This is a little bit of hatches sealed, awaiting permission to watch on your word.

This is Albin dive 5268.

Victoria Orphan is a Caltech professor and a deep sea explorer, which means that a few times a year, if she's lucky, she climbs down a ladder into a seven-foot-wide titanium globe

that serves as the cockpit of the submersible alvin.

And then, with a pilot and another scientist,

she sinks miles into the sea.

Can't wait to see what the seafloor looks like here.

To places no human has ever been.

To collect creatures no one has ever known.

To study some of the most alien ecosystems on Earth.

When I mentioned to other scientists that I was interviewing oceanographer Victoria Orphan, They all basically said the same thing. Oh yeah, she's a badass. So I had this idea in my mind of what to expect. I've interviewed a number of explorers, and I found that it is a profession that sometimes attracts big personalities. People who seem energized to risk life

in limb to find something new. People who are always ready to tell you a swashbuckling tail,

you know, exaggerated or not. And so when I sat down for my first interview with Victoria,

I was a little surprised.

What is your personal relationship to risk? I'm definitely not a risk taker. I am not somebody who

wants to, you know, jumps at the chance of bungee jumping or paragliding or any of those sort of like

adrenaline junkie sports.

No, no thanks.

I wasn't getting a hint of swagger.

It would scare the pants off of me.

And the more I talked to Victoria, the more it became clear that her reputation for badassery

was definitely not thanks to self-promotion.

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