Omnichord
[Monologue: David Gallo]
—rine, this is an Alvin launch, there's three people. They're being wheeled out onto deck. There's forty-seven other people, the teamwork on that ship, making sure that these people are okay

Everybody in that submarine is thinking one thing right now: Should I have gone to the bathroom one more time? 'Cause it's like—you're in there for ten hours—ten hours in that little sphеre, three of you together, and nobody is gonna bе around you

You go into the water and once you hit the water, it's amazing. There's a lovely color blue that penetrates right inside ya. You don't hear the surface ship anymore, you hear that pinging of a sonar. If you've got an iPhone you've got sonar on there, it's that same pinging that goes down to the bottom and comes back up

Divers check out the sub to make sure the outside is okay, and then they say "Go," and down you go to the bottom of the ocean, and it's an amazing trip. So for two and a half hours you sink to the bottom. And—and two hours of it is totally pitch black. Now we thought nothing could live inside that world at the bottom of the ocean. And when we look, we find some amazing things

All the way down—what we call the mid-water—from the top of the ocean down to the bottom, we find life. Whenever we stop and look, we find life. I'm gonna show you some jellies here because they are absolutely some of the coolest creatures on Earth. Every different—Look at that thing, just flailing his arms around it. That's like a little lobster—That one's like all these animals with their mouths goin' hooked together, they're colonial animals. Some animals are tiny, some can be longer than this stage

Just amazing animals—and you can't collect them with a net, we have to go actually there with our cameras and take a look at them. So every time we go, new species of life, the ocean's full of life

And yet, the deepest part of the ocean—when we go to that mountain range, we find hot springs. Now we were sure—because this is poisonous water, because it's so deep it would crush the Titanic the same way you crush an empty cup inside your hand—we were sure there would be no life there at all. Instead, we find more life and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest

So in one instance, in one peek out the window of the sub, we discover something that revolutionizes the way we think about life on Earth; and that is, you don't always have to have sunlight to get life going

There's big animals down there too, some that look familiar. That guy's called Dumbo, I love him. Dumbo's great—