A hermit crab sits on top of a bed of pteropod shells at a depth of 1,204 meters (3,950 feet). This shell debris was common at the beginning of Windows to the Deep 2021 Dive 08, as we explored the bottom of a large sinkhole. We were able to use the suction sampler on remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer to collect some of the shell hash.
Hermit Crab
Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2021.
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A hermit crab sits on top of a bed of pteropod shells at a depth of 1,204 meters (3,950 feet). This shell debris was common at the beginning of Windows to the Deep 2021 Dive 08, as we explored the bottom of a large sinkhole. We were able to use the suction sampler on remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer to collect some of the shell hash.