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“A long, ridged plastic tube, like a vacuum cleaner pipe, known as the slurp gun...”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sight. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Molluscs aren’t mathematicians.”
― Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

“The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep, quite simply, makes this planet habitable.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss