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At NW Eifuku, we’re planning to do at least three back-to-back Jason dives, and we’re going to use the elevator mooring to

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send samplers down to the seafloor and get them back while Jason stays and works.

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It’s very interesting because it’s got lots of different little environments.

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Because it’s got iron bacteria, why wouldn’t we be interested in NW Eifuku?

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So there’s lots of iron mats here and I’m trying to look at the structure and function iron-oxidizing bacteria.

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Bacteria are the primary producers and then everything is built off of animals that graze the bacteria.

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I saw a lot of animals that I’ve never seen before.

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So there’s quite a few different types of animals down there.

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There’s a few species of shrimp, and there’s mussels and crabs and squat lobsters.

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There’s some really cool scale worms. So you see things and they look like giant pill bugs. They’re really cool.

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It's got beds that go on forever, covered in mussels. Lots of different little pockets.

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It’s one of my favorite volcanoes along here.