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…
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…
A scene of biodiversity includes fish, sea stars, sponges, and corals, documented at the head of a canyon off the coast of Argentina. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute. This week: The…