Celebes Sea Expedition

I just uploaded a news entry on our official website regarding a joint venture of the Philippines and the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to explore the depths of the Celebes Sea “in search of the strange, and possibly unknown, fishes, jellyfish, squids and shrimp that live in the dark deep waters”.

I went to the website of US-NOAA to get more details of the exploration. They identified that the Celebes Sea is not yet well explored, that there “may well be species that have evolved in isolation from other surrounding waters, waiting to be discovered with modern exploration tools”.

The expedition gives me the idea of what I see in the National Geographic channel where high technology meets the challenge of bringing new information on the less explored life on the planet that is the sea. This is a very overwhelming experience if given a chance of joining the team. However, that would only be in dreams. Not only that I am not qualified, I always have sea sickness.

Maybe the only thing that I could do to support this grand effort is to post this entry to let everyone know that such an activity is undergoing. The exploration would start September 27 and ends on October 16, 2007.