(man chatters over radio)
- [Woman] Roger.
(gentle music)
This is gonna be a little bit of a different dive
In that we're headed to the sea floor
to inspect the ABISS Lander,
which we just launched off the back deck.
If you've been following along,
it's the silver frame with the orange top
that you've seen for the last few days.
Check about the landing spot.
See how it's set up there.
The plan is for that lander to stay
in place until September.
So we'll wanna make sure it's in the right location
for the science team to get the data
that they're looking for,
and then we will continue along the sea floor
collecting a few more push cores.
We're back in the deep sites.
So we're back more in the center of the basin,
where we expect to find those low oxygen conditions,
which are ideal for some of our target species
of (indistinct).
- [Man 1] Whoever spots the lander first,
could be on a sonar,
could be on a camera...
- [Woman] That's a great question.
I really don't know what actually.
- [Man] Could be right underneath it,
I don't think so though with the current.
- [Woman] Reginald, I got another
two zero meter step due north.
George says go east.
- [Man] Roger.
There it is. Found it.
- [Group] Whoa, its right there. Holy cow.
- [Woman] Oh my gosh.
- [Man] Well, it was the blip.
- [Woman] Whoa.
And look it's right where we planned.
- [Woman 2] Wow. It went straight down. That's wild.
- [Woman 1] I don't know if you guys could hear Bridge,
but George just tuned in to let us know he was right.
(laughing)
- [Man] That looks delicious.
(laughing)
- [Woman 2] It's tiramisu.
- [Woman 1] It does look like tiramisu.
- [Woman 3] So can you tell us a little bit
about the scoops here?
- [Womajn 1] The aim is to establish,
more or less, the same community
and the bio box mechanical release
that will dissolve in about a month,
and it will close the bio box.
And then when the ABISS is recovered,
we will be able to take those sediments and find four amps
and other things in there.
You'll notice the top of the bio box is clear.
Once we put the chemical in,
it's light sensitive, we need to leave.
Here instead of Harbor basin,
we're diving in a basin that is unique,
where the fact that it has extremely low oxygen conditions.
Now we're up on you think about like the bathtub edge,
the ring around,
and we're starting to see those...
Those are sea pens.
Those red stocks have an animal burrowing in.
- [Woman 2] Go down to the silver tape.
Keep going, and stop
- [Man] Here off the coast of California.
We're actually in what's called an upwelling zone.
And so the water has a ton of nutrients in it.
And you know, it can be frustrating
if you live on the west coast,
you want to see those pretty coral reefs,
but all of those nutrients for you,
things like kelp forests for us.
So we, we are happy with the fact
that we have very productive waters.
- [Woman 1] So we have a variety
of different kinds of push cores.
Most of them are quote unquote, regular.
They are just with different handles
and some are different heights.
The three on the front that have the large,
almost pinkish tubing lying off on them?
Those are injector cores.
So those, we want to place into the sea floor,
get them back in the quiver,
and then we squeeze the injector.
- [Woman 2] Requiring peers want to know science team,
have you found (indistinct), in the samples?
- [Woman 3] Yes. Yes.
There's lots of (indistinct),
and the ones that we're looking for,
were at the other site,
and they're the one that we're looking for
from this site is the Bolivina argentia.
We've found it here before,
but conditions are never exactly the same.
That's why we're trying three different depths here,
if we can, because they're kind of picky
about their oxygen, you know?
And we're not exactly sure what the concentration is here.
- [Woman 1] I believe we are done.
- [Woman 2] Beautiful.
- [Man] Coming out.
- [Woman 1] Let's get outta here.