The Puerto Rico Trench - Exploring the deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean

© The film describes the collection of detailed soundings of the seafloor using multibeam sonar at sea, and presents virtual reality fly-bys through the spectacular underwater topography of the Puerto Rico Trench. The data collection in this expedition is part of a series of studies conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to help understand the reasons for the large vertical movements of the Earth in the region and to provide information for earthquake and tsunami hazard assessments in the northeast Caribbean.
For information about the science behind the film, visit www.usgs.gov/c... or contact Dr. Uri ten Brink, [e-mail]
Producer and director: Prof. Joram ten Brink, University of Westminster, U.K. This film is copyrighted by Joram ten Brink, 2004 ©