WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.333 --> 00:00:16.833 Oceanographic and Atmospheric 2 00:00:16.833 --> 00:00:18.833 Administration is part of the office of 3 00:00:18.833 --> 00:00:20.000 national marine sanctuaries in the 4 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.967 Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. 5 00:00:23.967 --> 00:00:27.000 I work as a marine ecologist, I lead and 6 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.700 coordinate scientific expeditions in support 7 00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:35.400 of resources protection in the area. Exploration 8 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:39.000 has an enormous value I think, every single one 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.400 of us at some point has this dream of becoming 10 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:45.900 either an astronaut or an explorer and most 11 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:48.400 people at some point in their lives start 12 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:50.200 thinking that we know everything there is to 13 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.333 be known, but the truth is that we don't know 14 00:00:53.333 --> 00:00:55.667 even the slightest thing there is about the vast 15 00:00:55.667 --> 00:01:08.500 majority of the what the planet is. In two 16 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:11.067 thousand fifteen in the expedition with the 17 00:01:11.067 --> 00:01:14.000 Okeanos Explorer we had a total of eighteen 18 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.133 dives, both inside and very close to the 19 00:01:17.133 --> 00:01:19.667 boundaries of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine 20 00:01:19.667 --> 00:01:22.367 National Monument. And in this very short 21 00:01:22.367 --> 00:01:25.300 period of time, just over three weeks, we 22 00:01:25.300 --> 00:01:28.000 imaged many hundreds of species that were not 23 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.167 known to exist in this region. We also 24 00:01:31.167 --> 00:01:35.000 collected a limited amount of samples, so we 25 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.000 came back with thirty five biological 26 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.233 specimens, and every single one of these 27 00:01:39.233 --> 00:01:41.833 specimens turns out to be either completely new 28 00:01:41.833 --> 00:01:43.767 species or a species that did not know 29 00:01:43.767 --> 00:01:45.767 existed here in this area.