Related: <i>Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean's Deepest Secrets</i><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-science-joides-resolution.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-sci...</a><p><a href="https://archive.is/3UMcU" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/3UMcU</a><p>(via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360598">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360598</a>, but no comments there)
So this ship exists, but the funding for the expeditions have been cancelled from the NSF (US).<p>The wrinkle at the end seems to posit the China challenge - and possibly that's for the best as the US seems to have given up on non-military seafaring ventures.