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Welcome to the New Bedford Institute’s series of (36) on the mysteries of the sea. You may have noticed the drawing on the cover of the program for today’s presentation. It depicts (描述) a sea creature that (37) have been interested in for many years. It is said that in the 19th century a group of fishermen were surprised by seeing a huge squid (鱿鱼) that they said was as big as a house and had (38) tentacles (触角). The fishermen were frightened out of their wits (39) to reports from that time. The creature sank back into the ocean and was never seen again. Marine biologists believed that this (40) of giant squid still exits. And it comes to (41) how little we know about sea creatures.
(42) with what we know about the animals on the land, we do know that there are many more different kinds of marine species than there are land species. But we just don’t have the (43) yet to do sustained research. (44) . In fact researching in the deep oceans has been compared to flying an airplane overland throwing down a net and seeing what you get. In other words it’s very hard to picture the whole situation (45) .
Most of what is known about deep sea creatures, which as I said is actually very little, comes from ocean beds that dried up long ago. (46) . We’ll take a look at them after a while.