Aliens of the Deep Page #6

Absolutely fantastic,

Look at that fish,

You see that guy?

All right, we got us a Dumbo,

Been hoping for this for a while,

What a beautiful animal,

What a beautiful animal, Look at that,

Like a dancer,

What an amazing creature,

God, you could watch this guy all day,

Almost looks like

he's glowing from within,

MIR One, MIR One,

This is Rover Two, Do you copy?

MIR One, MIR One,

do you copy? This is Rover Two.

MIR One, MIR One,

This is Rover Two, Do you copy?

It's intermittent, Jim,

Sometimes yes and sometimes no,

Uh, roger, Mike,

We're seriously low on power

and will have to leave the bottom,

I cannot get ahold of Vince,

We must go up,

Genya, We must go up,

Oh, he's trying to say something,

about...

He's trying to say...

Look out the porthole,

I can't see him,

Can you call surface?

He's saying, "Up and over"?

Might be,

We need you to contact the surface

that we are ascending,

Can't read it, Zoom in,

Let's see if you can read the sign,

"Contact surface, must surface,"

Understood, We'll contact them right now,

Ares surface comm,

Rover Two leaving the bottom

at X minus 244, Y minus 25,

depth 741 meters,

- So, how was it, Jim?

- We got the goods, We definitely got it,

Ah, that thing is phenomenal,

How you doing?

- What did you see down there?

- Oh, it was just incredible, Just incredible,

There was a huge, um...

Was it a jellyfish?

Some type of gelatinous...

Massive, Like, a meter,

We think that it was feeding

off of the, uh,

off the amphipods and the plankton

and the copepods that were next to...

- Hanging out at the lights?

- Hanging out at the light, yeah,

- How's it work?

- Man, we don't know,

- But it's there, So it's working somehow,

- Exactly,

- Life's pretty cool,

- Yeah, absolutely fantastic,

- Welcome back, Kevin,

- Thanks,

- Team Rover,

- Go team Rover!

My name is Maya Tolstoy,

and I'm a marine seismologist

at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

I study underwater volcanoes,

and particularly I study the earthquakes

that these volcanoes make.

And I'm trying to understand

how the Earth is made,

how the surface of

the planet is formed.

I'm going to be deploying

ocean-bottom seismometers.

Those are instruments

that listen to earthquakes

and other noises on the ocean floor.

In the ocean,

the light only goes so far.

And so sound allows you

to basically see the bottom of the ocean,

and to see into the ocean crust, the way

that light lets you see on the surface.

We put the instruments over the side of

the ship. They drop, they gather the data.

Normally, I don't have to dive

in order to do my job.

So it was very exciting

to finally see the environment

that I've been working on

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