A Pisces submersible moves along the sheer cliff-face at Jarvis Island, as photographed by the other Pisces submersible.
Sheer Cliff-face
Photograph by Terry Kerby or Max Cremer, courtesy of the Hawaiʻi Undersea Research Laboratory. Download larger version (jpg, 1.4 MB).

A Pisces submersible moves along the sheer cliff-face at Jarvis Island, as photographed by the other Pisces submersible. Extraordinarily abundant plankton and micronekton swarmed off of ridges of the cliff where strong currents swept by. Dense lines of deepwater coral fans, to the right of the submersible, also occurred at these ridges.

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