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Participants can explore the RV Odyssey — one of the most advanced ocean research vessels around the globe — via the Metaverse.

Decentralized Ethereum scaling platform, Polygon, has announced a partnership with the Ocean Conservation Exploration and Education Foundation (OCEEF) to promote ocean literacy through new creative, entertaining, and engaging ways to give people exposure to deep underwater missions. 

A new wave in ocean conservation @oceef_, a world class ocean conservation NGO, is working with #Polygon towards a next-gen ocean conservation initiative.

The aim is to offer interactive experiences via a governance platform where participants can assist in key decisions. pic.twitter.com/N40r3iu54f

— Polygon - MATIC (@0xPolygon) October 6, 2022

Polygon shared that the aim of this collaboration is to offer interactive experiences via a governance platform where participants can help in making key decisions surrounding the RV Odyssey — one of the most advanced ocean research vessels around the globe. Participants will be able to explore the state-of-the-art research vessel via immersive and interactive experiences in the Metaverse.

The partnership intends to allow participants to play a key role in deciding the vessel's future itinerary, research, and even engage in the missions on board through the metaverse and other Web3 tools.

At the Green Blockchain Summit 2.0 hosted by Polygon, OCEEF Founder Alex Moukas said:

"Using our Polygon partnership and its carbon-neutral tech as a launchpad, we will be using technology to democratize access to the vessel through multiple Web3 platforms as well as provide participants with the ability to help decide the vessel's future itinerary and research.”

OCEEF will also allow groups of students to join their teams for different missions and dives. These opportunities will be made available through NFTs which would go towards funding the project.

Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Polygon spoke on the subject, saying:

"Being able to facilitate a global endeavor such as the one that OCEEF is undertaking is very humbling. I know that our technology is up to the task of bringing these types of immersive, educational, and change-making experiences to people all over the globe."

In April, Polygon’s core team committed to becoming carbon negative by the end of the year and dedicated $20 million to climate-related projects. Since then, Polygon claimed to hav achieved carbon-neutral status, eliminating 104,794 tonnes of greenhouse gasses, more than the entirety of the network’s CO2 debt since inception.