VIKING’S expedition team has published its first scientific paper, from its inaugural Antarctic season last year. The essay follows Viking Octantis’ submarine encounters with the rare giant phantom jelly, which has been sighted just 126 times in a century. Viking has become the first cruise line to publish a scientific...
VIKING’S expedition team has published its first scientific paper, from its inaugural Antarctic season last year.
The essay follows Viking Octantis’ submarine encounters with the rare giant phantom jelly, which has been sighted just 126 times in a century.
Viking has become the first cruise line to publish a scientific paper, which details the submarine’s direct observations of the phantom jellyfish, of which three total sightings were made off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula early last year.
Including stills and video photography, the paper has been published HERE in Polar Research, the scientific journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute.
“In creating ‘the thinking person’s expedition’, it was our intention that every voyage should provide opportunities for scientific discovery,” Chair Torstein Hagen said.
