Abyss Report: Into the Dark
The mystery a single dive solved, read off the instruments: ROV telemetry, sonar and spectrogram.
The 52 Hz Whale Paper Never Used the Word Lonely
Since 1989 a single source in the North Pacific has been making a tone near 52 hertz. It was tracked for twelve consecutive seasons by the US Navy's SOSUS arrays and published in D...
The Worm's Name Stopped Being Correct Before Most People Heard It
One thousand six hundred and eighteen metres down, on the same dive as this channel's last episode, a robot finds a worm colony living directly on solid methane -- rock that catche...
The Lake at the Bottom of the Sea
At 1,624 metres in the Gulf of Mexico there is a lake, with a shoreline, a beach and a rim of drowned mussels. In 2017 a NOAA robot parked over it for twenty-five minutes with two ...
The Squid Nobody Has Ever Caught
In 2021 a NOAA robot spent four minutes filming a five-metre squid at 2,382 metres in the Gulf of Mexico. No intact adult of this animal has ever been collected - everything scienc...
Nobody Has Ever Heard the Bloop, Including You
The most famous mystery sound in the ocean is a recording running sixteen times too fast. Undo that, and the event lasted two minutes and forty-one seconds and sat between thirteen...
Nobody Could Name the Golden Orb, So They Took It
In 2023 an ROV found a smooth gold dome stuck to a rock 3,250 metres down in the Gulf of Alaska. Nobody watching the live feed could say what it was - and the control room recordin...
The Type Specimen of This Species Is a Video File, and the Animal Swam Away
Almost every named animal on Earth has one physical individual set aside in a museum, in a jar, as the standard that decides what the name means. This one has a video file instead ...