To some, the deep sea is a thing of serenity and beauty, to others a terrifying vast plain fueled by a fear of the unknown. A complicated ecosystem. Full of monsters and mystery – dangerous but ethereal.

Producer Tiff Gardiner spoke to Dr. Todd Bond a deep-sea marine ecologist and research fellow at the University of Western Australia, who shares his expertise and expeditions in Japanese trenches and Australian marine parks. From underwater earthquakes to breaking the world record for deepest fish ever recorded, to why we might fear the deep.

With the beauty and the terror of the deep-sea, here’s why our fears should be fascination.