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Listen up underwater explorers, researchers, and filmmakers. If you've been wanting to add a remotely operated vehicle to your inventory of tools, National Geographic and OpenROV may be able to help you out. The two organizations have joined forces to give away 1000 underwater drones to help others who are focused on revealing the secrets of the deep. Next year, Nat Geo and OpenROV will launch what they call the Science Exploration Education (SEE) program, which is designed to help advance our understanding of the Earth's oceans. As part of that initiative they'll be handing out a remotely operated vehicle that has been specifically built for use underwater. Priced at $1700, this undersea rover comes equipped with cameras, lights, and a propulsions system. The entire unit sits at the end of a 25 foot (7.6 meter) tether, that allows a pilot on the surface to control where it goes and what it sees. The rover itself was developed by OpenROV and built from the ground up to be...

When I was in the Southern Ocean last year, I witnessed a penguin colony with more than 400,000 birds. It was one of the most amazing sites i have ever seen. In this video, National Geographic takes us to another such site, this time located at South Georgia's St. Andrews Bay. The clip below will give you a sense of the sights and sounds (but not the smells!) that come along with such a massive penguin population. It is something that has to be seen to be believed, but it is truly an amazing experience.

A few months back the world was transfixed by the story of a young soccer team in Thailand that became stranded in a cave when rising water closed off their only means of escape. If you thought that was a harrowing experience however, then wait until you read an article that was posted to the National Geographic website yesterday. It shares the details of a team of cave explorers who were in a true race against time as flood waters poured into the subterranean chambers that they were mapping. The actual event took place in a place called Veryovkina, which holds the distinction of being the deepest cave system that we know of so far. Located in the Eastern European country of Georgia, the cave has been explored and mapped for more than 50 years. So far, we know that it is at least 2212 meters (7257 ft) deep, with more passages and chambers to be explored yet. Back in September, a team of spelunkers dropped into Veryovkina to continue the slow process of discovering its hidden dep...

Cambodia's famous stone city and temple complex Angkor Wat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , mixing history, culture, and unbelievable craftsmanship into one sprawling location. For many of us, a visit to this place is extremely high on the bucket list, although National Geographic has made such a visit a bit easier thank to this clip. In the video below, you'll get an epic tour of the Angkor complex, not only getting up close and personal with some of the important structures and sculptures there, but aerial shots of the region that help to give it a sense of scale. If you've always wanted to visit Angkor Wat but haven't quite made it there yet, this clip will help tide you over until you can get there in person.

We're nearing the release of the new climbing film Free Solo , which documents Alex Honnold's climb up El Capitan without using ropes. That was a herculean display of skill and strength that perhaps no one else in the world could have pulled off. But in order to make a film of that historic ascent, there had to be other climbers on the rock face. So just how exactly did a team of cameramen, directed by none other than Jimmy Chin , capture all of the impressive footage? In a new article that appeared in National Geographic magazine and has now been posted online, writer Peter Gwin sits down with Chin and Honnold to find out how this groundbreaking documentary was made. Needless to say, in order to capture the footage he would need, Chin �� who is a world class climber in his own right �� would bring on an entire team of amazing climbers to assist with the project. But those climbers needed more skills than just being able to ascend El Cap quickly and safely. They also needed ...