Videos (QuickTime required.)

Two species of shrimp at the hydrothermal vents at NW Rota 1 volcano. (QuickTime, 1.9 Mb)

Collecting an unusual species of shrimp found at the hydrothermal vent. (QuickTime, 1.5 Mb)

May 15
Scientists investigate Manning Seamount marine life collected from the Hercules biobox and basalt block.

May 12
Assorted images from the slopes of Bear Seamount.

May 11
See a sea star prey upon bamboo coral. (QuickTime, 1.1 Mb)

May 11
Basalt rocks covered in sea stars, crinoids, brisingid sea stars, sponges, and corals. (QuickTime, 1 Mb)

August 20
A few swarms of crabs, scavenging on some dead fish. (Quicktime, 1.6 Mb.)

August 20
Spider crabs, Macroregonia macrochira, collected at 2,900 m depth on Pratt Seamount. (Quicktime, 1.8 Mb.)

August 19
See how a snail fish (family Liparidae) was collected with the Alvin’s suction gun. (Quicktime,928 Kb.)

August 12
View a slide show of some of the sponges of the Alaska Seamounts.

August 10
A scarlet king crab from the genus Lithodes, which means "rock-shaped," is dissected in the lab. (QuickTime, 2.3 Mb)

August 11
A Mastigoteuthis squid, approximately six ft in length over 1,600 ft below the surface. (Quicktime, 316 Kb.)

August 10
Video shot over 1,700 ft down in the Gulf of Mexico, shows the fluorescence of a benthic sea spider. (QuickTime, 936 Kb)

August 26
A huge sea anemone retrieved during the submersible dive. (Quicktime, 1 Mb.)

August 26
A red gerion crab running along the sandy bottom. (Quicktime, 3.3 Mb.)

August 26
A bathyscaphoid squid swimming. (QuickTime, 1.1 Mb)

August 26
A Venus Fly Trap sea anemone. (QuickTime, 1.2 Mb)

August 25
A giant red shrimp hovers just above the sea floor. (QuickTime, 1.2 Mb)

Slideshow of benthic invertebrates from the Charleston Bump. (QuickTime, 636 Kb)

Various sponges and octocorals collected during the "Deep Sea Medicines 2003 Expedition."

Crinoid swimming.

Squid swim.

collecting a crab sample.

Video of a sponge being collected. QuickTime, 1.2 Mb)

Invertebrate slideshow.

Jellyfish encounter.

Invertebrate slideshow.

Organisms that live in the ice.

ROV sampling and a jellyfish swim.

Astoria Canyon Sights (QuickTime, 2.6MB)

Alvinocarid shrimp (QuickTime, 600 K)

Octopi (QuickTime, 600 K)

Images

Sponges (Phylum Porifera)

May 23
Beautiful white sponge with purple crinoids on Retriever Seamount. (HR)

Sponge encrusted rock collected at the Blake Ridge.

A "chimney" sponge and a fan-like sponge with associated sediment pile.

A "chimney" sponge may reveal new symbioses not previously witnessed. (HR)

Glass sponge, found at a depth of more than 1500 feet.

A Clathria sponge. (HR)

The bright-orange Forcepia sponge. (HR)

An unexpected finds during the first dive, Acarnus sp. (HR)

Recovered on the second dive a sponge from the Verongida family. (HR)

The sponge Forcepia is the source of the lasonolides. (HR)

Marine sponges collected during a single ROV dive at the West Flower Garden. Bank (HR)

A piece of basalt collected at 162’ (HR)

Sponge and anemone

Horn-shaped vase sponges

A bizarre elephant sponge

Skeleton shrimp.

Gooseneck barnacles.

A hexactinellid sponge that anchors itself in the sediment with elongate spicules

White cup sponges.

A very large hexactinellid sponge

The Venus flower basket sponge.

Microscopic spicules from Gorgonacea sp. of sponge.

Microscopic spicules from a pachastrellid sponge.

Newly-discovered species of sponge that looks like a Christmas tree.

A hard sponge

Unidentified sponge.

Deepwater lacy bryozoan.

Phakellia sp. Deepwater fan sponge.

Leiodermatium sp., a deepwater sponge.

Glass sponge with zooanthids attached.

Deep sea glass sponges retrieved at 1400 feet.

A particularly colorful sponge collected at 198 ft.

A commensal amphipod emerges from a stinking vase sponge.

The fire sponge, Tedaria ignis.

Stacie Crowe holds the stinking sponge Ircinia campana.

Variety of sponges

Unidentified sponge

Baseball mitt-shaped sponge

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Jellyfish and Sea Anemones (Phylum Cnidaria)

April 2
Purple anemone on a pumice rock along the east crater wall of West Rota volcano. (HR)

The rare and highly poisonous berried anemone of the Diaphus Bank. (HR)

Fields of white anemones along with a occasional orange gorgonians.

A deep-water anemone. (HR)

White-plumed anemone on the ocean bottom. (HR)

A flytrap anemone.

An unknown species of jellyfish.

A jellyfish. (HR)

Sea anemone.

A large grouping of deep ocean sea anemones

Bioluminescence emitted by a comb jelly

An unidentified jellyfish.

A tiny and very dangerous Portugese Man-O-War jellyfish

Porpida porpida has a small disc like body and floats freely in the water column.

A pelagic pteropod.

A juvenile Bolinopsis ctenophore.

Botrynema ellinorae.

The hydomedusae Aglantha digitale.

The ctenophore Mertensia ovum.

The midwater hydromedusae Atolla tenella.

The scyphomedusae Chrysaora melanaster.

Midwater shrimp, Hymendora glacialis.

Chrysaora jelly.

Medusae jellyfish

Jellyfish

Anemone wall

Deep sea anemone

Anemone, white coral, and a tanner crab

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Sea Stars, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Crinoids, and Sea Cucumbers (Phylum Echinodermata)

April 2
Stalked crinoid on the caldera sea floor at West Rota volcano. (HR)

May 21
Bouquet of Corallium with deep purple Trachythela octocoral, brittle stars, crinoids, and sponges. (HR)

May 19
A close look at Metallogorgia with basket star. (HR)

May 11
An asteroid sea star collected while feeding on coral. (HR)

Crinoids, a sea star, and an anemone.

Miscellaneous invertebrates from Bear seamount.

A large brisingid sea star collected from Manning Seamount.

A pencil urchin with tubeworms attached to its spines. (HR)

A colorful crinoid is just one of the interesting creatures collected.

This species of brittlestar (Astroporpa annulata) is related to basket stars and lives clinging to soft corals.

Bright orange Brittle Star.

Broken urchin, with its Aristotle’s Lantern fully exposed but intact.

A beautiful pale orange and white sea urchin.

Observing the locomotion of a brittle star.

Sea star collected for analysis back at one of the onshore laboratories.

Sea urchin collected for analysis at the onshore laboratories.

Sea urchin, collected during the JSL dive.

Pillow Star

A delicate juvenile sea star, Coronaster briareus. (HR)

A beautiful urchin, Astropyga magnifica. (HR)

Brittlestars reflect the broad diversity of organisms.

A Brittle Star aggregation in the sandy channels at Cordell Bank.

A sea star

A red sea star (Virsingia sp.).

Coelopleurus floridanus, a beautiful red sea urchin.

A pencil urchin brought up from one of the trawls.

Tiny brittlestars. (HR)

Seabeam map of Northampton Seamount.

Summary I A "flying" sea cucumber.

Microscopic urchin

Pencil urchin, brittle stars, and Lophelia coral

Sea star

Giant red brittle star

Brown-striped brittle stars

Red sea star

Sea star and whip coral

Brittle star

Rosethorn rockfish and crinoids

Crinoids and sponges

Basketstars

A featherstar and sponges

Basketstars

Sea stars

Seastar and shells

White sponge and reddish crinoids

Dover sole and pink sea urchins

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Squids, Octopi, Snails, Clams, and Mussels (Phylum Mollusca)

April 14
Conical limpets (2cm, 0.75 in) cover the rock surfaces at East Diamante. (HR)

April 11
In places at NW Eifuku, mussels are so dense they obscure the bottom. (HR)

April 11
The vent mussel Bathymodiolus. (HR)

April 11
Galatheid crabs and shrimp graze on bacterial filaments. (HR)

April 2
Limpets were seen grazing near the seeping fluids. (HR)

A large purple octopus.

Three live nautiliniellid worms in the mantle cavity of the clam..

Giant mussel.

Cross-section of a female vesicomyid clam.

Muscle in a vesicomyid foot.

Epithelium of vesicomyid clam gill covered with cilia.

Epithelium of vesicomyid clam gill covered with cilia.

Bed of adult and juvenile mussels.

Octopus, often collected and shipped to the Smithsonian for analysis.

This iridescent nudibranch looks like a creature from another planet.

Spiny oyster and conglomerate.

Large clams and mussels line the cracks between the pillow lavas.

Octopus. (HR)

A deep sea octopus

A squid found by the observers aboard the JSL

An Arrow squid measuring almost two feet long.