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You know, I had a real rough time in school with ADD,
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I have a PhD. I earned a PhD but tough to pay attention to
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biology, geology, physics, chemistry, really tough for me.
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Only one thing grabbed my attention.
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And it's that planet called Earth, but
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in this picture right here you'll see that Earth is mostly water, that's the Pacific.
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Seventy percent of Earth is covered with water and you could say,
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"Hey, I know planet Earth, I live here." You don't know Earth.
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You don't know this planet because most of it's covered with that.
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Average depth two miles and when you go outside and look up at the like the Empire State building,
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Chrysler building,
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average depth of the ocean is 15 of those on top of one another.
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We've explored about five percent of what's in that water, explored. Meaning for the first time go peek and see what's there.
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So what I want to do today is I want to show you some things about this planet.
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About the oceans. I want to take you from some shallow water down to the deep water and hopefully,
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like me, you'll see some things that get you hooked on exploring planet Earth.
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You know things like corals, you've seen plenty of corals
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those of you that have been to the beach, snorkel, know that corals are amazing places to go.
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Full of life. Some big animals, small animals, some nice, some dangerous, sharks, whales, all that stuff.
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They need to be protected from humanity.
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Great places but what you probably don't know about
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is in the deep ocean, the very deep part of the ocean,
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we have volcanic eruptions, most volcanoes on Earth at the bottom of the sea.
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More than 80 percent and we actually have fire,
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fire deep inside the ocean, going on right now.
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All over the world, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean,
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this place, the ocean floor, the rocks actually turn to liquid.
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So you actually have waves on the ocean floor.
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You say nothing could live there but when we look in detail,
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even there, even in the deepest, darkest places on Earth, we find life,
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which tells us that life really wants to happen.
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So pretty amazing stuff.
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Every time we go to the bottom of the sea,
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we explore with our submarines, with our robots, we see something that's, that's usually surprising,
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sometimes it's startling and sometimes revolutionary.
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You see that puddle of water sitting there,
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and all around the water there's a little cliff, there's a little white sandy beach,
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we'll get closer to it. You see the beach a little bit better,
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some of the waves in that water, down there.
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The thing that's special about this water is that it's at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
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so you're sitting inside a submarine looking out the window at a little pond of water beneath the sea.
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You know we see ponds, we see lakes, we see rivers,
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in fact right here's a river at the bottom of the ocean going from the lower left to the upper right.
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Water's actually flowing through there.
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This totally blew our minds that how can you have this at the bottom,
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you're in the ocean looking at more water. And there's animals that only live in that water.
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So, you know the bottom of the ocean,
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I love this map because it shows in the middle of the ocean there's a mountain range.
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That mountain range is the greatest mountain range on Earth. It's called the Mid-Ocean Ridge.
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