Avi Loeb

I had to get one and a half million dollars to fund it.

I got it, and then I had to bring a team of experts, people that know how to build a sled covered with magnets, put it on the ocean floor.

Then I had to worry about whether we bring back anything, you know, because... Didn't you bring your daughter on this adventure?

No.

Did you bring your daughter?

No.

Okay.

I mean, yeah, she was young.

Both of them were young.

I have $2.

Yeah, but so what's that like on the boat?

Is the crew excited?

I slept on the sofa in the conference room because I was full-time engaged.

Every time they would bring the sled back and we had to go and sometimes it was raining and...

and basically scrapped the magnets for any material collected from the ocean floor.

At first, this sled was basically kiting, just like a kite.

It was not touching the floor, and we had some exceptional people on this team that enabled that.

Eventually, we collected materials, but then I had to worry about bringing the materials back and then finding very reliable materials

world-recognized geochemist who happens to be Stein Jacobson at Harvard.

He has a full team with state-of-the-art instruments.