Technology is great, says “OceanXplorers’” Aldo Kane, but “the human factor can make or break a mission.”
“It just takes a few nights of not sleeping well or rough seas and then you have a recipe for potential disaster,” he says.
Knowing how close experts dare get to a polar bear could mean the difference between getting valuable information or saving a life.
Front starboard side of the OceanXplorer.
“When you’re in that environment of cutting-edge science and exploration, there is no room for ego. There is no room for just looking out for yourself,” Kane says. “Every single person is there for a specific reason.”
Kane, an ex-Royal Marine special operations officer, helps determine where a state-of-the-art scientific research and exploration vessel can go in the world’s oceans. Chronicling the journey in “OceanXplorers,” a six-part series shows what he and others (among them researchers, biologists, and innovators) have been able to discover in these unseen worlds.
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