We are exploring the most unknown place on our planet, that takes up most of the space on our planet.
This is the most extensive ecosystem for multicellular life on Earth.
We're very excited about doing this first-ever full day of midwater transects.
Oh wow. Oh my goodness.
Something was eating something else?
What on Earth?
The white spots are the ends of the tentacles it uses to catch its prey.
Oh, they're pleopods, too.
You can see the amphipods moving their pleopods.
Yeah. That's awesome. That's really incredible.
The midwater zone transports a lot of animals, a lot of biomass, throughout the globe, laterally, as well as vertically.
As these huge ocean currents move all these particles trapped within them, there's hundreds and thousands,
tens of thousands of kilometers.
So understanding exactly how this matter is distributed and redistributed, how it changes its form,
these kinds of questions can only be answered by looking at the midwater zone.
Oh wow.