David O’Sullivan is part of the Advanced Mapping Services team at the Marine Institute and Ireland’s national seabed mapping programme, INFOMAR. David was Chief Scientist onboard for the SeaRover research survey (2017-2019) which mapped sensitive marine habitats at depths of up to 3000 metres in Ireland's offshore territory using the ROV Holland 1. The SeaRover team encountered cold-water coral reefs, documented new species within Irish waters and discovered a rare shark nursery 200 miles west of Ireland.
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INFOMAR is the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications funded national seabed mapping programme, jointly managed and delivered by Geological Survey Ireland and the Marine Institute.
SeaRover was funded by the European Maritime & Fisheries Fund and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
