- [Scientist 1] Yellow corals.
You wanna zoom yeah?
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, I think one of these.
- [Scientist 1] Which one? Which one? Pick one.
You've got 800.
(scientists laughing)
- [Scientist 3] The really, really bright one, up yonder.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, I'm not sure.
Do you guys want the really highlighter yellow?
Or do you want the pastel yellow?
- [Scientist 1] I think they want the pastel yellow,
to start with.
- [Scientist 3] Mellow yellow, rog.
- [Scientist 2] The colors that you see
on some of these animals is,
it doesn't serve any evolutionary advantage or disadvantage.
It's just part of their pigmentation.
- [Scientist 5] She's saying that the less bright yellow
coral fans are actually Octacorals.
- [Scientist 3] Oh.
- [Scientist 5] But the bright yellow fans
are the Innolopsesomnia coral.
- [Scientist 1] I don't know what we got coming here.
- [Scientist 3] Oh, what do we got here?
- [Scientist 5] Oh my goodness.
- [Scientist 3] Chimaera.
- [Scientist 5] Hey a Chimaera. Oh my gosh.
- [Scientist 6] Oh I don't know about that.
- [Scientist 5] So cool.
With a tiny little Halosaur or something right below it.
Can't quite make out his head.
Wow. Good angle.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah.
- [Scientist 6] Wow.
- [Scientist 3] He's doing all the beauty shots for us.
- [Scientist 5] Oh wow.
Even better.
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- [Scientist 3] Got someone else crawling on us too.
- [Scientist 2] Oh hello.
Do you want porch light on?
- [Scientist 3] Sure.
- [Scientist 1] Wait a minute.
Do we know, is that, is, no,
but it just looks like it's a head.
- [Scientist 2] I know.
- [Scientist 1] It's just it's head.
- [Scientist 2] It's like a bowl with a tail attached.
- [Scientist 1] It's not, actually inflated.
- [Scientist 1] Wow.
We've got some interesting fish on this dive.
- [Scientist 2] That's a big nose on that guy.
- [Scientist 5] Yeah Chris is confirming Halosaur.
- [Scientist 2] Halosaur, okay.
- [Scientist 5] For the lighter purple one.
- [Scientist 3] Backing away.
- [Scientist 5] They're competing for the limelight.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah.
- [Scientist 2] Wow. That is so bulbous.
(scientists laughing)
- [Scientist 1] Oh the crab.
- [Scientist 3] I just found the name of the hermit crab too.
Just a little bit ago.
It is Parapaguras.
Parapaguras.
I don't know how to say that correctly.
- [Scientist 1] Just out for a walk.
- [Scientist 3] Do a little bump down here.
One second guys.
- [Scientist 5] Oh, that's cool.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah.
Hello.
- [Scientist 5] Who's eating who?
- [Scientist 2] Who is eating you?
(woman laughing)
- [Scientist 1] I think it's just a mobile home.
(woman laughing)
- [Scientist 6] Negative. Nothing.
- [Scientist 1] That crab is wondering
what this giant yellow crab is doing in its territory.
- [Scientist 3] Right.
- [Scientist 2] It's a stare off now.
- [Scientist 5] Can you talk a little bit about why a crab might
put a Zoanthid on his back like that?
- [Scientist 2] Or maybe more why a Zoanthid
might go on a crab's back, like that?
- [Scientist 6] Or (indistinct)
- [Scientist 2] Is it beneficial in a feeding
from a feeding perspective to have access
to lots of different places?
- [Scientist 1] Maybe.
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- [Scientist 5] Look at that.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah.
- [Scientist 5] Am I seeing?
- [Scientist 6] That was an old sponge.
- [Scientist 5] Am I seeing encrusting sponge on a dead sponge?
What's that purple stuff?
- [Scientist 6] Coral.
- [Scientist 5] Is it coral?
- [Scientist 3] The, yeah, the purple might be
- [Scientist 5] Zoom in please.
- [Scientist 3] A coral.
- [Scientist 5] Wow.
Shows that even dead animals are still such a
valuable asset down here.
- [Scientist 3] Stolonifera.
- [Scientist 5] Incredible.
- [Scientist 1] Any of our animal experts joining us from shore.
- [Scientist 3] Can we hold ship position here please?
- [Scientist 1] Help me understand if this is (indistinct).
- [Scientist 3] Thank you.
- [Scientist 5] I'll get a good look at the base here too.
I know that can be helpful.
Zoom in please, Steve.
- [Scientist 1] (indistinct) I am really screwing up that name.
(woman laughing)
- [Scientist 4] Oh, now that we're looking at under the
base it looks kind of similar
to what you're talking about, Beth.
- [Scientist 1] Yeah. That's what I was,
seems like the defining characteristic of this thing.
So give us a moment please
to see if this is what we're looking for.
That might be a sample worthy.
- [Scientist 5] Steve, you wanna zoom in
right out close on the edge of it.
- [Scientist 2] Wow.
- [Scientist 1] Yeah. That's beautiful.
- [Scientist 4] That's attached to it.
The red.
- [Scientist 5] Wild.
- [Scientist 4] Interesting.
- [Scientist 3] I'll have to look that up in a minute.
I don't know.
(scientists laughing)
- [Scientist 4] We're all wondering.
- [Scientist 5] Could that be a (indistinct) Sea Star?
Maybe?
I am not a biologist, disclaimer, do not take my word
as any scientific information.
All right, come wide, please.
I'm gonna re approach it here.
- [Scientist 1] Steve is recommending that,
perhaps we take a sample of that.
- [Scientist 5] Okay.
- [Scientist 3] So the specimen we're looking at here,
picture from Musician Seamount, which is a little more
to the Southeast, somewhat similar.
I think it's worth going ahead
and taking a specimen of this.
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- [Scientist 5] Good there and we'll do 50% on the slurp please.
- [Scientist 1] All right coming up on slurp.
We're at 50%.
- [Scientist 5] Okay.
- [Scientist 3] That thing is significantly larger
than I thought it was.
- [Scientist 4] Oh wow.
Look at it, it's just coming right off.
- [Scientist 1] Wow.
- [Scientist 4] That is delicate.
- [Scientist 5] Yeah.
- [Scientist 3] That was a great recommendation.
- [Scientist 6] There it is.
- [Scientist 4] That was a great recommendation.
- [Scientist 5] Yeah, thanks Steve.
Great call.
Get a little bit more and then
make sure you got actually enough there.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah, how is it looking in the slurp jar there?
You can see it floating around in channel three.
Yep. And maybe a couple more pieces.
- [Scientist 4] Yep, got a lot more space.
- [Scientist 5] Uh oh, come on.
There we go.
Okay. Thank you, Steve.
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- [Scientist 2] Good job team.
- [Scientist 6] (indistinct)
- [Scientist 1] All right.
- [Scientist 2] All right.
We can go, when Trevor is ready, we can go ahead
and put that (indistinct) back in.
And we have a subset, a vet subset list
where there are organisms that have
let's say confusing taxonomy.
And so we're looking for those.
One of our scientists provided
us with a list of those animals.
- [Scientist 1] Whoa.
- [Scientist 3] And I'm gonna go off mic
for a moment while we confer about our dive plan.
- [Scientist 4] Look at the size of that.
- [Scientist 2] Whoa.
Wow, that's beautiful.
- [Scientist 1] I think that's similar to what we
sampled earlier.
- [Scientist 4] Mm hmm, yep.
That we slurped and it just kind of came right off.
- [Scientist 5] Same associate species on there.
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- [Scientist 5] Oh, what's up here?
Ooh. Look at this thing.
What are you?
- [Scientist 4] Hmm.
- [Scientist 3] Oh.
- [Scientist 6] It's a bunch of those baskets.
- [Scientist 3] It looks like those baskets.
- [Scientist 4] Yeah, but like they've.
- [Scientist 5] They're on a bubblegum coral.
- [Scientist 3] But they're on.
- [Scientist 5] Zoom in please.
- [Scientist 3] Something.
- [Scientist 5] I think it's a bubble gum coral.
- [Scientist 3] I think that you are right,
- [Scientist 1] Position for a minute.
so we can look at this a little bit more.
It's like three different things.
- [Scientist 2] Oh wow.
- [Scientist 1] On top of each other.
- [Scientist 4] Oh my goodness.
- [Scientist 3] Lynette, I'll come to you in a second.
All right.
Everybody, all of our scientist are sure.
Like, wow, wow!
- [Scientist 1] There are sea urchins down below there also.
- [Scientist 5] All sorts of good stuff.
- [Scientist 1] Goodness.
- [Scientist 4] Lots of stuff, intertwined around each other.
Some moving some not.
- [Scientist 5] Can you come up on Delta please.
And tilt your camera down.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah. Clearly a cool spot to be.
- [Scientist 4] Oh, look at what's on the backside.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah, so we got Basket Stars on the back.
- [Scientist 4] Yeah, for sure, Basket Stars.
- [Scientist 3] Can we tell what the underlying coral is?
It's just a, is it a Paragorgia?
- [Scientist 5] My untrained eye says yes.
- [Scientist 2] Holy cow.
- [Scientist 3] Wow. This is intense.
- [Scientist 4] That is gorgeous.
- [Scientist 3] Some type of Coriallum.
- [Scientist 4] How many organisms are on this one structure?
- [Scientist 1] That's a great question.
- [Scientist 5] Oh.
- [Scientist 4] Definitely more than two, three, at least four.
All things that look different, but they're all intertwined.
- [Scientist 3] So there's suggestion that the Basket Star
might be worth trying to sample.
One of them, there's many to choose from.
- [Scientist 5] Okay.
- [Scientist 3] I don't know what the best way is
to sample a Basket Star.
- [Scientist 5] Come wide, please.
I think.
- [Scientist 1] Wow.
- [Scientist 5] Maybe, just maybe we could slurp the center part.
Use it as a suction and put it in the front bio box.
I think I'll squish it.
I'm talking use the slurp as a suction cup.
- [Scientist 1] Using the slurp as.
- [Scientist 5] I don't think it'll fit in the slurp hose.
- [Scientist 3] I see.
I see, I see.
Okay.
- [Scientist 1] we are at 50%.
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- [Scientist 5] No, they're stubborn.
70%?
- [Scientist 1] All right, we're up at 70%.
- [Scientist 5] Nope, okay.
Well, abandoned a hope this one.
You can kill the slurp.
- [Scientist 3] Trevor, if possible.
- [Scientist 5] Yeah.
- [Scientist 3] While we're at this feature,
if we could pivot around,
to see this feature from the other side.
- [Scientist 5] You wanna see this far side here?
- [Scientist 3] Yeah.
We just wanna see a couple of the center discs.
We might get what we want, but we'll, oh, urchins.
- [Scientist 1] There's a lobster down there and urchins.
- [Scientist 2] Look at how wide the base of that is.
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- [Scientist 3] Okay, thanks a lot, Trevor.
- [Scientist 5] Okay, thanks.
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