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- [Scientist] Oh, bubbles coming up from right there.
- [Scientist 1] Oh, yeah, there we go.
- [ROV Pilot] Oh, yeah.
Wanna zoom in Mary,
I'll try and frame that up?
- [Scientist 2] Good eye, Sam.
- [Scientist 3] On the underside
of all these carbonate rocks,
looks like it's either bacterial covered.
- Close. - Methane hydrate there.
- [ROV Pilot] Then it stopped.
- It could be hydrate, yeah. - Oh, hello.
- [Navigator] Blurp.
- [Scientist] Yep, they're kind of blurping out
of multiple spots.
- [Scientist 2] Look at the size of those bubbles.
See if we're going to get a sample, wow.
- Wow. - Yep.
- [ROV Pilot] Holding position.
- [Scientist 2] That's within, like,
5 meters of where Susan gave us a target
that's pretty good.
- There's another one. - Oh, yeah.
- [Scientist] There's another one.
- [Scientist 2] This is pretty rich here.
- [Scientist] Oh, and there's a big coral right
behind the coral sampler.
- [ROV Pilot] That one seems
to be more active than the other one.
- [Scientist 2] And this is not
as strong a plume as the southern one.
- [Scientist 3] Oh, this methane that's being created,
the two major sources are thermogenic
from the earths crust or just below,
the other source
that could potentially be creating this methane is biogenic,
from a deposit of decaying organic material
that has been metabolized by bacteria.
- [Scientist] Herc, look what you're doing.
- [Operator] Now we're producing some...
- [Scientist 2] Lots of bubbles, wow,
look at that plumbing go, huh,
that rock fish could care less about what's going on.
- [ROV Pilot] Right, I've frozen it there.
- [Operator] So now we need patience.
- [ROV Pilot] Short supply.
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- [Scientist] Look how it's shaking,
though, with the current.
- [ROV Pilot] That's more the arm,
got a lot of miles on it.
- [Scientist 2] Wow, it's really going.
- [Navigator] It is filling up, though, slowly.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- [Scientist 2] And it's forming ice.
- [Navigator] Oh, look at that.
- Ice. - If you look at bubble cam,
you've still got a little bit
of filling to do. - Exactly, yeah,
there where it gets trapped,
on the funnel we have the formation.
- [Scientist 2] Good job, video.
- [Scientist] Looks like it's forming one big,
massive hydrate bubble in the tube.
- [Spectator] Are these going up into that metal canister?
- [Navigator] They will be,
right now they're sealed off.
- [Spectator] Oh, so they're just in there, okay.
- [Scientist 2] Frozen, yeah.
- [Operator] Yeah, I think it looks
like we are not getting more
than what we have right now from the angle of the funnel,
I think we just, we sample what we get here.
- Okay, we go now? - Yeah.
- [Navigator] All right, here we go.
- Ah, perfect, okay. - Well that was cool.
- Wow. - That worked really well.
- Yeah (laughs). - All right, oh, good.
- Fantastic. - Thank you, great.
- [ROV Pilot] All right, nice and wide.
- [Scientist 2] Okay, yeah,
where we'll get the temperature probe
is back where bubbles are coming out.
- [ROV Pilot] Right.
- [Scientist 2] Would be nice to get a frame grab with
that marker right there, yeah,
'cause it shows us the current.
- [Scientist 3] Time is just flying tonight.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, it's been a fun site.
- [Scientist] Do you need the lamp on?
- [ROV Pilot] Let's see where the bubbles come out
and then we'll make a readjustment.
- [Scientist] No onset, okay.
- Right there, wow. - Wow.
- [ROV Pilot] We need to reposition the probe.
- [Scientist 2] Wow, life is the bubbles,
we got no troubles,
life is the bubbles. - Right.
- [Scientist] Geez.
- [Scientist 2] It looks cool on bubble cam too.
- [Spectator] In bubble cam?
- Yeah, see bubble cam there? - Wow.
They collect in bubble cam, yeah.
- [Scientist 2] That's right, they collect there.
- [Navigator] Geez.
- [Scientist 2] Collect enough
and the whole thing just lifts off the ocean.
- [ROV Pilot] Really disappointing
in the temperature change.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, well,
a negative result is still a result, yeah.
- [Scientist] I was gonna say,
now watch the one next
to the hydrophone's not gonna be bubbling anymore.
- (laughs). - Yeah,
we stole all it's bubbles.
- [Scientist 2] I think we're gonna
cause a warming event here.
- [Navigator] I'm bringing it up, Bob.
- [Scientist 2] Oh, look at the ice on the lens, yeah,
wow, getting an up-close look at methane hydrates.
Whoa, look at all those bubbles,
got a methane bath.
- Bubbles. - Oh, yeah, there we go.
- Yeah. - Jackpot.
- [Scientist 3] That's a nice bubble stream.
- [Scientist] That's a great bubble stream for tomorrow,
that anemone is just covered in that white fringe.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, that's pretty constant.
- [Scientist 3] So we're gonna do a temperature reading
and we're gonna leave a marker, all right, so--
- [Spectator] I don't think you're gonna get 20 out of that.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah, most likely not,
so we're at 3.45 right now,
3.50, 3.57-- - So a lot
of people are asking-- - 3.62--
- What the temperature is for? - It's alive.
- [Scientist 3] 5.85, 5.76, 5.90, 6.94, 6.99, 6.97,
7.62, 8.81-- - What?
- 8.28-- - Oh my god.
- [Spectator] Hopefully nothing just broke.
- [Scientist 2] We're having a heatwave.
- [Navigator] It's like a hot tub down there.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
- [Spectator] That's the record here, isn't it,
for this cruise?
- [Scientist 3] There are some long temperature probes
that are made for these types of studies,
and so possibly if people are curious enough
into the preliminary results we're seeing here,
they might come back and explore it further.
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