Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
The Cooperative Investigation of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CICAR) is an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC/UNESCO), a 15-nations cooperative scientific effort, which is intended to conduct oceanography operations and cooperation programs in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea in the following themes: