GoKawiilFrance's Ifremer completes deep-sea Argo dives, plans 30 more floats by 2028
Ifremer, France's state ocean agency, confirmed its two Deep-6000 prototype floats completed five dives reaching 6,000 meters between January and February this year, collecting rare data from the ocean's abyssal zone. This makes France the third nation, after China and the US, to build Argo floats able to reach such depths, and Ifremer plans to add 30 more deep-diving units to the global Argo fleet of 4,000 floats by 2028.
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Most existing ocean-monitoring floats stop between 2,000 and 4,000 meters, missing roughly a tenth of ocean warming that happens deeper down. Expanding deep-sea coverage to over 98 percent of the ocean would give climate scientists a far more complete picture of heat absorption and circulation patterns that influence global climate models.
- France joins the US and China as the only countries with 6,000-meter Argo floats.
- Ifremer plans to add 30 deep-sea floats to the global fleet by 2028.
- Deep ocean data could close a major gap, since 10% of ocean warming occurs below current float depths.
Source: engadget.com — Kari Paul, 2026-09-21
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