Rather, they were forced to return when the submarine's carbon dioxide scrubber filled up, and couldn't filter out anymore more of their exhaled breath. Although, Thurston did admit that he once had a cup of tea before a deep sea dive, and "tempted fate." Some might think needing to use the bathroom would be the limiting factor, but it's not. Thurston descended around 75 times, spending an average of eight hours in the deep sea submersible with a pilot and scientist. Whenever you're standing on a boat, said Thurston, "just a kilometer beneath your feet are things humans have never seen." Here, coming across bizarre creatures, like a curious squid or two, is normal. The second video, below, shows marine photographer Gavin Thurston descending into the lightless deep sea. ![]() "In the water, a six-foot animal to them looks like a leopard seal, so they’re not keen on hanging around." Thousands of feet under the sea "The penguins don’t want to come near you," he said. Seals were curious about Miller's dark, camera-wielding presence in the water, and swam towards him for a closer inspection. "They won’t perceive you as a threat and carry on with their lives," he said. Miller treads gently in the water, attempting to be as benign as possible. Wildlife, like penguins and seals, are abundant in these remote waters. ![]() "Generally you just get too cold," said Miller, who wears at least four thermal layers under his dry suit. But it's not because Miller ran out of air. In such frigid waters, this dive lasted about an hour. Looking down into the black depths beside the wall of ice, "I do remember feeling quite a strong sense of vertigo," said Miller. "We had to choose the iceberg carefully," said Miller, in an interview, noting that the massive, creaking chunks of ice catch the wind and go sailing. In one of the videos, seen above, Hugh Miller dives down 75 feet beside an Antarctic iceberg, in a region off the continental arm that extends towards South America. Two new videos from OceanX Media and BBC Earth's Our Blue Planet initiative detail how photographers Gavin Thurston and Hugh Miller capture little-seen natural beauty in these uncharted realms. The organization brought its vessel, the Alucia, to remote ocean worlds to shoot footage for the BBC's Blue Planet II series. The aim is to bring footage of uncharted regions back up to the surface, for us land-dwellers to see and understand. ![]() OceanX, launched June 5, however, has plans to change this by taking its exploration vessel and deep sea submersibles to never-visited places. Gavin Thurston descending in a submersible.
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