© Dr Tom Kwasnitschka (left) and Dipl.-Ing. Jan Sticklus bringing light to the deep sea with their innovation. Photo: © Jan Steffen, GEOMAR
© The GEOMAR’s AUV ABYSS is equipped with 24 of the new LED lights. Photo: © Emanuel Wenzlaff, GEOMAR
© A shot of the seabed in the East Pacific at a depth of 4,000 metres. Thanks to the new LED technology, the scientists at GEOMAR were able to create hundreds of thousands of such images to form a huge photomosaic. Photo: © AUV "ABYSS", GEOMAR