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So that's kind of what
it looks like, that's

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the detail that we get
from the satellites when

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we stay zoomed in. Not
much to look at, not

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much to explore. It
looks like just a

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smoothed out minor bump,
and when you actually

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get down to brass tacks
and get the high

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resolution data, just
fascinating topography.

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And that's just simply
one of the most fun

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things about doing the
mapping of these

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seamounts is you have no
clue what the surface is

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going to look like until
you map it, and then

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once you map it, you're
imagination just goes

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crazy. It's like being a
little child again. Last

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year the Okeanos
Explorer mapped a little

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over twenty percent of
the monument and mapped

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three seamounts that had
never been mapped

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before. Just last night
we came upon a seamount

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that we did not know
existed, and these are

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enormous features. Some
of these seamounts that

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we just recently
discovered are over ten

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thousand feet in height.
For those in Hawaii,

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that's kinda like
finding Haleakala that

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we didn't know existed.