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Oliver Steeds

Oliver Steeds

Journalist

Jul 14, 2026

44:05
You know, there must be that you don't just stand in the operations room going, "Oh, yeah, another species, tick, another species, tick." What are the moments from your career in this, this career of yours where you've thought, "Bloody hell, we've, we've found this? That's incredible"?
44:18
Hmm.
44:19
Well, um, every day.
44:20
I mean, I get a feed on lots of new species we find every day.
44:24
A couple of days ago, we announced the, um, the carnivorous death ball sponges around Halloween.
44:28
That was pretty cool.
44:29
Um, filming the first colossal squid, which we did on expedition South Sandwich Islands a few months ago with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

15 MINS LATER

59:40
But, I mean, what is the future of ocean exploration? Where are we headed with all this next ten, twenty-five, fifty years?

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