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We are exploring the most unknown place on our planet, that takes up most of the space on our planet.

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This is the most extensive ecosystem for multicellular life on Earth.

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We're very excited about doing this first-ever full day of midwater transects.

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Oh wow. Oh my goodness.

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Something was eating something else?

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What on Earth?

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The white spots are the ends of the tentacles it uses to catch its prey.

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Oh, they're pleopods, too.

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You can see the amphipods moving their pleopods.

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Yeah. That's awesome. That's really incredible.

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The midwater zone transports a lot of animals, a lot of biomass, throughout the globe, laterally, as well as vertically.

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As these huge ocean currents move all these particles trapped within them, there's hundreds and thousands,

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tens of thousands of kilometers.

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So understanding exactly how this matter is distributed and redistributed, how it changes its form,

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these kinds of questions can only be answered by looking at the midwater zone.

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Oh wow.