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Its multifaceted nature is also visible in scientific research on the deep sea. While traditional relevance narratives in the field of deep sea research centred around fundamental knowledge creation, calls for doing societally relevant research are intensifying. The field is currently in transition regarding its understanding of societally relevant research, as it has been criticised for failing to provide narratives that adequately demonstrate its societal relevance and the corresponding disconnect between its epistemic foci and the concerns of researchers, industry, and society more broadly. This transition is reverberating throughout ocean research institutions, prompting deep sea researchers to reconsider and re-articulate the relevance and applicability of their work. This article examines how deep sea researchers from two European ocean research institutes articulate the societal relevance of their work within their unique epistemic environments. 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