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🗓️ 28 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. |
0:11.5 | On the web at theshmit.org. |
0:14.9 | You're listening to Shorewave from NPR. |
0:20.1 | Hey, Shorewaver, Regina Barber here. |
0:22.3 | And Emily Kwong. |
0:23.5 | Back with our next installment of the Seacamp series. |
0:26.8 | M, where are we going this week? |
0:28.7 | We are diving into the twilight zone of the ocean. |
0:32.7 | That's 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface, |
0:36.1 | are about 650 to more than 3,000 feet. |
0:39.8 | And it's where the sunlight is still present, but it's very dim. |
0:43.4 | The twilight zone. I love this name. It makes me think of one of my favorite TV shows. |
0:48.3 | Is it mysterious like the show is? |
0:50.5 | Do do do do do do do do do do. It is. It is. Noelel bolin the marine biologist of the national oceanic and |
0:57.0 | atmospheric administration who we met last week says we don't know a lot about the twilight zone |
1:02.4 | because of its depth which is also known as the mesopilagic zone it is hard for us to access it |
1:08.9 | as you can imagine it's there's great amounts of pressure. |
1:11.8 | There's not a lot of oxygen. |
1:13.1 | And it's deep. |
1:14.3 | So humans aren't exploring down there very often. |
1:17.7 | No. |
1:18.3 | However, during World War II, |
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