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There's been a lot of
excitement about these holes.

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One of the things we're all
interested in is how almost

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perfectly aligned these are and
the regularity of the spacing

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of the holes and the size of
the holes themselves. And the

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shape of the holes. And the
shape. I will say the

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angularity, the
rectangularness. Right, I

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agree. I mean, my first thought
also is that that looks

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something man made. They're so
perfectly spaced. I mean, why

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would it always be that
spacing? If you look in the

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fossil record, there are also
indications of similar sorts of

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features and so this suggests that
there's an organism that has

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been making these sorts of
features for a very long time.

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In the paper that Mike Vecchione
and his colleague wrote, they

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were at about 2,000 meters I
believe. We've got no idea what

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makes these things that we
don't even know if they're made

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by something underneath the
surface, you know, making a

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tunnel occasionally punching up
a hole or so made by something

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walking along the surface and
down through the the sediment.

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Uh it's, it's a mystery
basically. It's clear that

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everybody does love a mystery.
Uh the public and scientists

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including. So as the public has
been hypothesizing about what

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might have caused these holes
in social media put up by our

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wonderful partners at the
Global Foundation for Ocean

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Exploration. Scientists have
also been chatting back and

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forth about possible mechanisms
to create these holes and we've

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heard everything from from deep
ocean floats to gastropods. I

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had an interesting email that
suggest that something had laid

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some eggs subsurface and when
those eggs hatch basically they

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create those eruptive mounts
whales feeding whaleon the  bottom,

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beaked whales specifically, I
think I'm going with the idea

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that there's something there's
probably a tunnel connecting

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these underneath the surface.
I'm really still hoping that

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I'll, I'll hear from either a
member of the scientific

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community or a member of the
public with with an explanation

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that is just you know spot on
incontrovertible. Yeah it just

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makes complete sense because
we've had a number of them and

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you know they all well not all
but a lot of them have strong

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merits to them but none of them
are what I would say

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conclusive.