Is ocean exploration worth the risk? Yes, I believe ocean exploration is worth the risk. Ocean exploration is most definitely worth the risk because of the many things we've discovered from it. Benefits like medical advances and discoveries of new types of thriving deep-sea ecosystems and species has come out of ocean exploration.
People thought for the longest time, that no ocean life existed in the depths of the sea, below 1,600 feet. But, Cheryl Bardoe stated that, "scientists have identified more than 1,300 species in deep-sea chemosynthetic habitats."(lines 201-202) These new discoveries have also brought many benefits such as medical advances. For example Phillippe Coustea said, "AZT, an early treatment for HIV, is derived
