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We are uh about 270 miles
northeast of Bermuda. Three seamounts

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have never been visited
before. They've never been

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mapped before this morning.
We're doing a true exploration

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dive this morning. As Rhian
said, this is all new

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exploration, so we're seeing
this for the first time.

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There's of course the the iron
manganese crust that will tell

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us something about water
chemistry and mineral

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composition. We can use that to
uh understand the evolution of

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of this seamount and also figure
out an age of when the

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material was was erupted. You
know, expeditions like this and

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the tools that the Okeanos
Explorer provides are really

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valuable because we get this
material that can go to the

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museum and then we can do these
comparative studies.