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This is a feature lovingly named the "Richardson Jellyfish."

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When you look at the bathymetry of this area, it has a very strange shape to it.

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The Okeanos Explorer has been out here mapping in this Blake Plateau region since I guess about 2010, 2011.

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Since that time, we've actually mapped over 65,000 square kilometers of seafloor.

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That's about the size of West Virginia or so. So that's a very impressive thing to have done in our 10 years occupation of the Okeanos Explorer and our seafloor mapping endeavors.

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We keep finding these mounds. We keep finding these ridges. We keep finding these scarps. That have evidence of life that was previously unknown to be there.

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That's what we do on the Okeanos Explorer is that we connect these pieces, we investigate and we explore.

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It's very exciting and fun time to provide, again, that spatial context, which I love connecting those dots.