The Joides Resolution may have sailed its last expedition

[cyberlimerence]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/a-huge-loss-is-it-the-end-for-the-ship-that-helped-us-understand-life-on-earth

[dang]

Related: Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean's Deepest Secrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-sci...

https://archive.is/3UMcU

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360598, but no comments there)

[r00fus]

So this ship exists, but the funding for the expeditions have been cancelled from the NSF (US).

The wrinkle at the end seems to posit the China challenge - and possibly that's for the best as the US seems to have given up on non-military seafaring ventures.

[causal]

Right in the middle of the decade of ocean science no less