I'm jealous of anyone who gets to "deploy scientific equipment".
That all sounds indescribably cool, what an amazing adventure.
Speaking of you and submarines, I wondered to myself if you were acquainted with Chris Grech from MBARI. He was featured on NPR in a piece about the exploration of the wreck of the USS Macon (a derrigible that had to ditch in the ocean in 1935) and I heard "Monterey Bay Aquarium" and thought of you.