Boaty McBoatface has returned from its first journey and of course it was a success
Good old Boaty.
Everyone’s favourite yellow submarine Boaty McBoatface has returned from its first voyage brimming with important data.
The polar research ship dived up to 4,000 metres to obtain information about temperature, water flow speed and turbulence from Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean some 500 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula.
The data collected will help scientists to understand the complex way mixing ocean waters affect climate change.
But a heated Twitter protest led to a compromise that allowed the Boaty McBoatface name to live on.
He said: “We have been able to collect massive amounts of data that we have never been able to capture before due to the way Boaty is able to move underwater.
The submersible was launched as part of the seven week DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow) expedition.
