Benefits, Efforts and Organizations

The people at NODOR (the National Organization for Deep Ocean Research) said it best. "We know more about the surface of the moon than about the organisms that inhabit the deep." - [Original Text Here]. The depths of the world's oceans are so mysterious to us, their secrets so elusive, that we have discovered more about our own solar system (an area spanning approximately 100,000 light years in diameter) than we have about this section of our own planet.

The benefits of deep ocean research are more significant than most would believe. Beyond mere curiosity, there are highly productive and legitimate reasons for more extensive research into the secrets of The Deep and it's inhabitants. There is, for example, research being conducted in the field of cancer treatment, which involves using the bioluminescence produced by deep sea organisms in mice to track cancer cells, and thereby pinpoint the origin of such cells.




Efforts to conduct deep sea research are being made presently by some organizations, such as NODOR, and can advance us to a point in our understanding - however, we will never truly grasp the true magnitude of what lies beneath us until more efforts are led to conduct research in The Deep.