Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh has con­grat­u­lat­ed the team be­hind Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first sci­en­tif­ic ex­pe­di­tion to ex­plore the na­tion’s deep wa­ters, prais­ing their com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing ma­rine sci­ence and ex­pand­ing knowl­edge of the coun­try’s ma­rine bio­di­ver­si­ty.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, Swarats­ingh con­firmed that sci­en­tists from T&T and around the world are past the halfway mark of the jour­ney aboard Schmidt Ocean In­sti­tute’s state-of-the-art re­search ves­sel, RV Falkor.

The re­lease stat­ed: “Spe­Seas, a non-prof­it NGO in Trinidad and To­ba­go that un­der­takes sci­en­tif­ic re­search, ed­u­ca­tion and ad­vo­ca­cy, leads the deep-sea sci­en­tif­ic ex­pe­di­tion named Deep Won­ders of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the High Seas.