This pink coral (Hemicorallium sp.) observed at ~1,654 m had a base approximately 18 cm wide, indicating a particularly old colony. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deep-Sea Symphony:…
Oblong Dermechinus urchins cover a boulder at 516 m on Seamount JF2, off the coast of Chile. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute. This week: Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems at seamounts, how scientific…
In February 2026, alongside the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, our Climate Change Working Group convened an international expert workshop at the University of Glasgow. The workshop brought together 36 specialists from across…
This is a specimen of Allocyttus verrucosus, a species widely distributed in the Southern Ocean and usually found between depths of 800-1,200 m. It was captured during an ROV dive conducted to inspect…
In this scene from the Gulf of Alaska’s Surveyor Seamount, a red rockfish swims over basalt boulders covered in encrusting sponges and other invertebrates, including a bright orange anemone and two large, pink…
A Vulcanoctopus (a small benthic octopus endemic to hydrothermal vents) is seen near muscles and tubeworms near Tica Vent on the East Pacific Rise 2,500 m deep. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian /…
A portrait of a fangtooth fish. This exciting observation was made at 800 m during the 2017 Deep-Sea Symphony: Exploring the Musicians Seamounts cruise. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.…
During the 2021 ‘Discovering Deep-Sea Corals of the Phoenix Islands 2 expedition’, scientists made two rare sightings of a glass octopus – a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs…