Good morning deep sea explorers. So today we're on
dive fourteen of the NOAA Ocean Exploration Expedition North
Atlantic Stepping Stones. This is a seamount that was
previously unmapped until the early hours of this morning by
the fabulous mapping team and has been uh not dove on before
so it's gonna be exciting dive today exploring this brand new
new seamount. Like so many aspects of deep-sea biology,
there's just uh so many unknowns and so many things to
explore and discover. Exactly, and you know, it's the value of
these expert expeditions that we're doing. We're still
collecting observational data and the more observational data
that we can get, the better we can phrase the questions, what
are the hypothesis that we need to test but all science starts
with basic observation and so, that's why this is so valuable.
Absolutely, Scott. You know, these exploration dives really
do provide that first look. You know, we're looking for
organisms and resources in the deep sea that we didn't know
were there and so, to do that, we have to have these eyes on the
ground, the ability to look at the bottom and see what things
look like in situ.