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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

A new set of gliders [treehugger.com] is being developed by a group of 19 European research organizations that will be able to go deeper than any other underwater robots have gone before, to 5,000 meters below the surface. The gliders will be chock full of onboard sensors that will take continuous samples of the water there, gathering data about the ecosystems down there as well as monitoring the water for pollution.

From the scientist's perspective more, better data is always a good thing. But scientists who need to compete for funding rarely keep that data to themselves and trumpet it in the public arena. The chance these undersea gliders could produce endless "The Oceans Are Dying!" memes is non-zero.

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