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A four-month expedition to explore the oceans surrounding Africa set sail this week.
Researchers will study deep-sea ecosystems in areas such as the Madagascar Ridge in the southwest Indian Ocean and Agulhas Plateau, about 300 miles south of South Africa.
The mission also plans to generate new datasets on biodiversity patterns, bacterioplankton, and aerosols.
The trip — a collaboration between the nonprofit groups OceanX and OceanQuest — launched from Comoros and will take in several stops across the continent, including the port city of Mindelo on the Cape Verde archipelago and Walvis Bay in Namibia.
