Around 95% of our oceans remain unexplored! In fact, we know less about our deep seas than we do about space!
Scientists are slowly trying to solve the ocean’s many mysteries by studying specimens and fossils on the ocean floor. With the invention of new microscopes, like the Benthic Underwater Microscope (BUM) developed at the University of California, San Diego, may finally have the chance to find out what’s lurking beneath the waves.
This camera can withstand the crushing pressure and combat the darkness of the deep ocean to take microscopic images, videos, and time-lapse shots of organisms in their natural habitat, without removing or harming them.
Want to know what these scopes are seeing?
Check out the gallery here.
We’ve got the perfect scopes for land-dwellers too. While you may not need an instrument as niche as the BMU, you might need a darkfield microscope that can image marine organisms without sinking your departmental budget.
The RZDT Brightfield Darkfield CMO Stereo Microscope is the most competitively-priced darkfield microscope today. It’s the most affordable way to study marine organisms with a high degree of accuracy.