AP reports from Los Angeles that XPRIZE, the global leader in designing and operating world-changing incentive competitions, today announced the deep sea off Kalamata, Greece, has been chosen as the field testing location for finalist teams competing in the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, the company says via press release.
Deep sea, real-world testing is a key stage in the three-year global competition challenging teams to promote ocean technologies for rapid, unmanned and high-resolution ocean exploration and discovery. In this final field-testing round for the Grand Prize of the competition, which starts in November and runs through December, the teams have up to 24 hours to map at least 250 km 2 of the ocean seafloor – an area that is nearly three times the area of Paris – to depths down to 4,000 meters – a cold, dark and high-pressure environment that is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.
On the southern coast of Greece, each team will launch and recover their autonomous underwater technologies from XPRIZE’s Mission Control in Kalamata. The competition area is nearly 500 km 2 and includes a number of underwater features. Finalist teams have to launch from shore and their entries must travel to the competition location by water or air and, with restricted human intervention, map at least 50 percent of the area – 250 km 2 – at five meters resolution and at depths down to 4,000 meters, identifying and imaging at least ten archeological, biological or geological features at any depth, all within 24 hours.
For the latest information about the competition structure, important dates and the finalist teams please visit: https://oceandiscovery.xprize.org.
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