We like to let our hair down a little for the Christmas episode and do something a little different. We recorded video this episode! You can find the video version of this podcast on our YouTube page. Me and Alan crack out some mulled wine and decide to interview each other for this episode. Things get a little off the topic of deep sea but it’s all in good fun (if a little dark at times).
We won’t leave you totally without some deep-sea updates though. We still have our news section which includes new research into how sponges may be able to think, a deep-sea crawler that has been tirelessly surveying Station-M for seven years, a new species of deep-diving beaked whale, a new and really nice video of the creepy bigfin squid, can rockfish help us live longer and it turns out that Terry the fat shark is real.
No episode would be complete without checking in with Don Walsh, who tells a story of a Christmas in the Western Antarctic… the far side, and Larkin who has her Christmas plans suddenly change while trying to leave her ship in Mexico.
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, we hope you have a wonderful time. See you all again in the new year.
 
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Glossary
Box core: A large sediment sampling device that takes one huge sample
Grimpoteuthis: the dumbo octopuses
Hadal: Deeper than 6000 m
Holotype: a single specimen expressly designated as the name-bearing “type”
Lander: a freefalling vehicle which sinks to the seabed and returns to the surface by dropping ballast
MBARI: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Multi core: A large sediment sampling device that takes multiple smaller samples
Paratype: A specimen cited along with the type collection in the original description of a taxon
ROV: Remotely Operated Vehicle
Sunk Cost Fallacy: Sticking with a bad idea because you have already invested so much in it.
 
Links
Sponge neurons
Benthic Rover II
New beaked whale
Paper
New bigfin squid video
Chunky shark
Deep-sea rockfish longevity
Paper
Mammoth tusk
Garfield phone beach
Ray Troll
Paleo Nerds Podcast
Burial at sea
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Larkin’s YouTube channel My Salty Sea Life
 
Credits
Theme – Hadal Zone Express by Märvel
Sound effects from the BBC archive
Logo image
Terry the fat shark
Our countdown timer at sea