What’s so cool about going to the bottom
of the ocean?
I’m David Eggleston, Professor of Marine
Science, in the College of Sciences, at NC State.
I grew up fishing and became scuba-certified
as a teenager.
I ended up going to Pennekamp Park, Key Largo, and diving on a coral reef.
And I realized that I wanted to do something
with marine biology.
I had always been curious about what it was
like to descend in a submarine and go through
that sort of twilight zone and now into complete
darkness.
We would cut on the floodlights, and it was
as clear as the clearest swimming pool you’ve ever been in.
These giant tubeworms, these giant mussels,
crazy organisms swimming around.
We’ve only explored less than 5% of the
deep ocean, but I’m aware of at least three
anticancer treatments and one HIV treatment
that’s come from these deep-sea areas and
there’s so many more discoveries to make.
I’m a scientist, and I uncover the mysteries
of the deep ocean, and that’s how I think
and do at NC State.
