Did you know that 70% of Australian waters are deeper than 1000m? Now that’s a lot of deep sea! We hear from the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre’s deputy director, Dr Todd Bond about the huge array of marine geographical features and biodiversity in Australia’s waters. Plus, Alan clears up some ongoing Australian-isms that have left him confused.

We also check in with our resident squid expert - Dr Kat Bolstad after the highly anticipated Squidtember comes to a close. Did you vote for your favourite squid, and if so, how did they score? We reckon Alan’s recent videos from the Tonga Trench (that he teased last episode) might’ve had a subtle influence…

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New remote sensing technology allows for detailed measurements of deep-sea environments

New chimaera just dropped

100 million year old microbes found 75 m below the seabed are still alive

Biotwang mystery solved

Octopoteuthis - Same sex spermatangea implantation

Ceph Ref - Demo site & GoFundMe

‘Puppet’ squid Grimalditeuthis - Article and MBARI video

Kat Bolstad - Head of AUT Squid Squad lab in Aukland, New Zealand

Sarah McAnulty - Squid biologist, science communicator & purveyor of squid facts

Meg Mindlin - Cephalopod biologist, illustrator, photographer & science communicator

Ryan Howard - Cephalopod vision, AUT Squid Squad

Todd Bond - Deep-sea ecologist & Deputy Director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre

Andrew Stewart - Curator of Fishes at Te Papa Museum, New Zealand

Charlie the Unicorn - In the ocean blue

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