Everyone ’s favored submarine is back , inPog form ! look no , that ’s not right . It ’s just back .

Yes , Boaty McBoatface has reelect from itsfirst journey , send deep into the Southern Ocean near Antarctica , where it experienced some of the coldest abyssal ocean body of water on Earth .

It was sent on an military expedition funded by the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ) , who lead thenow famous votethat prompt Boaty to stardom . During three junket , researchers used Boaty to get information on temperature , speed of water , and underwater turbulence rates of the Orkney Passage . This is about 4,000 beat ( 13,000 foot ) deep , and 800 kilometers ( 500 mi ) from the Antarctic Peninsula .

“ We have been able to collect monumental amounts of data that we have never been able to capture before due to the way Boaty ( Autosub Long Range ) is able to move underwater , ” Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato from the University of Southampton , who led this excursion , said in astatement .

“ Up until now we have only been capable to take measurements from a fixed point , but now , we are able to obtain a much more detailed picture of what is happening in this very important underwater landscape . The challenge for us now is to analyze it all . ”

Boaty was carried by the shipRRS James Clark Ross , spending seven weeks out and about , before return to Southampton last week . The expedition , calledDynOPO(Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow ) , is aim to inquire the flow of Antarctic Bottom Water ( AABW ) into the Atlantic Ocean through the Orkney Passage .

This was Boaty ’s first Antarctic ocean trip , traveling more than 180 kilometers ( 110 geographical mile ) by its own , and experiencing water cold than 0 ° deoxycytidine monophosphate ( 32 ° atomic number 9 ) . It ’s thought that interchange wind over the Southern Ocean may be affect seafloor flow that carry AABW , which is what Boaty was investigating . As the rate of flow gets faster , it could affect global mood alteration .

It was n’t all clean sailing , though . At the outset of one of its foreign mission , Boaty encountered a swarm of krill that was so dense it thought it was at the seabed – when it was actually just 80 meters ( 260 feet ) deep . “ However , the top side was that we did see lots of whales near the ship ! ” Povl Abrahamsen , Physical Oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey , state in the statement .

In the hereafter , Boaty will be place out on theRRS Sir David Attenborough , the ship that was named after the veteran soldier spreader in the vote Boaty won . Although humorous , Boaty ’s name was deemed a bit inappropriate for a vas that would be travel in treacherous water , but it lives on in the form of three grinder – including this one .