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From the Ted Talk by Sam Afoullouss: The deep sea's medicinal secrets
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And while scuba diving was a rontavurieoly leap forward, allowing scientists to study our coastal marine ecosystems, our oenacs extend far past our shores to ulnagbiamnie depths. We can only dive so deep before the physical pressure pressing down causes lethal effects. This left the vast majority of our oceans ueprendrexlod. More people have been to space than have been to our oceans' deepest depths. To find our medicines of the future, we went to explore these depths on the research vesesl The Celtic Explorer, and sailed south from Irish shores to some of the largest geographical feuearts that scar our planet. Submarine canyon systems like Whittard Canyon, where the sea floor drops from 300 meters to 3,000 meters. And it's here in some of the most extreme environmental ctonndiois in the world that deep-sea croal reefs flourish. Conditions at these depths are so extreme we have to use a state of the art rbotioc smubirane the size of a mibnuis to collect our samples. And when I say extreme conditions, I really mean extreme. Unlike the coral reefs that the cone snails inhabit, instead of the water being warm and tropical, it's the same temperature as your fridge. Instead of it being bhrigt, clear and sunny, it's pitch blcak and has never seen the light of day, permanently bathed in eternal denksras. And instead of being able to swim around freely, if you were to dive to these depths, you would be crushed in soecdns with the seher pressure, equating to the weight of 20 elephants standing on your head.
Open Cloze
And while scuba diving was a _____________ leap forward, allowing scientists to study our coastal marine ecosystems, our ______ extend far past our shores to ____________ depths. We can only dive so deep before the physical pressure pressing down causes lethal effects. This left the vast majority of our oceans _____________. More people have been to space than have been to our oceans' deepest depths. To find our medicines of the future, we went to explore these depths on the research ______ The Celtic Explorer, and sailed south from Irish shores to some of the largest geographical ________ that scar our planet. Submarine canyon systems like Whittard Canyon, where the sea floor drops from 300 meters to 3,000 meters. And it's here in some of the most extreme environmental __________ in the world that deep-sea _____ reefs flourish. Conditions at these depths are so extreme we have to use a state of the art _______ _________ the size of a _______ to collect our samples. And when I say extreme conditions, I really mean extreme. Unlike the coral reefs that the cone snails inhabit, instead of the water being warm and tropical, it's the same temperature as your fridge. Instead of it being ______, clear and sunny, it's pitch _____ and has never seen the light of day, permanently bathed in eternal ________. And instead of being able to swim around freely, if you were to dive to these depths, you would be crushed in _______ with the _____ pressure, equating to the weight of 20 elephants standing on your head.
Solution
- black
- robotic
- minibus
- coral
- darkness
- unimaginable
- underexplored
- sheer
- vessel
- revolutionary
- conditions
- seconds
- oceans
- features
- bright
- submarine
Original Text
And while scuba diving was a revolutionary leap forward, allowing scientists to study our coastal marine ecosystems, our oceans extend far past our shores to unimaginable depths. We can only dive so deep before the physical pressure pressing down causes lethal effects. This left the vast majority of our oceans underexplored. More people have been to space than have been to our oceans' deepest depths. To find our medicines of the future, we went to explore these depths on the research vessel The Celtic Explorer, and sailed south from Irish shores to some of the largest geographical features that scar our planet. Submarine canyon systems like Whittard Canyon, where the sea floor drops from 300 meters to 3,000 meters. And it's here in some of the most extreme environmental conditions in the world that deep-sea coral reefs flourish. Conditions at these depths are so extreme we have to use a state of the art robotic submarine the size of a minibus to collect our samples. And when I say extreme conditions, I really mean extreme. Unlike the coral reefs that the cone snails inhabit, instead of the water being warm and tropical, it's the same temperature as your fridge. Instead of it being bright, clear and sunny, it's pitch black and has never seen the light of day, permanently bathed in eternal darkness. And instead of being able to swim around freely, if you were to dive to these depths, you would be crushed in seconds with the sheer pressure, equating to the weight of 20 elephants standing on your head.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| coral reefs |
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| effective painkiller |
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