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Good morning! This is Mike Ford from the Silver Spring Exploration Command Center, here at the NOAA headquarters.

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Today, we're conducting a midwater exploration

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striving to collect information about the types of animals that live in the midwater of the ocean in this particular location.

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The midwater of the ocean is a region of the water column

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from about 200 meters deep all the way down to the seafloor.

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The midwater of the ocean is perhaps the largest biome on the planet.

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The largest biome that's habitable by life.

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Numerous organisms live here and they're highly influential to how the ocean works

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and interact with surface biology for fisheries and protected species and certainly interact with the bottom here.

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I think this chimera counts as a water column animal, it's swimming in the water column.

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(laughing) That counts!