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GIANT Expedition Deploys Boaty McBoatface to Map Greenland Melt

7/15/2026

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The GIANT expedition will deploy autonomous vehicles, advanced sensors and a 1,500-metre submersible “Boaty McBoatface” to collect glacier-ocean data.
About 80 scientists and crew departed Harwich International Port aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough for a five-to-six-week Greenland mission.
Researchers say the data will improve climate models, predict meltwater effects on the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and could alter UK rainfall, storms, agriculture and fish stocks.

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The GIANT expedition will deploy autonomous vehicles, advanced sensors and a 1,500-metre submersible “Boaty McBoatface” to collect glacier-ocean data.
About 80 scientists and crew departed Harwich International Port aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough for a five-to-six-week Greenland mission.
Researchers say the data will improve climate models, predict meltwater effects on the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and could alter UK rainfall, storms, agriculture and fish stocks.