Vania what kind of shocked you my bitch
let’s go for sure all right
I’m Allen Torchic and I’m a mechanical
engineer with national Geographics
remote Imaging Group my role in this
trip is to utilize what are called the
deep ocean dropcam’s
it’s basically a camera inside a sphere
that sinks down to the bottom of the
ocean and films there so we can see what
kind of creatures live a really special
part of this chavis expedition is all
the collaboration that’s going on
between the scientists we have a bunch
of different groups of scientists that
are collecting all types of different
data one group is collecting information
about how organisms are traveling up and
down in the water column in my data
which composes of what’s on the bottom
can hopefully be linked with that and we
can complete an entire system that
extends from the bottom all the way up
to the surface
the oceans are really fascinating place
there’s just so much going on everywhere
all the way from the depths up to the
surface
there’s always exciting things happening
in the ocean the deep ocean actually
hasn’t been explored at all here so my
cameras are able to give us a view of
the life that exists down here which is
something that no one’s ever seen before
so this is really exciting for me
because it’s a it’s a whole new frontier
currently I’m getting the getting the
camera ready here I’m actually putting
the bait on the camera we we use the
bait with the camera to attract fish so
they’ll come into frame another thing we
have to get ready is still lights on the
on the camera so you can see those LED
lights that are actually inside the
pressure housing and they’re going to
shine out and reflect off these
reflectors and illuminate the scene this
is actually the release mechanism so
like I was saying before we take a we
take an anchor like this guy pretty
heavy about 40 pounds and we’ll attach
it to the shackle on the bottom and
right here this is called a burn wire
and it’s pretty cool what we do is we
put current through the burn wire and in
the ocean it’ll just corrode and release
the weight
okay let go yep don’t go okay here it
goes
one of the most important things is to
actually recover the Dropcam we start by
looking for the radio signal so I use
that radio receiver and I kind of sweep
the horizon and I’m listening for the
signal and once I hear it I’ll hear this
feat and then I can figure out exactly
what direction it is and I can tell the
captain hey look let’s go over here and
we’ll drive over there and then we have
to sit there with binoculars and scan
for this orange flag because it’s just a
tiny orange flag in this huge expanse of
blue ocean
ah you can hear it
it’s uh it’s out there
we just recovered both cameras which is
great
successful day so now the next step is I
have to charge the batteries and
download the footage and all I’ll take a
look and see hopefully there’ll be
something really cool
that’s a beautiful shot realize he was
all below 1000 meters actually
that’s an integer
these all attracted to the Baker I think
so yeah right speed or the light maybe
everything that we find here is a new
discovery so this is really exciting for
me because it’s a it’s a whole new
frontier you really don’t know what
you’re gonna get you know sometimes I
make predictions but you really don’t
know until you’ve put a camera down
there exactly what you’re going to see
you
let’s go for sure all right
I’m Allen Torchic and I’m a mechanical
engineer with national Geographics
remote Imaging Group my role in this
trip is to utilize what are called the
deep ocean dropcam’s
it’s basically a camera inside a sphere
that sinks down to the bottom of the
ocean and films there so we can see what
kind of creatures live a really special
part of this chavis expedition is all
the collaboration that’s going on
between the scientists we have a bunch
of different groups of scientists that
are collecting all types of different
data one group is collecting information
about how organisms are traveling up and
down in the water column in my data
which composes of what’s on the bottom
can hopefully be linked with that and we
can complete an entire system that
extends from the bottom all the way up
to the surface
the oceans are really fascinating place
there’s just so much going on everywhere
all the way from the depths up to the
surface
there’s always exciting things happening
in the ocean the deep ocean actually
hasn’t been explored at all here so my
cameras are able to give us a view of
the life that exists down here which is
something that no one’s ever seen before
so this is really exciting for me
because it’s a it’s a whole new frontier
currently I’m getting the getting the
camera ready here I’m actually putting
the bait on the camera we we use the
bait with the camera to attract fish so
they’ll come into frame another thing we
have to get ready is still lights on the
on the camera so you can see those LED
lights that are actually inside the
pressure housing and they’re going to
shine out and reflect off these
reflectors and illuminate the scene this
is actually the release mechanism so
like I was saying before we take a we
take an anchor like this guy pretty
heavy about 40 pounds and we’ll attach
it to the shackle on the bottom and
right here this is called a burn wire
and it’s pretty cool what we do is we
put current through the burn wire and in
the ocean it’ll just corrode and release
the weight
okay let go yep don’t go okay here it
goes
one of the most important things is to
actually recover the Dropcam we start by
looking for the radio signal so I use
that radio receiver and I kind of sweep
the horizon and I’m listening for the
signal and once I hear it I’ll hear this
feat and then I can figure out exactly
what direction it is and I can tell the
captain hey look let’s go over here and
we’ll drive over there and then we have
to sit there with binoculars and scan
for this orange flag because it’s just a
tiny orange flag in this huge expanse of
blue ocean
ah you can hear it
it’s uh it’s out there
we just recovered both cameras which is
great
successful day so now the next step is I
have to charge the batteries and
download the footage and all I’ll take a
look and see hopefully there’ll be
something really cool
that’s a beautiful shot realize he was
all below 1000 meters actually
that’s an integer
these all attracted to the Baker I think
so yeah right speed or the light maybe
everything that we find here is a new
discovery so this is really exciting for
me because it’s a it’s a whole new
frontier you really don’t know what
you’re gonna get you know sometimes I
make predictions but you really don’t
know until you’ve put a camera down
there exactly what you’re going to see
you
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