The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a global competition challenging teams to advance breakthrough technologies for rapid and unmanned ocean exploration, recently announced that 21 teams across the world will advance to compete for the competition’s $7 million prize. Tampa Deep-Sea X-plorers has passed the first milestone and is one of 21 semi-finalist teams who will test their deep-sea mapping technologies in Round 1 in September 2017. Teams will deploy their entries to operate at a depth of 2,000 meters, racing…