article_snippet.sent: It was due to be a routine mission to examine the depths of the Gulf of MexicoMexico.
article_snippet.sent: the vehicle is the workhorse of the Nautilus Exploration Program, and the vehicle always used in tandem with Argus, Argus's mothership.
article_snippet.sent: This neutrally buoyant yellow remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is the workhorse of the Nautilus Exploration Program, and This neutrally buoyant yellow remotely operated vehicle (ROV) always used in tandem with Argus, Argus's mothership.
article_snippet.sent: Dr. Robert Ballard’s Exploration Vessel E/V are on Dr. Robert Ballard’s Exploration Vessel E/V most ambitious expedition season yet, exploring sites ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to British Columbia through late September.
article_snippet.sent: Over six weeks of the six-month expedition will be dedicated to exploration and mapping of the Galapagos Rift and the site of the first hydrothermal vent discovery in 1977.
article_snippet.sent: The six-month-long 2015 season marks the transition of the vessel and operations of the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) to the west coast of the United States and the Pacific Ocean, concluding over two years of research in the Gulf and Caribbean regions.
article_snippet.sent: Nautilus is owned and operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET), a nonprofit founded in 2008 by Dr. Robert Ballard.
highlights_snippet.sent: Robosub was exploring the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana .
  