WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.263 --> 00:00:05.163
This is what looks like a
limestone outcrop, lots of

2
00:00:05.163 --> 00:00:10.703
fish, so many fish. These red
fish that we've been seeing

3
00:00:10.703 --> 00:00:13.543
are slime heads.

4
00:00:15.303 --> 00:00:19.603
Oh wait, I think that's a queen
snapper. So actually we're

5
00:00:19.603 --> 00:00:24.283
seeing quite an assemblage of
different fish species. Yeah,

6
00:00:24.283 --> 00:00:27.963
this is the queen snapper.
Cartucho would be the common name in

7
00:00:27.963 --> 00:00:31.963
Puerto Rico. This is one of the
commercially relevant ones.

8
00:00:31.963 --> 00:00:34.563
It's very interesting behavior
to see that it is lying on the

9
00:00:34.563 --> 00:00:40.243
seafloor like this. Pink frogmouth. This is the common name

10
00:00:40.243 --> 00:00:46.003
for this. This is within the
genus Chaunax and they are super fun. They're

11
00:00:46.003 --> 00:00:49.243
the ones who have walking fins.
They just capture your

12
00:00:49.243 --> 00:00:53.483
imagination. Ah, I love them.

13
00:00:54.123 --> 00:01:01.503
Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, shark! Oh
that is cool. So it's a sixgill

14
00:01:01.503 --> 00:01:05.583
shark. It's a male. What
else can we say about it? So a

15
00:01:05.583 --> 00:01:09.063
very widely distributed species
and a lot of these deep-sea

16
00:01:09.063 --> 00:01:12.183
sharks actually are very slow
growing and long-lived with

17
00:01:12.183 --> 00:01:15.223
very late reproduction, which
makes them particularly

18
00:01:15.223 --> 00:01:20.083
vulnerable. So many people are
afraid of sharks but they're

19
00:01:20.083 --> 00:01:24.443
really just beautiful animals.
They really are.