Seventeen times to the moon and back –a record has been set for the greatest distance sampled by a marine survey!
Established by Sir Alister Hardy in 1931, the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey has been collecting information about the health of our oceans, in the form of “plankton sandwiches”, for decades. Now in its 90th year, the CPR survey have sampled over 7 million nautical miles of ocean – ample to be awarded the Guinness World Record for the greatest distance sampled by a marine survey!
Read the full article by the Marine Biological Association: https://www.mba.ac.uk/blog/continuous-plankton-recorder-survey-goes-distance-win-guinness-world-record