In May of 2019, a team of GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Fellows won the international competition Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE for deep-sea exploration technology. The team members lived in different countries and could not work together in one location, which was a challenge in practical terms. Even so, their “diversity” proved to be a factor in winning the competition. In entering the competition, the team also had a goal beyond just winning the event. All of the prize money is expected to be used to achieve the goals set in the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project to completely map the world’s entire sea floor topography by 2030.
Selected Papers No.25