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It's gotta be the barrel-eye. The fish with the jelly head that can see through the top of its own skull. When you see it it doesn't look that impressive, and it looks quite small. but when you actually get close and zoom in on onit and realize what it is it just blows your mind. I think we've probably got the best footage that anyone's ever had, so that's amazing.

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I think the saddest scene we saw was in the Gulf of Mexico. We were about 900m down, there were beautiful deep sea corals covered in crude oil from one of the big oil spills. In the same area, there were also these crabs that they're now calling "zombie crabs." Because their genes have been messed up so badly they're actually being born with all these defects, neurological defects. And it's all come from some kind of spill at some point. So that was sad to see that.

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Because we "fly" the submarine in three dimensions. So although not as fast as an aeroplane, you do fly the submarine.

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I do love grapes. Mostly in wine form.

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Former SRV pilot here!

Normal dive is 12 hours. And we have four days emergency life support. We've got redundance systems for everything ("backup system" for others reading).

But in remote areas we always have the two subs, so the other one can act as a rescue sub.