WEBVTT 00:00:19.661 --> 00:00:23.521 The way that we have historically interacted with 00:00:23.521 --> 00:00:26.881 the ocean under the category of exploration has been through 00:00:26.881 --> 00:00:30.481 the lens of science. The questions of modern science, 00:00:30.481 --> 00:00:37.101 the tools and techniques of modern science. Today's view of 00:00:37.101 --> 00:00:41.661 ocean science has been very strongly influenced by the 00:00:41.661 --> 00:00:45.501 voyage of the HMS Challenger, which happened 150 years ago 00:00:45.501 --> 00:00:54.161 and is understood to have been the first oceanographic voyage. 00:00:54.161 --> 00:00:58.321 We're able to stand on the shoulders of other explorers 00:00:58.321 --> 00:01:01.481 and pioneers that came before us. They used different 00:01:01.481 --> 00:01:04.881 technology. We're a little bit more advanced, but the same 00:01:04.881 --> 00:01:11.041 spirit is there. The Challenger produced 50 volumes of reports 00:01:11.041 --> 00:01:14.961 which absolutely laid the foundation of ocean knowledge 00:01:14.961 --> 00:01:21.161 on which today's ocean exploration continues to build. 00:01:21.161 --> 00:01:26.041 As Americans, we've always been looking beyond the frontier, 00:01:26.041 --> 00:01:31.481 always exploring, having an eye towards new discoveries. Pilot 00:01:31.481 --> 00:01:34.761 has control, cool descent. We're uncovering so many new 00:01:34.761 --> 00:01:39.881 things that are really alien to us, but all of those are just 00:01:39.881 --> 00:01:43.401 stepping stones, building blocks to be able to gain a 00:01:43.401 --> 00:01:45.801 better understanding of the ocean and you need those 00:01:45.801 --> 00:01:47.801 building blocks if we're going to be able to make the 00:01:47.801 --> 00:01:50.361 right decisions on how to interact with the ocean in the 00:01:50.361 --> 00:01:54.981 future, how we're going to manage our resources. We have 00:01:54.981 --> 00:01:59.381 climate change, we have ocean acidification, all of those 00:01:59.381 --> 00:02:04.621 things that scientists tell us about. Just as much as 00:02:04.621 --> 00:02:08.541 we see change on a climate scale here on the surface, all 00:02:08.541 --> 00:02:12.461 of that's happening underwater as well. 00:02:14.161 --> 00:02:18.021 It's not a quiet place. It's not a still place. There's 00:02:18.021 --> 00:02:21.541 currents that rip around these areas on the bottom of the 00:02:21.541 --> 00:02:25.221 ocean that are driving the circulation throughout the 00:02:25.221 --> 00:02:28.581 whole globe. To gain a better understanding of that is super 00:02:28.581 --> 00:02:35.281 important. Exploration should never just be centered on 00:02:35.281 --> 00:02:37.921 scientists. We should always center our exploration in a 00:02:37.921 --> 00:02:40.561 broader context. We should be able to take that exploration 00:02:40.561 --> 00:02:43.761 and translate it for the public, to give it to the public for 00:02:43.761 --> 00:02:46.401 them to be able to understand. And that's how we get the 00:02:46.401 --> 00:02:48.561 public excited about exploration; that's how we get 00:02:48.561 --> 00:02:51.201 the public excited about what lives on the deep ocean, and 00:02:51.201 --> 00:02:55.121 that's how we get that next generation of scientists. Pilot 00:02:55.121 --> 00:02:58.161 dive super. Go ahead dive super. Let's just send at 15 00:02:58.161 --> 00:03:02.801 meters a minute. Hold at fifty. Good copy. 00:03:03.661 --> 00:03:08.321 The history of science as a field used to only study people 00:03:08.321 --> 00:03:11.841 who were considered scientists, who considered themselves to be 00:03:11.841 --> 00:03:17.201 scientists, and there's now a recognition that it's important 00:03:17.201 --> 00:03:24.121 to make that lens a bit wider. We look at the ocean one way, 00:03:24.121 --> 00:03:27.761 but you don't have to go too far working with different 00:03:27.761 --> 00:03:30.241 coastal communities where they see the ocean in a completely 00:03:30.241 --> 00:03:38.101 different way. <> As a coastal Chumash person, 00:03:38.101 --> 00:03:45.301 everything in my culture includes the ocean. Means waves 00:03:45.301 --> 00:03:51.141 come in. The waves go out. The ocean was doing that before I 00:03:51.141 --> 00:03:54.741 was born. The ocean will continue to do that when I'm 00:03:54.741 --> 00:04:01.141 gone. We can't live without the ocean but without us, she will 00:04:01.141 --> 00:04:08.101 go on. The ocean is absolutely essential to create the 00:04:08.101 --> 00:04:14.121 conditions for life on earth and it is up to us to take care 00:04:14.121 --> 00:04:18.841 of it and learn about it so that we can take better care of 00:04:18.841 --> 00:04:25.241 it and we should do that in our own interest.