For scientists, the deep ocean remains one of the unexplored frontiers of the planet, 對於科學家而言，深海仍是地球上一大未經探索的邊疆地帶。
but as technology develops, allowing experts to venture deeper in our oceans, 不過，隨著科技愈來愈發達，專家也愈來愈能夠深入海裡，
they've uncovered life that looks more like sci-fi than anything known elsewhere in nature. 於是發現了許多彷彿科幻片裡頭的生物，比起自然界其他地區的任何生物都還要令人驚異。
And this week on EcoSolutions, we speak to a conservationist 在本週的《生態解決方案》，我們訪問了一位保育人士，
who has documented strange deep sea creatures in a book called The Deep. 她在《深海奇珍》這本書裡記錄了許多奇特的深海生物。
The inspiration behind the book The Deep that I wrote is really clear, 'cause it was just, it happened on one day, 激發我寫作《深海奇珍》這本書的靈感很明確，有一天突然閃現在我的腦海裡。
and that was when I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, 那天我去參觀加州的蒙特瑞灣水族館。
and it...which, to my standards, [is] the most beautiful aquarium in the world. 在我眼中，那裡是全世界最美麗的水族館。
My life just completely changed afterwards. 我的人生從此就完全改變了。
I flew back, and all I could see were images of these creatures on my mind, 我搭飛機回家，滿腦子都是那些生物的影像，
and I just wanted to go home and tell everyone, tell the whole world! 只想回家告訴所有人，告訴全世界！
I felt like we had been looking for alien life on other planets for so long, and I felt we were wrong, you know. 我覺得我們長久以來都在找尋其他星球上的外星生物，但我認為我們都錯了。
Alien life is exactly here. It's on this planet, but it's just in the deep ocean. 外星生物就在這裡，就在這顆星球上，只不過是存在於深海中。
So, I felt I needed to share my excitement and the wonder. 所以，我覺得我必須和別人分享我興奮與讚嘆的心情。
I remember the most exciting part of making the book was opening my email in the morning. 我記得製作這本書最令人興奮的部分，就是每天早上查看電子郵件的時候。
Every morning I was like jumping out of bed like I have never jumped out of bed before 每天早上我都迫不及待要跳下床，
because I just wanted to rush to my email. 因為我只想趕快衝去查看郵件。
And basically every night it was somebody sending some just stunning creature. 基本上，每天晚上都會有人寄些令人驚嘆的生物圖片。
Some of them had no names, you know, because they had never been caught. 有些生物沒有名稱，因為從來不曾被抓過。
I must say I've got a soft point [spot] for invertebrates -- you know, so, animals without a backbone, 我必須說我非常喜愛無脊椎動物，
you know, deep sea finned octopus, those that we call Dumbo octopuses. 例如有鰭的深海章魚，我們稱之為小飛象章魚。
And they're pink or orangey, and they've got big fins, but they look like big ears, 這種章魚呈粉紅色或橘色，有很大的鰭，看起來就像大耳朵一樣，
so that's why we call them Dumbos. 所以我們才把牠們叫做小飛象。
So, when you go down with the submersible, you go through the water column, 你一旦搭著潛水小艇潛入水底，穿越水層，
and if you turn your lights off...you disturb all these animals, right, and so they all emit light. 而且你只要把燈光關掉……因為你驚動了這些動物，所以牠們全都會發出光芒。
So, you know, you look through the porthole, and it's much better than watching the sky. 因此，你從舷窗望出去，比仰望天空還要漂亮，
You know, it's much better 'cause there's so much going on. It's not static at all. 因為海裡充滿了活動，完全不是靜態的。
Some light is just very, very instantaneous, sort of clicks or flashes, 有些光源稍縱即逝，一閃即滅，
and others is [are] just continuous, sort of strings of light that disappear in the distance. 有些則是持續不斷地發光，一整條光芒消失於遠處。
Yeah, it's spectacular, spectacular. 沒錯，實在太壯觀，太壯觀了。
2010 is the year for biodiversity, and conservationists, 二○一○年是生物多樣性年。
as the public, the public is aware already, is [are] really worried about the deep ocean's fate, 正如民眾已經察覺的，保育人士非常擔心深海的命運，
because the destruction that we're doing with, you know, with deep sea bottom trawling, fishing these fish, 因為深海底拖網漁業和各種捕魚活動所造成的破壞，
is much faster and at a much larger scale than any other destruction that's ever occurred on this planet. 比地球上其他各種破壞行為都速度更快也規模更大。
They go across the sea floor and they just take everything, 底拖網刮過海底，把一切都撈了起來，
so it's [a] very indiscriminant way of fishing, very unselective and very destructive. 是一種毫無區別而且深具破壞力的捕魚方式。
But you have to think of the deep ocean as something that is vanishing, 想想看，深海正在消失當中，成了市場的犧牲品。
and only for the markets, the profit of catching a few fish that end up on our plate. 人類破壞深海環境，就只是為了抓幾條魚滿足口腹之慾而已。