Aliens of the Deep Page #5

the next best thing:

Looking at life in the extreme conditions

of the deep ocean.

He's a theory guy

and he's never been to sea before,

let alone inside a submersible

headed to the bottom of the ocean.

Here we go,

Into the unknown,

Rover Two, MIR Two copies you

loud and clear now. Loud and clear now.

Yeah, it looks like

it goes down for a long ways,

MIR Two is right above us,

Very few people get to see

MIR Two from this angle,

That is fantastic,

The scale of these things

is so much larger than I had imagined,

It's just amazing,

We've got this huge,

huge carbonate structure,

Unbelievable,

Copy that.

Right rotator going up, rotator going up.

It's just the hot water just flowing up

and slowly forming stalactites,

Upside-down stalactites are slowly

deposited, millennium after millennium,

So what's interesting

about these

is that you don't necessarily

need plate tectonics,

You need some means for the water

to react with the deep mantle rock,

And then you get

the serpentinization reaction

which produces the heat that drives

the formation of such systems,

It's absolutely phenomenal,

Do you want to go ahead

and proceed to the summit? Over.

Roger that,

- There's warm water up here,

- Yeah,

The vent fluid is just

coming right up out of here,

Wow, This is just amazing,

Our technology is just

at the level now

where we can safely explore

the depths of our own ocean,

- Kinda friable,

- Yeah,

OK,

Yeah! Look at that,

- We got a rock,

- Hey, we got a sample,

Rover One, Rover One,

this is Rover Two, Do you...

- Oh, my goodness, look at that!

- Oh, Christ!

Holy cow,

- OK, stop it, stop it, stop it,

- Kevin. You seeing this?

Look at that thing,

That is absolutely unreal,

See if you can

get your lights right on it.

Roger that,

Oh, my goodness,

Look at that, it's just amazing,

Oh, man, look at this thing,

Look at this thing,

This is incredible,

How can something

like that be alive?

How does a creature like this work?

That is absolutely phenomenal,

Beautiful,

Absolutely beautiful,

See the reticulation inside this thing?

Look at that,

That is amazing,

I have no idea what that is,

- No,

- That's what I love about this stuff,

Every single dive, you're gonna see

something you've never seen before,

And you might even see something

that nobody's ever seen before,

Are you seeing this thing?

Look at this,

This is, like,

the ugliest fish in the world,

Oh, he's got feet! Look, he's got feet,

He's got, like, little toe-socks,

The thing about deep diving is you

always need to expect the unexpected.

Oh, my God,

look at that squid,

Oh, it's massive,

Look, look, look,

Quick, look,

See it?

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