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A lot of life on this
particular rock here. I guess

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very indicative of what we've
been seeing since we landed

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which is just been amazing,
just beautiful. So, we started

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today's dive in a manganese
nodule field and here we are on

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the most northern peak at
really quite a shallow depth

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and we landed in these nodules
but also really what I would

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consider potentially a garden,
a coral garden.

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There are specific metrics that
uh you have to count the number

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of colonies within a certain
square footage and uh we'll

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certainly be doing a little bit
of that analysis later on this

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video. I would has it a guess
that this is actually a coral

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garden with the number of
species that we see here and

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just the density and diversity.
Right now at 1,732 meters depth

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which is uh one of the
shallowest dives of this

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expedition. As I sit here in
the back row, I have a little

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notebook and I keep a note of
what species are occurring on

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this dive and my list is
starting to go over into page

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number two. We've seen a lot of
species on this dive so far.

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It's really been a wonderfully
biologically diverse dive

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particularly for these deep sea
corals and sponges.

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Just beautiful.