"You can go for hundreds of meters along the and see nothing. But then you’ll get to a and it will be a garden of exotic creatures. The vents are like the . The seawater percolates down through cracks caused by earthquakes, and then it comes up through these underwater chimneys. There are lots of ores there like copper, gold, silver, and s. There’s so much life there, and it’s very different from what we’re used to seeing. Whenever scientists go down, we almost always find new creatures."
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Biologists from the United StatesMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumniOceanographersMarine biologistsDuke University faculty
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Cindy Lee Van Dover
(born May 16, 1954) is an American marine biologist, deep-sea explorer, professor of biological oceanography, and leading expert on biodiversity and of . She was the pilot-in-command for 48 dives of . She was appointed the 2000 Rachel Carson Lecturer of the and was elected in 2001 a Fellow of the .
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