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Some to the VENTuRE team with the RV Celtic Explorer

New life forms filmed for upcoming National Geographic Channel series.

The Irish-led VENTuRE scientific expedition aboard the national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer has discovered a previously uncharted field of hydrothermal vents along the mid-Atlantic ridge – the first to be explored north of the Azores. The mission, led by Dr Andy…

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The VENTure Team in front of the ROV Holland 1 in Galway Docks (courtesy of Marine Institute)

Undiscovered ‘alien’ life forms that thrive without sunlight in temperatures approaching boiling point may soon come to light thanks to a ground-breaking marine research mission aboard the Irish research vessel RV Celtic Explorer.

In collaboration with scientists from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre, the researchers sailed from Galway…