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Good morning deep sea
explorers. So today we're on

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dive fourteen of the NOAA Ocean
Exploration Expedition North

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Atlantic Stepping Stones. This
is a seamount that was

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previously unmapped until the
early hours of this morning by

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the fabulous mapping team and
has been uh not dove on before

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so it's gonna be exciting dive
today exploring this brand new

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new seamount. Like so many
aspects of deep-sea biology,

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there's just uh so many
unknowns and so many things to

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explore and discover. Exactly, and you know, it's the value of

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these expert expeditions that
we're doing. We're still

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collecting observational data
and the more observational data

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that we can get, the better we
can phrase the questions, what

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are the hypothesis that we need
to test but all science starts

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with basic observation and so,
that's why this is so valuable.

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Absolutely, Scott. You know,
these exploration dives really

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do provide that first look. You
know, we're looking for

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organisms and resources in the
deep sea that we didn't know

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were there and so, to do that,
we have to have these eyes on the

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ground, the ability to look at
the bottom and see what things

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look like in situ.