Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2018.
ROV Deep Discoverer explores the cultural heritage site during Dive 02 of the Gulf of Mexico 2018 expedition.
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are conducting an expedition to explore shipwrecks in the uncharted waters of the deepest parts of the Gulf of Mexico, and they're returning to the surface with some stunning footage.
As part of the mission, the researchers are using remote-operated submersibles to investigate a number of shipwrecks - some of them previously unidentified - that are resting thousands of feet underwater in the deepest, least-explored parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
From a tugboat that was the subject of a daring rescue mission during a tropical storm in the 1960s to German U-boats and pirate ships from the 19th century, the scientists and archaeologists are seeking to learn all they can about the histories of these ships, as the ocean slowly reclaims them.
Let's start the journey to the depths of the sea: