Ian Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, listens to Chris Barnes, project director of NEPTUNE Canada, discuss the final phase of building the world’s first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet. Barnes and Black both spoke at a celebration of the project’s progress at the Esquimalt Graving Dock, where undersea instruments are being loaded onto ships to be installed offshore up to two kilometres deep.

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