THE
NORTH-EAST PACIFIC TIME-SERIES UNDERSEA NETWORKED EXPERIMENTS
NEPTUNE will be the world’s largest
cable-linked seafloor observatory. It will expand the boundaries
of ocean
exploration and
give us a new way of studying
and understanding our planet. NEPTUNE brings power and the Internet to the ocean environment through novel technologies.
NEPTUNE Canada will lay an 800 km ring of powered fibre optic cable on the seabed over the northern part of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, a 200,000 sq km region in the northeast Pacific off the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. This tectonic plate is the smallest of the dozen major plates that make up the planet’s surface and offers a full range of Earth and ocean processes for us to observe. MORE »
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