WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.143 Okay we've now seen a number of these and I think the mystery 2 00:00:04.143 --> 00:00:07.663 will, will remain until a sample can be collected or until 3 00:00:07.663 --> 00:00:10.703 someone you know will we can also send some of these images 4 00:00:10.703 --> 00:00:16.343 which are really high quality to some coral expert and and 5 00:00:16.343 --> 00:00:20.983 see if those could indeed be some sort of coral. So it was 6 00:00:20.983 --> 00:00:23.543 just not described. I was not listening for just one tiny 7 00:00:23.543 --> 00:00:26.103 moment of time. Is it a soft coral or is it not a soft 8 00:00:26.103 --> 00:00:32.583 coral? So it's a possibility. Excellent. I'm glad to 9 00:00:32.583 --> 00:00:38.703 hear it. At this point we still don't know. Yeah. We're still 10 00:00:38.703 --> 00:00:42.983 not sure and we all really like a good mystery. I think that's 11 00:00:42.983 --> 00:00:44.903 actually one of the things that's most exciting about 12 00:00:44.903 --> 00:00:48.583 Okeanos Explorer. Yeah. Um expeditions is that there's 13 00:00:48.583 --> 00:00:52.343 always at least one thing that stumps you and often it's more 14 00:00:52.343 --> 00:00:55.343 than one thing for dive that stumps you but this is a great 15 00:00:55.343 --> 00:01:02.203 one to try to figure out what the bumpy blue thing is. 16 00:01:02.203 --> 00:01:07.083 So, the options are soft coral, tunicate, or possibly even some 17 00:01:07.083 --> 00:01:10.883 sponge. Well, I can tell you it's not a rock. But I will but 18 00:01:10.883 --> 00:01:14.723 I will definitely reach out to some of my sponge colleagues 19 00:01:14.723 --> 00:01:20.043 here in the Caribbean. Blue biomat. Mm hmm. I gotta push 20 00:01:20.043 --> 00:01:26.203 forward. I've been calling it Blue goo. Blue goo? Blue goo.