Personal submersibles offer novel ecological research access to Antarctic waters: an example, with observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Daniel M. Moore, Anne Elina Flink, Eva Prendergast, Antony Gilbert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2023
• Subjects: submarine; polar; medusa; citizen science; jellyfish; tourism; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Medusa; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v42.8873; https://doaj.org/article/a892bce196dc40fd9b8aa0f58a8a4bba

Underwater biological surveys have been conducted around the Antarctic continent for several decades, and our knowledge of the species present in the shallow waters (<50 m) is reasonably comprehensive. However, the waters below 50 m remain underexplored on the account of difficulty of access, fin...