Name: What It Feels Like 10,000 Feet Under the Sea
Uploaded: 2019-09-29T08:00:29.000Z
Duration: 2 min 10 s
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But I'm speaking to one of a handful of people

who have been to the deepest depths of our oceans.

at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

- [Bruce] Yeah, our average depth on most dives

- [Narrator] That's almost two vertical miles.

to go 10,000 feet below the water's surface.

- [Bruce] We dive, often, down near the equator,

You'll dive in the water and you hit a color of turquoise

that I have never been able to see anywhere else.

- [Narrator] But that blue doesn't last long.

- [Bruce] The sub spins the whole way down

and the whole way up, but you don't even notice.

you can look at the compass and see it's turning around.

- [Narrator] Within that darkness, small flashes emerge.

These are from animals who live at these extreme depths.

- [Bruce] You hit lots of bioluminescence.

The amount that you can see outside is astounding.

- [Narrator] And then you hit the bottom.

that you're headed to and you turn the lights on,

- [Narrator] In particular, areas with geothermal vents

or these underwater geysers, massive structures

that rise thousands of feet up towards the surface.

is astounding because there's nothing like it

Our perspective is altered by our experience

because you can't go and look at the ocean anymore

and think of it just as this endless, flat surface of water.

You have an understanding of what's underneath it.