Watch: Decomposing Dolphin Brings New Life to Seafloor | Expedition Raw

this common dolphin that just happened
to wash up on the beach where Noah gave
me a call said hey instead of putting in
the dumpster would you like to use this
for your project it was the perfect
opportunity we’re going to try to better
understand what happens in the deep
ocean when a dolphin lays to rest
prior to this no one has ever done time
lapse on deep-sea marine mammals
hopefully these cameras are going to be
able to tell the story of how this
animal decomposes over time we have no
idea if it was just going to sit there
and bacteria was going to cover it or if
a big shark was going to come the
installation just went perfect we lower
the frame down we were able to adjust
the cameras we turn on the drop cam and
I think we chose a really nice place for
the suck this dolphin it took us about
six months or so to really see all the
flesh disappear from the skeleton this
dolphin became a whole ecosystem
playground for lots of different animals
everything from the smallest little
bacteria up to larger crabs and
eventually octopus and smaller to medium
sized fish this was no easy task we know
so little about the deep-sea that it
takes animals like this to better
understand what is going on down there
our idea was to get the very first video
and photos ever of a crocodile’s jaws
closed around the camera we got our very
first attack on a very first employment