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4,000 Batteries Under the Sea

June 17, 2009

Daniel Gomez-Ibañez is an engineer at WHOI who specializes in developing battery systems to power deep-submergence vehicles, including the new “hybrid” deep-sea explorer Nereus, which successfully dove to Challenger Deep — the deepest part of the ocean — on May 31, 2009. Learn more about Nereus and the team of engineers who developed the vehicle in a series of interviews featured in Oceanus Magazine.

(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)