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Submarine Diving in Deep-Sea Galápagos | Best Job Ever


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·Nov 11, 2024

Today's office includes a submarine in the middle of the Galapagos. I would dare say that I have one of the coolest jobs in the world. Really, one animal that swims like that!

I'm in the Galapagos with the National Geographic Pristine Seas team. We're going in a submarine right now because it allows us to go deeper, to an area that's never been explored before. We need to make sure that we understand what's down there so that we can work hard to protect it.

The submarine actually gives off an electromagnetic field, which attracts sharks. Often, plastic—very period. We just had a silky shark at just 12 meters, so I can't wait to get down at 300 and see what we find.

I'm going to breach the seafloor. It's dark, so when a giant machine is down there with lights, organisms get curious. My gosh! Oh yeah, out of the blue, this swordfish just comes charging in and our lights— and we see a flash of silver. Oh my gosh, don't stab us!

It was an exhilarating experience—beautiful—and then it's gone. Not only the Galapagos are biologists' dream, truly mesmerizing, but I have the ability to do this with two other women. We might have been the youngest all-female team down in a submarine, sending a goal of trying to find a species arrangement.

I've never felt as much like an explorer than I do right now. There's something about being a thousand feet under the water, where no one else has actually ever been, that feels like true exploration. One of the best things about fieldwork is that there are always surprises.

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