We're ready to go.

Strap on this life fest.

We're going out in a boat.

Yeah, okay.

So I think it's better to just stabilize yourself.

So we're going to now feel the wind.

We're with scientist Manu Prakash speeding into Buzzard's Bay off of Cape Cod.

It's early in the morning and Manu is up late in the lab, but it doesn't seem to get to him.

That's it. That's the coffee.

Now we're all up. That's all we needed. We're going fishing for the ocean's

tiniest inhabitants. All right, Nets in, Bill. Which is something Manu does all over the globe.

You see the little shine. Those are diatoms, the floating diatoms. On this last trip,

we saw this really beautiful diatom.

It's Nichea, and it crawls on another diatum, this ketoceros, on its whiskers.

So it's like this diatum has moustaches, very long moustaches, and it will just crawl back and forth in it.

Like I've seen both of them in isolation a thousand times in the field.

First time I see what they do together, and the Nitya is hitching a ride.

That's the joy of this job.

You could spend a lifetime on a boat looking at stuff,

and you're still looking at new stuff every

single day. You don't run out of work. You just can't run out of work. Yeah. You can't run out

of work when your goal is to see every single creature on Earth. This is The Leap, a new series about scientists who are risking, their reputations, their careers,

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