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Okay we've now seen a number of
these and I think the mystery

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will, will remain until a sample
can be collected or until

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someone you know will we can
also send some of these images

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which are really high quality
to some coral expert and and

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see if those could indeed be
some sort of coral. So it was

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just not described. I was not
listening for just one tiny

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moment of time. Is it a soft
coral or is it not a soft

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coral? So it's a possibility.
Excellent. I'm glad to

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hear it. At this point we still
don't know. Yeah. We're still

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not sure and we all really like
a good mystery. I think that's

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actually one of the things
that's most exciting about

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Okeanos Explorer. Yeah.
Um expeditions is that there's

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always at least one thing that
stumps you and often it's more

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than one thing for dive that
stumps you but this is a great

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one to try to figure out what
the bumpy blue thing is.

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So, the options are soft coral,
tunicate, or possibly even some

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sponge. Well, I can tell you
it's not a rock. But I will but

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I will definitely reach out to
some of my sponge colleagues

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here in the Caribbean. Blue
biomat. Mm hmm. I gotta push

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forward. I've been calling it
Blue goo. Blue goo? Blue goo.