- [Scientist 1] It is a fossil marine mammal,
piece of a marine mammal skull.
Someone who specializes in marine mammals
would be able to determine that.
It's totally covered in ferromanganese
so it's very doubtful we'd be able
to date anything useful there,
but we could at least get a species ID, potentially.
- [Scientist 2] Back grove, sorry,
we're gonna get off the subject too.
Subsequent proposal is the ISC Magnum has a lock jaw on it.
We could put the fossil in there
and bring it up and see if it stays.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah, so on the other arm?
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, other arm.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah, I mean, if it doesn't block anything
and it's sturdy in there.
- [Scientist 1] Oh, it'll be sturdy.
- [Scientist 3] Okay, so yeah.
(group chuckles)
- [Scientist 2] Okay, okay.
Can I look at it? Can you look at it?
- The magnum? - Yeah.
I was just gonna pick it up with this guy
but I understand it's easier
to place it into its jaw.
(group chuckles) - Yeah.
Across the side stand and then we'll just look out
that way when we're flying. - Okay.
- [Scientist 2] But I want you to grip it.
I think I want you to go mid.
- [Scientist 1] People tuning in
in the chat actually were suggesting
to use the left claw to hold the fossil.
- [Scientist 2] I was gonna say,
we have some dedicated fans there.
Definitely. (laughs) - Yeah.
So, would this be classified as a grab?
(group chuckles) - Pure essence.
- [Scientist 2] You want me to roll my wrist?
- [Scientist 1] I think you're good there,
actually. - Okay.
Just a little bit towards you or no?
Now, yeah, you've got it.
- [Scientist 2] Oh, that's a good wrist twitch right there.
- Okay. Ready? - Go ahead.
- [Scientist 1] Jaw close.
- All right, I like it. - Okay, I'm holding it.
So, will it stay closed if I let go of the jaw?
Okay, you promise?
- Promise. - Okay, I'm letting go.
Okay. (group chuckles)
I locked the jaw also. - Roger. Okay.
So let's figure out how we wanna stow this now.
- Okay. - So, toys away.
- [Scientist 3] A lot of the times
the sites that we're visiting
have never been visited before, never been explored before.
So, a lot of the animals down there
might be new or unusual to scientists.
So, one way that we can better understand these animals
is to first observe them,
but also sometimes we need a collection of them
because oftentimes there are many characteristics
about these animals or anything
we might see in the sea floor
that would be impossible to tell
from the really great ROV video cameras we have.
So, sometimes getting a physical sample
that we can either examine on the ship
or that we can examine back in our respective labs
through our various partnering repositories
would be really useful and helpful
for specialists to actually
either assign it a species identification,
in the case of a biological collection,
or do some additional workup
which might include things like microscope work
or microscopy, or you know, extracting DNA
that might be useful to barcode the sample
and compare it against other genetic code
from other like animals.
So, these are some of the things that we use,
some of the methods we use
to better follow up with these collections afterwards
- Those are nice. - Little mohawk corals
on the (indistinct). - Yeah, I'll cone it around.
- Those are very pretty. - Okay, go ahead and zoom.
- [Scientist 3] Zooming in.
- [Scientist 1] Let's actually take a look
at what we got here.
Go ahead and push on in.
I just wanna see what way you can grab easy.
Let's get there,
and I'll look a little bit to the left there.
- Left. - Let's see.
Do we wanna go for these guys here?
Hmm.
(gentle music)
I'm trying to get one. (laughs)
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
Beautiful.
- Ajar as well. - And ajar, you bet.
On that, let me know if you're concerned with it.
- [Dan] Go ahead and zoom there then.
- [Scientist 3] Yep.
So, this looks very similar to a sea cucumber
called bentho (indistinct) - 75 coming up.
- Too big. - 75%.
- There you go. - Are you fairly rigid?
- Ah, It's quite rigid, yeah. - If this one doesn't go,
we'll put it in the forward box.
- Roger. - Forward box.
- Maybe Lambda. - It might try
to make a run for it like- - Do you wanna put that out?
- Open the forward box, yeah. - Forward box going out.
Oh, I'm gonna hit you there.
- [Dan] It's all right, but it's me backin' up.
- [Scientist 3] All right, one second.
All right, it's fully out.
Auger step's getting down to 10 meters.
- [Dan] Yeah, roger. I'll come up here.
Okay, can kill the section. - Okay.
Suction off.
- [Dan] Is that enough there?
I can see if I can get off a branch.
- [Scientist 3] That's enough, yup.
That's all right.
You can keep going for the coral.
- [Dan] Lost the critter there.
I struggled on that one.
- That's like a calendar- - Still it could be done.
- [Scientist 1] It feels like a page out of
a calendar right there. - Still it falls in there,
well, hang up. - Sorry.
- [Scientist 2] Hand brand logo, (indistinct).
- Yeah. - Great.
- [Dan] Could go back to five on the Opal Cam.
Okay, you could go wide now please.
- So cool. - We going go
in the forward box there?
- That's the rumor. - All right.
- [Scientist 2] And then hello
to our science communication fellow.
- Oh, I see. - Christopher Clots and family
Thanks for exploring with us. - Can we move the boat
west 20 meters. - Steve is this from
the deep sea guide?
- It is under sea bed. - Sorry to (indistinct) there.
- [Steve] On the local one, I don't think so.
- Okay. - It's on the one
on the website here. - Oh, come on here.
Don't do it. - On the website-
- [Dan] Come down, come down.
- It's listed as- - Come down 5 meters.
- Cophabelmnon species- - Comin' down.
- Question mark. - Auto heading is off.
- Roger. - Now I don't know
if this one will try to run away like the last one.
- [Scientist 3] Delta's at two, one.
- Roger. - So it could be interesting.
- [Dan] Could be interesting getting
the surf gun out here against the rock.
- [Brandon] No kidding.
- [Scientist 3] If anyone can do it, it's you, Dan.
- [Dan] I'll do it, it just might not be pretty.
- [Scientist 2] We have...
(gentle music)
- [Dan] A sharp bend there, but let's see how it goes.
- [Scientist 3] Let me know when.
- [Dan] Ope, still got it right there.
- Hundred percent. - Still fighting.
- [Scientist 3] There you go.
- [Dan] Just one there.
- [Scientist 2] If you're watching in on this live channel,
three is the view of the section sampler canisters.
(gentle music)
So that's where our team is looking
just to be sure something is deposited.
- Okay, can go on. - Up in the sample jar.
- [Scientist 3] I'm gonna pop up a few meters.
I think I see it in there.
Is it stuck to the filter there or is there something?
- [Dan] I'm not sure, we'll let it-
- I think that's what it is. - Bend for a minute
'til the sand clears out there.
- While you're here, can you pop a (indistinct) in as well?
- Sure. - Afterwards.
- [Dan] If you want to, you can kill the suction there
for a second to see if it falls down.
- [Scientist 3] Suction killed.
Any star really, doesn't have to be that one,
but if you get more that's okay too.
(gentle music)
- [Brandon] So delicate, Dan.
- [Scientist 3] So you'll see when the colony's disturbed
all the polyps will close down axis.
We can go into the forward box on Lambda.
- Lambda. Roger that. - Lambda, yup.
Two branches tied together nicely
with the brittle star bow.
- [Brandon] Christmas came early. (laughs)
- [Scientist 3] It's the right current, right direction
to keep it nice and clean.
- [Brandon] There looked like a rock that would look
like a square in there.
Just a straight square, that was weird.
- [Scientist 3] So Brandon, could you tell us
how these nodule fields are formed?
Or what are they and how are they formed?
- [Brandon] So nodules are a big rock
precipitated out the water, they call it hydrogenic,
and it's sort of a accumulation of various metals,
iron and manganese.
That's why we call it iron manganese nodules,
as well as nickel and cobalt and other things.
Yeah, they precipitate outta the water column.
- [Scientist 3] I think that's good, we can stow it.
- Roger. - Nothing floating
in the tool tray, right?
- Nope. - Where do you think
is better in the forward box or?
Dan, do you have a preference?
It's easier to get in the starboard box for sure.
- [Brandon] All right, let's let's put it in E.
I think we have plenty of room in E.
- [Scientist 3] All right.
(gentle music)