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You’ve found your way to Ocean Gazing where we journey underwater to discover the ocean. This episode features Chris Martens, a marine chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He does his science by living at the bottom of the ocean for up to 2 weeks at a time.
Martens explained, “It’s not at all like what I dreamed about when I was 7 or 8 years old in South Florida. I dreamed that someday I was certainly going to go out there and live in a little house under the ocean. I’m getting to do it but it’s slightly different than I was expecting.”
Martens will also reveal the answer to our last sonic stumper and we’ll hand you another one. Stay tuned!
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Piece Description
You’ve found your way to Ocean Gazing where we journey underwater to discover the ocean. This episode features Chris Martens, a marine chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He does his science by living at the bottom of the ocean for up to 2 weeks at a time.
Martens explained, “It’s not at all like what I dreamed about when I was 7 or 8 years old in South Florida. I dreamed that someday I was certainly going to go out there and live in a little house under the ocean. I’m getting to do it but it’s slightly different than I was expecting.”
Martens will also reveal the answer to our last sonic stumper and we’ll hand you another one. Stay tuned!
Broadcast History
Ocean Gazing podcast: http://coseenow.net/category/ocean/
Transcript
Ari: You’ve found your way to Ocean Gazing, the podcast where we journey underwater to
discover the ocean. My name’s Ari Daniel Shapiro. This episode features Chris Martens.
He’s a marine chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He does his
science by living at the bottom of the ocean for up to 2 weeks at a time.
Martens: It’s not at all like what I dreamed about when I was 7 or 8 years old in South
Florida. I dreamed that someday I was certainly gonna go out there and live in a little
house under the ocean. I’m getting to do it but it’s slightly different than I was expecting.
Ari: Martens will also reveal the answer to our last sonic stumper and we’ll hand you
another one. Stay tuned!
Ari: Chris Martens is concerned.
Martens: I grew up in the Florida Keys and when I was a bo...
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| Yellow Submarine | The Studio Sound Ensemble | Beatles Covered: A Tribute to Lennon & McCartney. | 2008 | 02:32 |
Additional Credits
Thank you to Richard Ziglar, Jim Locascio, Alexa Elliott, Sam Broun, Jim Yoder, Janice McDonnell and Sage Lichtenwalner. Music by Evan Sanders.
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