- [Scientist] Tea or coconut water.
(group oohs) - [Scientist] Dumbo.
- [Scientist] Oh. - [Scientist 2] Wow.
- [Scientist] Yay. - [Scientist 2] Yay.
- That's a five.
- [Scientist] That's a pretty big one.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
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- [Scientist] It's little (indistinct).
- [Scientist] Aw.
- [Scientist] It's waving at us.
I like how his leg's kind of drooping down
in the breeze there.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
- [Scientist] Yeah, we can...
- [Scientist 2] He doesn't seem too bothered.
- [Scientist] No.
- [Scientist 2] It was floating along before
and now it's like: hold on to to something, like...
(Man laughs)
- [Scientist] Nice. Really nice.
- [Scientist 2] Aw. - [Scientist] Yeah.
(Woman laughs)
- [Scientist] Kind of floating along.
- [Scientist] Now we have a new answer:
what's the most exciting thing you've seen
on this expedition?
- [Scientist 3] I know, rocks.
(group laughs)
- [Scientist] You wish, Adam.
- [Scientist 2] The heart-shaped rock.
- [Scientist] Closer.
- [Scientist] Very cool.
- [Scientist] Huh, look at that.
One of my favorite fish
- [Scientist] Called (indistinct).
- [Scientist 2] Is it that lizard fish one?
- [Scientist] Mhmm, Bathysaurus.
- [Scientist] He's weird looking, huh?
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, the eyes on top of his head.
- [Scientist 2] It's bedazzled.
- [Scientist] Yeah, he is.
- [Scientist 2] Is it two fins on each side,
it looks like it has?
- [Scientist] Oh, is that true?
- [Scientist 2] I dunno, it might not be.
- [Scientist] Oh, like the pelvic fin
and the pectoral fin, yeah.
- [Scientist 2] You see that? Yeah.
- [Scientist] They're just very close together.
- [Scientist 2] Huh.
- [Scientist] Yeah, they're ambush predators.
So they, you typically find they're oriented
up slope in some way,
and this one kind of is.
And as some animals might floating down slope?
- [Scientist] Cool.
- [Scientist] They can pop up and ambush them.
- [Scientist 2] Whoa.
- [Scientist] Oh wow.
- [Scientist] Wow.
- [Scientist 2] This, this could be
the biggest yellow one we've seen.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] Yeah, it really dense branches.
Not really any kind of plainer directionality.
Just, just kind of all over the place
- [Scientist 2] Could do a quick partial.
(indistinct), that's good there.
Just so we can see that base is awesome.
- [Scientist 2] Half one coral, half the other.
- [Scientist 2] How many did you say?
- [Scientist] Looked like the whole fast was 20 centimeters
when we went over it
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- [Scientist 2] People were talking about.
They also don't look quite as...
Wow, look at that.
- [Scientist] Our friend, I think
it's a palythoas with a zoanthids.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] And the, uh, snake star on it.
Which is almost exactly what we saw last cruise.
- [Scientist] Yeah. - [Scientist] Very similar coverage.
And I kind of was curious if it's,
if the zoanthids are in the middle of their takeover,
or if they're kind of somehow agreeing to be half and half.
Bamboo coral.
- [Scientist] We've been fortunate to...
- [Scientist 2] A tall one. - [Scientist] Oh.
(group oohs)
(group laughs)
Awesome.
- [Scientist 2] Zoom in there, Dave.
- [Scientist] They're so color coordinated.
(woman laughs)
- [Scientist 2] The other one looked,
the polyps looks different on it.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, that definitely was different.
- [Scientist] Although they were,
they were sucked in, but they were had a old pick issue...
- [Scientist 2] They were like more domed too.
Like the whole thing seemed...
- [Scientist] Yeah. They were kind of more swollen,
like rounded.
- [Scientist] Well the, yeah, the stems,
like the base of the polyps,
it seemed to be able to close closer to skeleton.
- [Scientist] So this is a predation event?
- [Scientist] No
- [Scientist 2] No, it just attaches to get up
in the longer column to filter feed.
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- [Scientist] Is it one of those sea snails that makes the path?
- [Scientist 2] It might be one of the sea snails.
I just sort of saw like a little bit
of like a bluish glowy-ish tint.
- [Scientist 2] Okay, zoom in please.
- [Scientist] Aaron's going for the ID points. Let's see.
- [Scientist 2] Oh yeah, she's right.
She's on it.
- [Scientist 2] What is it?
- [Scientist 2] It's a slit snail.
- [Scientist 2] Ah, it looks very snail like, whoa.
- [Scientist 2] And they, these are the culprits
of making those little snail trails all over the rocks.
- [Scientist] Ooh, what's that?
- [Scientist 2] Let's look at this.
- [Scientist 2] This is a Siphonophorae.
This is one of the single bell Siphonophoraes.
Yeah, so right here at the top
is the, the swimming bell.
So that is one zooid.
And then you have the gastrozooids.
Those are the colorful ones and...
- [Scientist] That is just wicked.
- [Scientist] Really cool. - [Scientist] Wow.
- [Scientist] I don't know what kind of ctenophore it is.
- [Scientist] Got some more push in there, Dave.
- [Scientist 2] It's beautiful.
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- [Scientist] Is it the same kind, this ctenophore?
- [Scientist] Pretty dark, right?
- [Scientist] Yeah, it's darker.
- [Scientist 2] It's shining.
- [Scientist] Oh yeah, it's got red on this one.
- [Scientist 2] Oh, that's so wow.
- [Scientist] Ctenophores are common name,
is it comb jelly or am I mistaken?
- [Scientist] I think that's right.
- [Scientist 2] That's correct.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah. - [Scientist 2] Wow.
Wow, you have a cool light show, friend.
- [Scientist] Oh my gosh.
- [Scientist] Oh wow.
(group oohs)
(Man 2 beatboxes)
- [Scientist] Yep, we're doing it.
(group chuckles)
- [Scientist] You gotta follow it all.
- [Scientist 2] It's like disco lights.
- [Scientist 2] It's a really long string.
- [Scientist 2] Oh, what is going on there?
Oh, that's weird.
- [Scientist] Is that going into the sand?
- [Scientist 2] What?
- [Scientist 3] What is that?
- [Scientist 2] Oh my goodness.
What is it?
Oh, no, don't leave.
- [Scientist 3] Wait, what's it...
- [Scientist 2] I don't, I don't...
- [Scientist 3] Is it going into the sand?
- [Scientist 2] I don't know what it is.
Oh, it's a proboscis.
Whoa, what?
- [Scientist 3] Whoa.
- [Scientist] That's probably what the hole was from earlier.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah. So like the, this is the thing
I was talking about that makes the mounds.
That's right.
And it turns out it's proboscis.
They are in the phylum annelida.
So they are type of worm.
Peanut worm? Is their...
- [Scientist 2] that's a peanut worm?
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
- [Scientist 2] Oh cool. I've heard of those.
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