Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts.Download larger version (jpg, 662 KB).
This sea spider, or pycnogonid, was observed crawling up a colony of bamboo coral overgrown by yellow zoanthids during Dive 02 of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition at 2,623 meters (8,605 feet) depth.