NOAA-OAR-OER-2018-2005296
grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=295442

NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research OER seeks to enhance ocean exploration and scientific knowledge of the unknown or poorly known areas of the ocean. This entails identifying, describing and creating baseline characterizations of new ocean habitats, marine resources and/or processes. In this Announcement, OER is seeking proposals focused on three topics including:
1. Exploration of the deep marine environments in the US EEZ and US Outer Continental Shelf  of the Gulf of Mexico;
2. Discovery and exploration of prehistorically and historically significant submerged marine heritage sites in the Gulf of Mexico within the US EEZ and the US Outer Continental Shelf;
3. Novel or innovative technologies and methodologies that could increase the pace and scope of ocean exploration, especially exploration of deep environments including the water column and archaeological sites.
For themes 1 and 2, OER will not entertain proposals outside the US EEZ and the US Outer Continental Shelf  in the Gulf of Mexico. Proposals that combine more than one of these exploration topics are encouraged.