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We're actually having quite a
deep dive today. We started

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this dive at 3,443 meters
depth.

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Yeah, it's really it's like a
boulder field that we've landed

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in today. You know, from a
biological perspective where we

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see changing textures like
this, we often see a change in

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fauna. It's a very different
organism that likes to live on

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a flat plane versus an organism
that likes to live on kind of

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jumbled up rocky areas. And
we've just seen a lot of

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organisms so far considering
the depth we were potentially

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not expecting quite so much. A
lot of these corals grow at

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just a few millimeters per
year, food is relatively

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scarce. Uh these corals down
here don't have the zooxanthellae

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like the upper ocean corals do. They
don't photosynthesize so they

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rely on food fall.

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You can see more of these
bamboo corals. We are fortunate

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enough to get a little
collection of uh uh a small

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branch of one of these bamboo
corals. So we do potentially

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have some confirmation that
bamboo coral collection is one

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of the deepest uh that's ever
been made. So these are kind of

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very fun areas to explore.