Seamount Scanner

Your journey begins with a discovery beneath the Indian Ocean: Monsoon Rise, an immense underwater mountain rising from the seafloor.

Now, let’s investigate it.

Run your hands across the model to sweep the darkness with multibeam sonar, revealing the contours of the seabed. Deploy a CTD, one of the instruments oceanographers use to study the water column, and search for clues.

Something changes near the summit. A drop in oxygen. A rise in fluorescence. Could there be life here?

There's only one way to find out.

Send down the ROV and choose where it explores next, following the evidence into a world normally hidden from view.

Inspired by a real OceanX mission, *Seamount Scanner* puts the tools and decisions of ocean exploration into your hands. Then pull back and see the bigger picture: our blue planet is scattered with underwater mountains, many still waiting to be explored.

The next great era of exploration has begun.

Created through the OceanX Changemakers Community, bringing together creative technologists Ryan Barth and Eunseong Park, marine scientist and AI researcher Maria Arredondo, and marine biologist Professor Steve Simpson, working alongside OceanX scientists and educators across marine science, real-time visualisation, interaction design, and storytelling.