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…
This red jellyfish was spotted while exploring the wreck of USS Yorktown during the Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition. Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue. This week: Bivalve death assemblages,…
A spiralling golden octocoral (Iridogorgia) reaches out into the moving current to catch food from the cold waters of the deep ocean (~1,950 m). Image courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute. This week: A bumper…
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Kristina Gjerde, who passed away on 26 December 2025. Kristina co-founded the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative in 2013 and has been an integral…