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Geez. Talk about a Dr.Suess-like landscape.

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Wow! Look at this.

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This is amazing. If we could just hold this scene for a moment.

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Wow.

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This is attack of the sponges, here.

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You wanted sponges, Chris. Yeah, I got them. That's, well, okay. I got 'em.

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The great thing about this that I love is the way that they're all oriented directly into the current.

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This one looks like a Muppet.

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This is why sometimes I think these sponges, when you come up against something like this, you think you're on a different planet.

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Just so strange.

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Wow. It goes on and on, too.

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Every time we do these dives, all I can think about is, this is the type of experience someone would have if they found life on another planet,

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everything is so alien, at least for me, even though I've been doing it for five years,

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it's still like I'm on another planet when we're down here.

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Yeah, and it's definitely the same for me as well, pilot, because even though I work on these sponges,

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a scene like this is just extraordinary.

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And I'll toss my hat into the ring, too.

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as a person who studies echinoderms, which are even more bizarre,

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these things just stun me.

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Like a forest of the weird.