the freely-available GEBCO Grid to produce a definitive map of the world ocean floor.
Application
Only 20% of the ocean floor has been mapped to date. Mapping the seafloor can help us learn what resources are available on our planet and identify changes in currents that can indicate climate change. By understanding the shape of our ocean floor, we gain knoweldge into geophysical drivers of ocean behavior.
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