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Sylvia Earle — Her Deepness

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Deepest Twilight Zone

Diving into the twilight zone, where sunlight fades and darkness begins to take over. There were corals that just grow in a single stretch, no branches, like giant bedsprings from the ocean floor. When i touched them, little rings of blue fire pulsed all the way down from where i touched to the base of these spiraling creatures. The submarine had lights on, and i asked them to turn them off so that i could see the darkness and revel in the bi illuminescence.

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