Hi Andrew - do you have any plans or ideas for how to get openCTD rated for deeper water? Would love to pair it with a camera system we are developing (for work down to ca. 1km)

Our next meeting is 15-16 July at Dove Marine Lab in Newcastle

For whatever else it may have been - it's been a really interesting case of a paper sparking interest in a new topic!

People love to prove other people wrong I guess

I'm a fisheries scientist and deep-sea ecologist, working at Cefas in the UK. Mostly I work for Governments of some of the UK overseas territories or within RFMO working groups

Amen.

I'm rarely less optimistic about the future of our species than when I'm sat in international fisheries meetings listening to the most pointless objections to anything that feels even slightly like progress.

Yup, the oldest I'm aware of (a kind of black coral) was dated at over 4000!