071: The Norwegian Deep with Dr. Anne Helene Tandberg

October 2nd, 2026

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Welcome back to the Deep-Sea Podcast, your punk take on all things deep sea!

Alan is living day 56 on a boat, and feeling great about 50 landers, and 900 hours of footage taken on a mystery seamount near the Western Sahara. After leaving a trail of podcast stickers at Edinburgh bars, and being run off a trip to the Seamount Gloria by terrible weather, his investigatory trip to an as of yet unnamed seamount has yielded two potentially special scientific finds.

Thom had a great time at a conference in Shanghai where he enjoyed the historical atmosphere and also met Dmitry Pitruk, a snailfish hero! He then returned to NZ just in time for a sausage sizzle fundraiser, where he cooked over 300 sausages in 45 minutes. Thom has also submitted the podcast for several awards, and really enjoyed the results of asking on the Discord for testimonials.

Listen to the epic waffle as they chat about lives ruined by the podcast, brine pool pickles, deep-sea fish biscuits, and bizarre Ai messages on our website.

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"All Hail the Sausage" -Alan

Our Guest This Month:

Marie Tharp: First Seafloor Map

This month we speak with Anne Helene Tandberg, a researcher from the University Museum of Bergen who specializes in amphipods. She has described several species including Exitomelita sigynae (an amphipod named for Loki's wife in Norse mythology) which lives on hydrothermal vents.

In this deep-sea science, art, and museum collections episode Thom and Meghan join Anne Helene for a theater of the mind journey through the University Museum of Bergen Deep-Sea exhibit curated by Anne Helene.

Join us for historical deep-sea artifacts, loads of info on Marie Tharp- a pioneering female geologist and oceanographer, a journey from Norway to Greenland underwater, the magic of a well planned carpet, and why the whales in Bergen are too short.

It's a girl power episode filled with fascinating museum tidbits, Anne Helene personal favorite exhibit item, potential gill symbionts, and a painted fish mystery!

Original bottles of deep-sea water

Original HUGIN AUV shell

Painted fish- beautifully colored while still in Formulin - a technique lost to time

Dried and painted corals Corals including Paragorgia Arborea and Primnoa Pacifica

www4.uib.no/en/university-museum/exhibitions-and-experiences/the-whale-hall

www4.uib.no/en/university-museum/exhibitions-and-experiences/the-unknown-land-the-deep-sea

Marie Tharp Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame:

Appearances and Collaborations:

Thom was a guest on the new Green Frequency Podcast:

Green Frequency

What happens behind the exhibits at a natural history museum? At Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand, millions of specimens form a scientific record stretching across species, ecosystems, and generations. In this episode of Green Frequency, Clark is joined by deep-sea researcher and curator of fishes Dr. Thom Linley to explore what those collections are actually for.

The Unusual Ocean: Who Lives in the Deep? by Meghan Jones is now available for purchase!

Abyssal Grenadier Coloring Page — studio mbj

The Unsual Ocean: Who Lives in the Deep? Is now released and available for purchase. Take your favorite kiddo from 1,000m to 11,000m visiting 7 deep-sea habitats and 19 organisms along the way.

This non-fiction children's science book is filled with fascinating facts, wonder inducing illustrations and every section has at least one quote from a real deep-sea researcher.

Written by Meghan for independent readers ages 8-12, fact-checked by Dr. Thom (one of our favorite deep-sea experts), and enjoyable by everyone, ask your local bookstore to stock this title today!

The Unusual Ocean: Who Lives in the Deep? Book — studio mbjBased on current scientific observations and studies, this book demonstrates that reality can be more fascinating than the wildest imagination all while traveling from the shore to the deepest of ocean trenches.

Other Creators We Love: How Deep Is Your Love? Documentary

This month Thom had the immense pleasure of watching How Deep Is Your Love? a documentary film written and directed by Eleanor Mortimer, and produced by Jacob Thomas.

This film follows a science team as they investigate the deep sea to collect and name undiscovered species. All the while the threat of deep-sea mining is on the horizon, creating a sense of urgency and desire to protect this unseen habitat.

Make sure to check their website for screenings to find where and when you can also enjoy this fantastic film!

How Deep is Your LoveFeature Documentary Directed by Eleanor Mortimer. Presented by Sandbox Films in Association with BFI Doc Society Fund. With deep-sea mining looming, biologists race to collect and name the undiscovered species of the abyss, the last wilderness on earth.

How Deep Is Your Love Review: A Resonant Dive into Undersea Mining - POV MagazineHow Deep Is Your Love review: documentary tracks an exploration designed to determine the impact of resource extraction from the ocean floor.

What's happening in our Deep-Sea Discord Community:

Japanese Game Show Anglerfish trap
Thom leads a cult (another cult)
Mountain hiking trips to British Columbia
More fab processing photos from Thom at the Museum
Electroshock adventures
Alan chimed in from sea with new photos
New funnel web spider discoveries
Far infrared lights arts and crafts day/disco party
Humanist Book Club of Scotland visit
Flattest of the Flat Boiz flounder for discord attention
Incredible Septopus ceramics fresh from the kiln

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Some of our Featured News Articles:

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversityBut their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

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Cradle of life? Why deep-sea vents might not be the answerFor decades people have marvelled at images of the ethereal, tower-like chimneys of hydrothermal vent fields in the deep ocean, far beyond scuba-diving depths

Rethinking the origin of life at seafloor hydrothermal vents | PNASAlkaline vents have dominated a class of hypotheses for the origins of life since their discovery a quarter of century ago, but advances in underst...

MBARI researchers film chance encounter with a rare deep-sea bigfin squid • MBARIDuring a recent expedition to study seamounts offshore of Central California, MBARI scientists and NOAA collaborators encountered the rarely seen deep-sea bigfin squid (Magnapinna sp.). This exciting encounter was only MBARI’s second sighting of Magnapinna and the first confirmed live observation of this remarkable squid in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean.

“Probably ate it headfirst." Here's what scientists found inside this deep-sea fish’s bulging belly | Discover WildlifeResearchers at the Natural History Museum wanted to solve the intriguing mystery of what was inside this rare fish’s enormous stomach without cutting it open – here’s how they did it.

Tiny krill are turning up in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Scientists want to know whyAntarctic krill serve as a crucial food source for penguins, seals, and whales. They recycle nutrients used by algae. Now researchers say they've found krill in a surprising place: hydrothermal vents.

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