Right after I completed my Ph.D.,

Well, there's also another program, in another agency within our government, in ocean exploration.

Well, I could stand here for hours, but, of course, I'm not allowed to do that.

Well you may see the impact already now.

Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report 2015 to 2019.

Because one of the things that's frustrated me as a deep sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

It was amazing. These giant chimneys, huge giant chimneys.

We need new deep diving submarines.

So one of the tools that we use to sample the deep ocean are remotely operated vehicles.

It's open access you can all go in and download data as you wish.

And that's why biodiversity data can be so valuable.

And finally, we wanted to see where we could look at what the impact of this structure would be in the marine environment, and we set up a field site at a place called Moss Landing Marine Lab in Monterey Bay, where we worked in a harbor to see what impact this would have on marine organisms.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We'll look at sea level rise.

Robotic rover

For those of you who've been there, fantastic coral reefs, fantastic diving, fantastic snorkeling.

Voyages of exploration were the earliest in the history of studying the ocean.

So stay tuned for further information.

The equalization of the oceanic

With scientists around the world, I've been looking at the 99 percent of the ocean that is open to fishing and mining, and drilling, and dumping, and whatever to search out hope spots, and try to find ways to give them and us a secure future.

Light detection and ranging.

Attention, robot probes!

All the things we're going to walk through in our explorations and discoveries of the oceans were mostly discoveries made by accident.

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

like black carbon, that is soot.

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live in our ocean and yet remain unfilmed until now?

I've been working on ocean pollution for quite a long time the impacts on marine life and particularly the impacts on marine mammals.

And there are a lot of other pressures.

We made a chip that has every known virus ever discovered on it.

We'll look at ocean warming.

We have a device.

Japan is also surrounded by oceans.

WOMAN ( over radio ) The yacht Tranquilizer.

And Dave Gallo signed on.

We thought we needed a marine protected area of about 30 kilometers, and then we put a satellite tag on the back of a penguin.

And we started the Sorcerer II Expedition, where we were, as with great oceanographic expeditions, trying to sample the ocean every 200 miles.

In the early '70s,

But it's not just the carbonate producers that are affected.

One of these days we will. ( mellow theme playing ) WOMAN ( over radio )

And we're letting industry run the show.

Well, law, Soylent, oceanography...?

Send a robot probe!

So we wanted to also investigate what would be the impact of this system in the marine environment, and I mentioned we set up this experiment at a field site in Moss Landing Marine Lab.

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.