Victoria, Seychelles - Seychelles President Danny Faure dived deep into the Indian Ocean Sunday to call for protection of "the beating blue heart of our planet."
Faure, who has made environmental protection a top priority, was taken down more than 120 metres in the submersible vehicle Ocean Zephyr which is being used for a mission dubbed "Nekton Deep Ocean Exploration" and which is rated for depths of more than 500 metres. The Nekton mission is to spend seven weeks studying underwater life, mapping the sea bed and placing captors at depths of up to 2 000 metres in the nation's waters.The nation is particularly vulnerable to the destruction of coral reefs that comprise many of its smallest atolls.
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