Join the Department of Ocean Science (OCES) and the Consulate General of France in welcoming to HKUST the distinguished French deep sea divers Jérémie Morizet and Maeva Onde from Deep Ocean Search (https://www.deepoceansearch.com/), who will share with us their journey and experience in relation to deep sea exploration around the world. A particular focus will be on their record breaking expeditions to the Philippine Trench (with a deepest point of about 10,500 metres), and the Endurance22 expedition, which located and found the wreck of the "Endurance", the ship that was used in the 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic.

Date: 14 November 2025 (Friday)

Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Venue: Room 2304, Lift 17/18 (TBC)

Note: There will be an opportunity to interact and mingle with the speckers over light refreshments after the event.

Please register HERE.

Brief biographies

Jeremie Morizet
A leading deep-sea diver from Normandy, France, he is a specialist in survey operations and shipwreck research, such as for the UNESCO project Archeomar and the search for the ship Re d’Italia.  In 2005, he joined Comex Deep Sea Salvage to work on innovative ultra-deep surveys.  As part of this, he transformed the ice breaker John Lethbridge into a state-of-the-art abyssal research vessel.  Since 2010, he has worked for Deep Ocean Search, including on the Endurance22 Expedition.
 

Maeva Onde
She is from France and is a graduate of L’Institut national des sciences et techniques de la mer (Intechmer) in Normandy, France.  She is a Senior Surveyor at Deep Ocean Search, where she has worked since 2010 as Hydrographic Senior Surveyor & Party-Chief.  She was a long-standing member of the Endurance22 Expedition, working with the remote-controlled submarine and makes several appearances in the film ENDURANCE.