We impact the deep sea in many ways we don’t realise. Some are deliberate, some are accidental, some we didn’t even notice at the time. We talk about ways we have impacted the deep sea and touch on the huge problem that is marine plastic.
With the professor momentarily pinned down in perth, we thought it would be the ideal moment for him to talk to us all about his local waters, the great australian deep sea.
We made it to episode 50 and managed to pin down the professor to tell us all about his adventures offshore in the world’s second deepest point: the tonga trench.
Whilst Alan returns to life on land, we have a squid-tember special for you with our friend Kat Bolstad. This mini-episode will tell you all you need to know about the greatest time of the year: squidtember.
To finish off our elasmobranch mini-series, we’re getting into our personal favourite fish: the chimera.
Located in southern Siberia and covered in thick ice for almost half of the year, the colossal Lake Baikal reaches depths of 1600m making it the oldest, and deepest lake in the world. With hydrothermal vents, methane seeps and vast swathes of endemic species, this ancient lake was too tempting not to talk about.
