Victor Vescovo

It's all frame of reference.

Have they done any, did you collect specimens?

Yeah, absolutely.

I had robots that went down with me.

We called them landers.

They didn't move, but they would come down with me and land on the bottom.

I had three of them.

They would act as navigation beacons for me as the submersible pilot.

So I'd kind of know where I am, but they could also take film for long periods of time.

And they studied everything that came up to feed on the dead fish that we'd put out for them.

And we also had traps.

where the animals that could move, like a mousetrap, we would have them come into these cylinders and we would capture them and then bring them all the way up.

It was tricky because these creatures, as they get less and less pressure on their bodies, they start to disintegrate, kind of melt.

So one of the procedures that we had to do was as soon as the landers came up onto the surface, it was a very rapid action drill to get the samples off the landers and into a freezer to freeze them so we could see what they,

mostly look like in their ambient environment.

But then we could compare what we brought up to the film and we could see, you know, what they basically had.

But really the key is getting their DNA and looking at their DNA.

I mean, for example, the scientists were fascinated to see is the DNA from all these different trenches all over the world, is it the same?

Or is it different?

Because there are significant implications to both scenarios.