The ocean has absorbed our carbon, steadied our climate, and kept the planet habitable for decades. Most of us have no idea how close to its limits it’s running.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of instruments on the seafloor, on buoys, and in the water column — running continuously, in some of the harshest conditions on Earth — built to answer the questions we can’t afford to get wrong.
We meet the scientists and engineers behind it: the volcanologist monitoring eruptions from the deep sea floor, the team delivering ten terabytes of ocean data every month, free to anyone on the planet. This is the story of the infrastructure keeping watch on the system everything depends on.
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