Geez. Talk about a Dr.Suess-like landscape.
Wow! Look at this.
This is amazing. If we could just hold this scene for a moment.
Wow.
This is attack of the sponges, here.
You wanted sponges, Chris. Yeah, I got them. That's, well, okay. I got 'em.
The great thing about this that I love is the way that they're all oriented directly into the current.
This one looks like a Muppet.
This is why sometimes I think these sponges, when you come up against something like this, you think you're on a different planet.
Just so strange.
Wow. It goes on and on, too.
Every time we do these dives, all I can think about is, this is the type of experience someone would have if they found life on another planet,
everything is so alien, at least for me, even though I've been doing it for five years,
it's still like I'm on another planet when we're down here.
Yeah, and it's definitely the same for me as well, pilot, because even though I work on these sponges,
a scene like this is just extraordinary.
And I'll toss my hat into the ring, too.
as a person who studies echinoderms, which are even more bizarre,
these things just stun me.
Like a forest of the weird.