"The raw numbers behind the $650 million Census of Marine Life are impressive enough: Almost 30 million observations by 2,700 scientists from more than 80 nations spent 9,000 days at sea, producing 2,600 academic papers and documenting 120,000 species for a freely available online database."
Check out the slideshow link for some neat pics...
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...rst-sea-census