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Information regarding the dye being used for the sponge experiment for curious folks. How do I get a job where my sole responsibility is to make sure sponges are happy? @greenpeace.org dive 9 10 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Dye experiment to show how sponges work. They're the filters of the sea; crucial to ocean health. Fantastic animals! @greenpeace.org dive 10 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

They turned the lights off and caught the bioluminescence on a Umbellula. Cool! @greenpeace.org dive 9 part 3 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Umbellula @greenpeace.org dive 9 part 3 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

I can't tell which fish this is from the back @greenpeace.org dive 9 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Cusk or snailfish? @greenpeace.org dive 9 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Cool! That's the 1st time I've seen a pig patch of sponges in that kind of density. Would you call that a poof of sponges? @greenpeace.org dive 9 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Lobate ctenophore @greenpeace.org dive 9 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Holy shit look at that egg mass! At least I think thise are eggs. Or pyrosome? 🦀 having a buffet with whatever it is! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Tiny shark bonks a crinoid and sent it swimming. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Oh my word it is so tiny! 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Does this crab (chaceon?) have eggs or a parasitic barnacle? This crab has been through some things. 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Epic antenna action on these shrimps. Must be a shrimp conference happening. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Playing with mud @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Shark friend. They finally made it to the top of the seamount. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Check out the little eggs in this Chrysogorgia! I've seen eggs in these before but not any like this. Wonder who left them? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Is this dead coral base covered in zoanthids and hydroids? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Snailfish @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Chimaera @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Fantastic coral diversity on this seamount. They're about 600m from the top of it still. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Wow look at how vibrant this sea star is eating this bamboo coral! @echinoblog.bsky.social is that Evoplosoma? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Benthic siphonophore next to a bamboo and Evoplosoma(?) eating the coral @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

My fave, Iridigorgia! Has some long legged critters in there, too. Maybe some isopods but I can't tell. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Opisthoteuthis or grimpo? I can't tell when they splat like that @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 2 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Bassozetus? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Slurping the snot. It's so gross. I love it @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Solitary hydroid @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Black coral (Alternapathes?) Getting blown by current and making a circle around it. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Inopiniteuthis. Love the ripples at the end @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Cirrothauma? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Poralia @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Stephanomia? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Crinoid said nuh-uh @greenpeace.org dive 6 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Gonatus maybe? @greenpeace.org dive 6 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Skate @greenpeace.org dive 6 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Benthic ctenophore @greenpeace.org dive 6 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Bathysaurus mollis @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Cirrothauma maybe @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Snailfish @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Another munnopsid with its emotional support sargassum @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Munidopsis on a decent sized sponge with sargassum around it. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Munnopsid (breast-stroke) isopod carrying sargassum. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Not a sea critter, though I guess you could call it pycnogonid shaped. Got a ton of rain today & this wolf spider managed to get stuck in the watering can. I set it free.

Squid squad is thinking Neoteuthis for this one @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Before that fish rendered me speechless they saw this octopus. Japetella or Bolitaena. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

My fish prson says this is the first Winteria in situ! I have waited 11 yrs to see a barreleye on a dive. It's my top bucket list fish. Worth every second! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Whoa who is this fella? Some sort of barreleye? @jethroreading32.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Just a small sample.of the abundant life down here. Life in the ocean dies without area on the seafloor like this. @greenpeace.org dive 5 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Little squid @greenpeace.org dive 5 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

@andyantarctica.bsky.social are those longer white leg looking things moving toward the front on this pycnogonid ovigers? @greenpeace.org dive 5 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Lol the swimming bivalve on lower right @greenpeace.org dive 5 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Fantastic mirror pool under a flange on an active hydrothermal chimney during @greenpeace.org dive 4 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

@greenpeace.org filmed a Cirroteuthis next a pumping vent during Dive 4 today! That's the 1st time I've seen an octo swimming around a chimney venting. #DeepArctic #MarineLife

Benthic siphonophore @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 923 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Another Cirrothauma. Fantastic angle! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 923 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Cirrothauma! Love the way they open their skirt when they swim @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 923 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Large Macrourid @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 923 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Bamboo coral @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 923 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Whoa that's neat. I have no idea what that red is. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 923 #Doldrums #MarineLife