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Scientists to explore Arctic Ocean beneath polar ice cap source: Financial Times | Jun 23, 04 | submitted by Ryan

Alaska - Marine scientists are to undertake the first systematic exploration of the Arctic Ocean beneath the polar ice cap. They will be looking for new forms of life in what the project organisers call "the planet's oldest seawater - a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice".

The exploration, which will cost more than $10m (?8.3m, ?5.5m), will bring in scientists from the US, Canada, Russia and several European countries, who will use submersibles, ice-breakers, sonar detection and traditional techniques to record biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean.

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