Going Dark: Why Dismantling America’s Ocean Sensors Is a Security Risk

The United States is about to lose its clearest view of a fast-changing ocean. Starting this month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began pulling more than 900 deep-sea instruments out of the water, dismantling four of the five major arrays of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a network of moorings and seafloor sensors that streams continuous, real-time data on the physical, chemical, and biological state of the Atlantic and Pacific.

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