The Deep Sea (w/ Dr. Andrew Thaler)

In this episode, "The Deep Sea with Dr. Andrew Thaler", the crew dives deep into the sea! We interview Dr. Andrew Thaler about deep sea vents, mining and the crazy metals that accumulate down there. The deep abyssal plane accounts for 50% of the earth's surface and yet we still know so little about it. We also discuss some of the interesting and funny facts about Reynolds Wrap, General Mills and deep sea submersibles. You’d never guess how these relate! So SUBMERGE yourself in learning as we go on a grand deep sea adventure!This podcast is brought to you by the lanternfish. Classified into the order Mictophiformes, there are over 240 species of these deep sea dwellers. Lanternfish need no matches to light their lantern-like structures but rather depend on bioluminescent bacteria. In the olden-times lanternfishes were hung in the doorways of old houses to illuminate their entrances. And you believe that, I’ve got a lanternfish to sell you. Cheers to you lanternfish, may you light up our lives forever.Be sure to check out Andrew’s company, Blackbeard Biologic. You can also check out his long-running ocean science and conservation blog, Southern Fried Science. Andrew is also one of the founders of Oceanography for Everyone, which aims to provide low cost and open source tools to support ocean science.Finally, be sure to check out his D&D themed Ocean Science Podcast: Dugongs and Seadragons!Thanks for listening to Gettin’ Fishy With It! You can find our website at www.gettinfishywithit.com/. You can find us on BlueSky at @gettinfishypod.bsky.social, and on Instagram ⁠⁠@gettingfishypod⁠⁠. You can also find us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠. If you want to drop us an email, you can send your complaints (or questions!) to [email protected] theme music is “Best Time” by ⁠⁠FASSOUNDS⁠⁠. Our audio in this episode is edited and produced by Christine Archer. Check her out on all the socials @nerdrvt!We very much appreciate you taking the time to listen to our eighty-first episode! Please help out the podcast by subscribing on your podcast platform of choice. If you could leave us a review, that would be super helpful!Thanks, and we'll "sea" you again in two weeks!Additional audio credits this episode:"Adventures in Adventureland" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/