June 3, 2021: Divers
Image courtesy of Jill Heinerth, Bermuda Deep Water Caves 2011 Exploration, NOAA Ocean Exploration. Download larger version (jpg, 2.3 MB).
Silhouettes of the team at the deco bar and at the surface waiting for divers to return from the last dive of the Bermuda Deep Water Caves 2011: Dives of Discovery expedition. During the expedition, divers used mixed gas, closed circuit rebreather dives to investigate prominent points of interest or potential cave locations found by examining multibeam profiles of the seafloor. The overall goal of the expedition was to explore and characterize the upper edge of the Bermuda Platform and an adjacent mid-ocean seamount to confirm the existence of deepwater (60-200 meter/197-656 foot depth) caves in the region.
From: One Last Dive.