Ex-Nanopore employee here. One interesting thing we heard about internally was that OceanX[0] has one of our GridION[1] devices (slightly larger, and built-in compute) that they were using to track whales in the ocean by sequencing DNA found in seawater. Really cool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanX

[1] https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/gridion

Do you have links to these youtubers? Sounds interesting