Divers Search for Tiny Animals in Iceland’s Fissures | Expedition Raw

I used to think there was nothing left
to be found I realized that we’re really
just scratching the surface of what is
really here the first time I did in a
picture I almost wanted to drop my
regulator I didn’t expect anything that
beautiful to exists no other team has
ever studied the biology or the ecology
of underground fissures when we dive in
the fissure were carrying around 40
kilos of equipment the strenuous access
can make it very very risky we’re
creating a sibling to gain better access
to the water
it’s a little bit steep over there so we
let me be very careful but sometimes we
just have to jump you get this powerful
brain freeze when you first come into
the fissure the very crystal-clear water
is a dead giveaway that there’s not much
living in the water column if you look
closer you’ll start seeing that there
are in fact thousands of animals there’s
many different habitats within one
Fisher we have species living here which
can’t be found anywhere else in the
world we vacuum the biological material
off the wall bring it to the surface as
we’re collecting samples to take after
the lab
so far we’ve made some exciting
discoveries like a copepod species no
one knew existed in Iceland film I’ll
have to take it to the lab and go
through the whole sample I really like
combining these two passions of mine the
diving in the science