Alicia-Navidad-and-the-legendary-Kraken

[Image of Alicia working with scientific equipment appears with title: Alicia Navidad, Hydrochemist]

Narrator: Was there anything, I ask, she felt she didn’t get to achieve or see in her time on the ship?

[Image changes to show Alicia looking through a round window on the ship with bard drawn on the glass at the camera]

She looks a little furtive for a moment,

[Image changes to show Alicia standing on the ship’s deck with land in the background]

then confesses she’d always harboured a desire for a close encounter with the legendary Kraken, or giant squid.

[Image changes to show scientific equipment being deployed from the ship]

 ‘I didn’t want it to sink us!’ she says reassuringly,

[Image changes to show people setting up the scientific equipment then looking at computers]

‘but perhaps for just a tentacle to appear out of the deep and touch the deck and disappear again.’ I wonder how many of her colleagues share the fantasy.

[Image changes to show people standing at the stern of the ship looking into the sunset]

[Image of a book appears with the title: Southern Surveyor, Stories from on board Australia’s Ocean Research Vessel, Michael Veitch. Caption appears next to the book: Available from CSIRO Publishing and bookstores, October 2015. CSIRO logo appears below the caption]