The novel “Vitals” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 2002.

Hal Cousins ​​is a scientist who is working on biotechnology related to longevity. To find out how to overcome aging he must make an expedition into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. He finds funding from a billionaire interested in living for thousands of years and in the course of an expeditionary in the sea he finds the creatures that he thinks have the right genes to find the secrets of longevity.