Here's what our trawl samples from the plastic soup our ocean has become look like.

For example, these tuna that were once so abundant in the North Sea are now effectively gone.

The troll market! The troll market?

The flashing lights keep the worm safe.

Troll in the dungeon!

And I was luck enough to capture one of these when we were on a trawling expedition off the northwest coast of Africa for Blue Planet, for the deep portion of Blue Planet.

How about some X Prizes for ocean exploration?

Elevation extreme

So within three years, from 2003 to 2006, we were able to get norm in place that actually changed the paradigm of how fishers went about deep sea bottom trawling.

They have a cavetroll.

It's a fag worm. An ugly Scottish troll.

Deepsea marinelife exploration.

She took it surfing, parasailing, deep sea diving.

The coelacanth inhabits the deep sea.

Still waters.

like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.

However, nobody knew how much G forces common zoo plankton could survive.

It is your shadow in the deep sea.

(Video) Narrator

This is an organism we described in 1996.

The Enchantment Under the Sea dance! They're supposed to go to this.

Troll boogers.

You've proven yourself against a troll.

If it's too big or too toxic for a landfill, deep six it!

the massive depth and pressure there, coupled with subfreezing temperatures, would crush and entomb them,

We kill using long lines, with baited hooks every few feet that may stretch for 50 miles or more.

And no confirmed DSRVs on sight?

And this can take quite a while.

I went looking for the troll.

Then you let the troll in!

So I actually developed a proposal to go out with a cargo ship and two decommissioned fishing trawlers, a crane, a chipping machine and a cold molding machine.

So it's a deep think about it in a big three dimensional space, very deep three dimensional space with herds of tuna, whales, all kinds of deep sea marine life

Let me give you a little peek here of the Phoenix Islands protected area.

I think that's got to be scaring a lot of animals away.

But mostly I'm entranced by it.

The ocean contains most of the exchangeable heat on the planet.

We go on physical adventures, and recently, I found myself in a kind of precarious spot.

Move your body like a hairy troll

Agent Sherman, we are going into the troll market.

Gentlemen, welcome to the troll market.

(Laughter)

It's clearly undisturbed by us.

Our species are ocean basin wide.

Surprisingly profound for a narrative about a sponge.

And as a result, patent trolls can kind of live in the space in between.