NEPTUNE Canada is building the world’s largest cabled seafloor observatory off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The network, which extends across the Juan de Fuca plate, will gather live data from a rich constellation of instruments deployed in a broad spectrum of undersea environments. Data will be transmitted via high-speed fibre optic communications from the seafloor to an innovative data archival system at the University of Victoria. This system will provide free Internet access to an immense wealth of data, both live and archived throughout the life of this planned 25-year project. Their system goes live on december 8, 2009! For more information visit their website : http://www.neptunecanada.ca Or you can visit their Youtube channel here : http://bit.ly/8DYl4
