The British Natural Environment Research Council christened a research vessel the RRS
Sir David Attenborough last year, even though
a internet poll to name the ship indicated that Boaty McBoatface was the runaway favorite. The Science Ministry instead gave that name to
the ship's unmanned research submarine. A year later, that little yellow submarine is ready for its first mission.
The
high-tech remote-operated yellow submarine, bearing a name that began
as a joke, will begin its first mission this week through a deep current
that starts in Antarctica and goes through the Southern Ocean.
Boaty
will navigate through underwater waterfalls and rapids on a two-month
mission, collecting data to help scientists understand how global
warming affects oceans. It will depart on Friday aboard the James Clark
Ross, a British polar research ship, from Punta Arenas, Chile, and will
head to the Southern Ocean.
Read more about
the internet's favorite submarine at the New York Times.
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