As Matthew just wrote me excitedly:
The Okeanos mission is at 2000 m below the Pacific. Have it on your computer in a window – amazing marine biology!
Indeed it is–all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures! Click on the screenshot below to go there, and keep it open as Matthew suggests (click on the arrow when you get to the site):
Guess what the creatures above are (yes, they’re animals):
From the website:
From February 25 to March 18, scientists will continue 2015 Hohonu Moana expedition efforts to explore deep-water habitats in and around Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The expedition will include work on seamounts in the Mid-Pacific Mountains while en route to port in Kwajalein.
some type of siphonophore?
Epic live feed.
Yes, and thanks!
I think I just saw a white bunny. May have been mistaken.
As Neil suggested, maybe siphonophores. Another possibility are tunicates. The still pix is a bit distorted.
Psychedelic mushrooms, clearly.
I just saw a really cool fish shaped like a dart…talk about an adaptive feat at 6,000+ feet. Though maybe they’re working their way up the ridge now and it isn’t so deep. There should be a depth gauge…maybe there is and I missed it.
If you go to Camera 2 it shows depth chart and other details of dive as well as the camera 1 video. At 4:30 PM PST they are still at 1900 meters depth I believe.
Phylum Coelenterata?
The recorded videos at the bottom of the page are amazing too.
Lots of activity right now too! (7:25pm EST)
Sub
Crinoid or other echinoderm? Shot in the dark.