• Source: OceanX

OceanX is an ocean exploration initiative founded by Mark Dalio and Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, an initiative by Dalio Philanthropies. OceanX utilises science, technology and media to explore and engage in public awareness activities and promotion efforts for the oceans and marine conservation efforts. The initiative also aids and facilitates ocean research for scientists, science institutions, media companies and philanthropy partners.




Vessels


OceanX's first vessel was the MV Alucia, a 56-meter research and exploration vessel bought by Dalio in 2011. The ship was outfitted with two deep-sea submersibles, a helipad, science labs and media facilities.
In 2021, the Alucia was sold, to be replaced by the 87-metre OceanXplorer, a former oil exploration ship named Volstad Surveyor. It carries 4 submersibles and hosts a dive center, a media center and 4 laboratories.




OceanX Media


OceanX Media (formerly Alucia Productions) is the media production arm of OceanX. OceanX Media worked with the BBC Earth on the nature documentary series Blue Planet II, taking BBC Studios on nine missions that contributed to four episodes of the series, including Episode 2, The Deep, in which OceanX and BBC conducted the first-ever deep-sea submersible dives to the Antarctic seafloor. The episode was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program. A video from the dive won the Webby Award in Social: Education and Discovery in 2019. The video was directed by OceanX Media Creative Director Mark Dalio.
Alongside BBC Earth, OceanX Media co-produced Oceans: Our Blue Planet, the Giant Screen companion film to Blue Planet II. The film is sponsored by Microsoft.
OceanX Media content has also been featured in media outlets including Mashable, Business Insider, Scientific American, Earther, and Discovery Channel Canada.




Accomplishments


OceanX missions and missions aboard the MV Alucia have been responsible for:

Capturing the first-ever footage of a giant squid (Architeuthis).
Exploring the Great Barrier Reef with Sir David Attenborough for the Emmy Award-winning series Great Barrier Reef (2015).
Exploring the ocean’s blue holes for the Emmy Award-winning National Geographic channel series Years of Living Dangerously (2014-2016).
Discovery of the 2009 wreckage of Air France Flight 447.
Discovery of the Baltic Sea anomaly in the Gulf of Bothnia (June 2011).
Discovery of the Galápagos (jaguar) catshark (Bythaelurus giddingsi).
Discovery of over 180 newly-described species of bioluminescent fishes.
The first-ever open-water test of Orpheus, a deep-sea drone prototype developed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to explore the deepwater hadal zone and, eventually, the suspected subsurface oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa.




Partners


In addition to its internal science and media operations, OceanX partners with several media, science and philanthropy organizations to facilitate and support their ocean research. Partners include the American Museum of Natural History, BBC Studios, filmmaker James Cameron, photographer Paul Nicklen, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, explorer Sylvia Earle, and scientists Edith Widder and Samantha Joye.
OceanX co-created the #OurBluePlanet digital initiative with BBC Earth with the goal of getting 1 billion people talking about the oceans.
In 2018, OceanX partnered with Bloomberg Philanthropies to commit $185 million over four years to ocean exploration and protection efforts.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• OceanX
• Baltic Sea anomaly
• MV Alucia
• Triton Submarines
• Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis
• Ray Dalio
• Giant squid
• Bluntnose sixgill shark
• BBC Studios Natural History Unit
• Samantha Joye