But Dr Voight says the experience is a wake-up call to everyone working in the deep ocean.
What is going on in the deep ocean is so badly understood that estimates of biodiversity there range from 100, 000 species to 100m.
Furthermore, ecosystems situated in the deep ocean, where biodiversity and habitats often have major value, but are generally not well understood, have virtually no protection at all.
And it's true of drilling in the deep ocean, which, as the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico showed, we obviously haven't figured out quite yet.
But this is an emerging and highly complex area of science because of the interplay of natural factors and manmade greenhouse gases at a time when a key set of temperatures - in the deep ocean - is still relatively unknown.
Although the Met Office has 1998 as the single warmest year, that coincided with strong El Nino conditions - the warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific that releases heat stored in the deep ocean into the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally.
Specimens have washed ashore on beaches but never before have been filmed in their normal habitat deep in the ocean, researchers say.
The proximity of offshore wind in the the Atlantic Ocean to deep demand centers avoids the problems of moving power over long distances and significantly enhances the economic fundamentals of mega projects like those currently being considered in North Carolina.
These organisms, which have fundamentally different metabolisms to normal microbes, are found in hydrothermal vents on the deep-ocean floor and in rocks and springs hundreds of metres below the surface of the Earth.
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What happens in the vast, deep ocean, out of sight and beyond the reach of sunlight and satellites?
"You pass a lot of agonizing hours watching somebody try to do something at the end of a cable a mile long -- down in the deep, dark ocean, " he says.
Scientists with San Diego biotech firm Diversa have descended into volcanoes in Siberia, plumbed thermal vents 3, 000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean and crawled around the humid rain forests of Costa Rica.
It took four searches over the course of nearly two years to locate the bulk of Flight 447's wreckage and the majority of the bodies in a mountain range deep under the ocean.
But we are having to spend more oil to get oil, as we drill deeper, and drill in the deep water of the ocean.
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Chavez will also have to pay far more attention to developing offshore gas plays sat deep in the Pacific Ocean rather than monetised into state coffers.
"I looked at it as a four-legged stool with one leg very deep in the ocean, " recalls Fluxman, a tanned, toned South African who first came aboard as chief financial officer and chief operating officer, stepping up to chief executive officer six years ago.
The other approach is less risky, and involves removing carbon directly from the atmosphere and burying it in vast ocean storage beds or deep inside the earth.
Right here on Earth, surprisingly hardy life-forms have been found inside hot underground rocks, around scalding volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean, in desiccated Antarctic valleys and deep beneath polar ice.
Deep in the South Indian Ocean , these two protected World Heritage sites, a mere 1, 010 sea miles north of Antarctica, are rarely visited, and not at all for the past decade.
The billionaires are bankrolling expeditions to reach the deepest place in the ocean, a spot called the Challenger Deep that lies at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles below the surface of the South Pacific.
Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.
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Scientists have found creatures thriving in places that would poison or cook most life on earth--deep inside rock, under the ocean or in hot springs, places that are extremely salty, or acidic, or bathed in radiation or heavy metals.
The resulting photosynthetic activity could, in theory, increase the storage of carbon from the atmosphere into the deep ocean.
Marine biologists working in the Pacific Ocean say they found a tasty deep-sea fish that is unexpectedly thriving.
In 1960, Piccard's father, Jacques, descended seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean in another pressurized module to set a deep-dive record that has been matched only twice.
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In 1960 Don Walsh, along with Jacques Piccard, undertook an eight-and-a-half hour decent in the bathyscaphe Trieste to the deepest part of the ocean, the 10, 911 metre (36, 000ft) Challenger's Deep in the Mariana Trench off the coast of the Phillipines.
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