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So if you're just tuning in and
you haven't been out with us

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this cruise, I'm Stephanie
Farrington. I work at Harbor

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Branch Oceanographic and I'm
with Allen. Yeah, Allen Collins

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here of NOAA Fisheries and the
Smithsonian National Museum of

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Natural History and we are out
over the Blake Plate Plateau

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over 1080 meters to the bottom
and we are exploring the water

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column. The largest biome on
planet Earth. Encompassing

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about 95% or more of all the
livable space on the planet.

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Home to quadrillions of
organisms which is just a

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number too big to imagine. And
these organisms that live in

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the water column have a huge
impact on life on our planet

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they are really important in
the carbon cycle they move

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carbon from shallower waters to
deeper waters and then also to

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the ocean floor they are
excellent food for ocean

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sunfishes and whales and tunas
and many different commercial

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fishes. Oh. Cool.The amazing is out
there.