NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration & Research (OER)

For the past 200 years, NOAA and its predecessor programs have engaged in exploring the world's oceans, creating a rich and varied history. This website reflects the merger of two NOAA programs, NOAA's Undersea Research Program and the Office of Ocean Exploration, to focus the nation's efforts on exploring the still largely unknown global ocean with the most advanced undersea technologies. The mission of OE is to support NOAA and National objectives by exploring the Earth's largely unknown oceans in all their dimensions for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge, using state-of-the-art technologies in evolutionary and revolutionary ways.

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