Victor Vescovo
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we didn't know until we went and actually did it.
And it turns out a lot of it is different.
But remarkably, there are trenches that are separated by thousands and thousands of miles that are basically the same creature.
And yet, how were these trenches ever connected?
How did they migrate?
It's a mystery.
We don't know.
We found one creature in the Java Trench off of Indonesia.
It was the strangest thing I've ever seen underwater.
It was about at 6,000 meters.
And just recently, they saw something that looked exactly like it under Antarctica.
No kidding.
What did it look like?
It looks like a jellyfish with a cable coming out the back end of it.
It was bizarre.
It's called the stalked ascidian.
It more or less looks like a jellyfish, but it didn't move like a jellyfish.
It looked like a balloon sort of, but it was moving and it came right up to the lander, did a right turn and crossed it.
And it was just bizarre.
Oh yeah.