The Deep-Sea Podcast

Our short and to the point PRESSURISED version of episode 25. If you don't have time for the full episode and want to get right to the science without any of our waffle, this is the place to be!

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Our short and to the point PRESSURISED version of episode 24. If you don't have time for the full episode and want to get right to the science without any of our waffle, this is the place to be!

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https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/025-biolum

Sorry that this episode isn’t the perfectly polished jewel that this show usually is. Thom’s family got a visit from both COVID and chickenpox so t…

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/024-pelagic

We have a confession to make. We talk a big game about how we are busting myths, tackling deep-sea tropes and showing the deep ocean as it really …

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/023-deep-aquaria

Can we safely bring deep-sea organisms to the surface and keep them alive? Certain species, such as the giant isopods and giant Japanese spid…

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/022-dive-streaming

One of the most exciting parts of our job is going to places that no one has ever been before and seeing things that no one has ever seen. …

We have often talked about how difficult it is the get data from the deep sea… but would you believe that the bottleneck to our understanding of the deep ocean, at least as far as visual data, is pro…

It’s February, the month of love and there’s love in the deep ocean too. We talk reproductive strategies in the deep sea with Professor Craig Young, Dr Autun Purser and Dr Mike Vecchione. How do you …

As promised in the Christmas special, we call the ‘squid-phone’ – a special line used by scientists globally when they seem something strange and squiddy. On the other end of that line is Mike Vecchi…

We like to let our hair down a little for the Christmas episode and do something a little different. We recorded video this episode! You can find the video version of this podcast on our YouTube page…

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/018-sound

We think of the deep sea as an eerily quiet and spooky place but that isn’t completely true, animal communication, seismic activity, human noise and…

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/017-going-to-sea

We love going to sea, it is probably the best part of the job. That’s where most of our adventures happen, that’s where most of the exciting …

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/016-biodiscovery

We are in desperate need for new bioactive compounds. Superbugs are on the rise as evolution finds a way of thwarting our antibiotics. We are…

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/015-space-pt2

We hunker down behind the blast doors and quickly record part 2 of our space episode before 426 manages to get through. That’ll make more sense on…

Sorry for the lateness of the episode, we were rather ambitious with this one. Thom and Alan get access to a sound stage and get to actually record the podcast in the same room for the first time. In…

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/013-submarine-special

Thom thought he had the podcast to himself, but it turns out the professor is back after 88 days at sea. It’s time for our submarine, or…

Natural history collections, huge archives of carefully curated specimens, are an invaluable tool for the scientific community. They are also a place where the public get to interact with active rese…

Alan is stranded out in the Pacific and Thom is left to present a show on genetics, a topic so confusing to him it may as well be magic. Luckily, friends of the show are on hand. Dr Heather Ritchie i…

Tales of monsters persist to this day and there’s no better place to hide them than in the deep sea. We are joined by paleontology student and cryptozoology blogger Tyler Greenfield to look at some o…

We are both biologists and a little bias toward the deep-sea critters, but the deep ocean contains a wealth of geological discoveries, after all, it is the geology which creates the deep sea.

We catc…