Journey to the twilight zone: Hear from a scientist who descended to 1,000 m
Hindustan Times“There were corals stretched out like the Great Wall,” says Sendhil Kumar, one of three Indian scientists to descend to a depth of 1,000 metres, as part of the Nekton Maldives Mission conducted in September. Kumar in the submersible; his voyage was part of the Nekton Maldives Mission, led by the Maldives government and the UK-based research foundation Nekton. Scientists from India, Sri Lanka, UK, and the Maldives surveyed a chain of 26 coral atolls in an operation led by the Maldives government and the UK-based ocean-research foundation Nekton. Kumar, of Kochi’s Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, spent 10 days aboard the research vessel Odyssey, and dove in a glass-bubble submersible to spend a few hours at 1,000 metres, in the twilight zone.
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