(calming music playing)
- Come right down on a mat.
How's that?
- That's great.
(laughing)
- Wow. Oh my gosh.
- Sometimes you get lucky.
- I can't even guesstimate how big that is, how wide.
- This is a totally classic looking edge of a seat
with the background and then lamb beds
and then microbial mat.
The shell that's just down at the bottom,
that's Achrax.
That's the solar Miats.
They live deeper in the sediment
so you never see 'em sticking out,
except usually when they're dead.
But they have sort of a small shell on either side
and a really large, let's say, periostricum.
It's really nice to be at a good seep site.
- I know.
- This is lovely.
- Saw one little bubble just now.
Yeah, seeing it
- Yeah, look at that.
Seeing them now?
- Yeah, they're right
- Right there.
- Hang on, is it in my eyeline?
- Mine's still one of seven.
- Oh, look at that!
- Oh!
- Hello, Mr Sablefish.
- Oh wow!
Wow.
(indistinct talking)
Yeah! Bubbles, bubbles.
Wow.
- Where are we seeing this?
Oh there.
- I mean, I feel like there's just
a lot of that going on all over this mat.
- Yeah, right there is great.
- It's all of these, all the little things sticking up.
Those are all them.
- Beautiful.
- Yeah.
- See there's all sorts of little snails as well
- It's amazing
- Oh yeah, there's so many.
- Andrew, are those little snails, like,
Litterina-type snails?
- Uh. 25% on there, Mike.
- Yeah, Carrie, they're little snails, uh.
They're not Litterina, I think they're mostly Provanna.
- Ah I see, alright alright.
- Looks good to me.
- Okay.
(calming music playing)
- We're looking at, there is a nice clip, Togena clam
and there's also a small Scale worm
out to the right hand side, (unclear).
- Oh.
- And then you can also see a whole lot of little gastropods
and snails sitting, living, and feeding off the map.
- Oh, I see what's going on here.
- Will it work?
- Well, I won't be able to pick it back up,
so that's a win.
- Here we go.
- Oh!
- Immediately. Look at that.
- And then we'll also take a chunk of that rock
for analysis.
- 'kay.
(calming music playing)
- Think you can go in a little more?
- Uh...
- Couldn't give me any more information,
so I'm good with that.
Thank you.
- Sure.
- Really nice shot of that crab
and thorny head,
both on the carbonate.
- The- the scoop will get a lot more material
than the- the slurp will,
and it'll also get a lot of the- the finer material
if we don't shake it too much.
- So with this scoop, we want to get as much,
sort of the mud as intact as possible,
so we don't want to shake it out
to get the fines out or anything.
- I think it's more like flan
that's sat out on the counter for about three weeks.
(loud laughing)
- That's so weird.
This... totally want to see what this looks like
when it goes up.
- It will probably just disintegrate.
Looks like a fur coat.
- Yeah.
- Wow. There are so many of them there.
You can really see how many small bubbles
are right below us.
- They're either wobbly too.
- Yeah.
- Well at this stuff when they're released,
they might actually- they get a hydrate crust
on the outside.
So it's actually this little, like, amorphous ice ball,
kind of getting floating up to the surface.
Can we zoom in a little bit on these clams?
They all looked dead to me.
- Oh no, those are-
- Those are five ones in there, on the right.
Yeah, in the foreground.
- I'd actually say- they're all pretty- pretty good.
- What about these, um, pale pink-y things
with the- with the two things?
- Those are the siphons of the clams.
- Oh, sticking up that way?
Yeah, yeah, alright, I see.
- Um, how did you spell- what were the clams?
Uh, A...
- Achrax.
A-C-H-R-A-X.
- Perfect.
- They're a solar Miad that's instead of a vessel
of a Miad.
- You're not totally wrong.
- What kind of snail is that?
- It's a, uh, Nicu- Niculana?
Neptunia, that's the name. It's Neptunia.
- Oh, that is also Neptunia?
- Yeah that- that's Neptunia.
- I was thinking of an 'N' name,
but I was like, it doesn't look...
- Yeah. That's- that's why I said Niculana.
And I said, I was like, well, that was the wrong word.
- What is that? Just stop.
(laughing)
No, it's peachy mat.
- No, serious.
You want to push in there real quick?
- Oh, that's so pretty.
- Oh yeah.
- Sometimes see the orange mat
and there's been some hypothesis in the literature
that it's more of a heavy- heavier hydrocarbons
can leave to the orange mat.
- Nice to have you guys.