The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface discovered a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden outing.
The unmanned submarine, whose moniker won a landslide victory in a public poll to name a $300 million British polar research ship, undertook its inaugural mission in April 2017.The task saw McBoatface travel 180 kilometers through mountainous underwater valleys in Antarctica, measuring the temperature, saltiness and turbulence in the depths of the Southern Ocean.
The British public voted in droves in 2016 to name the country's state-of-the-art new ship"RRS Boaty McBoatface," with the user-suggested name gathering 124,109 votes.But despite the poll doing the impossible and uniting the country's electorate, the Natural Environment Research Council rejected the result and dubbed the ship RRS Sir David Attenborough after the renowned TV naturalist, in an effort to spare its blushes.
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