- [Woman 1] 30 meters, bearing 210.
- [Woman 2] Beautiful. Oh my gosh.
- [Woman 3] Yeah, that's a good still of Hercules
doing its thing.
- [Woman 1] Thank you, Alex.
- [Woman 2] Okay. What's our next bearing?
- [Woman 1] 210.
- [Woman 2] Roger. That seems like an awesome one.
Wow, just on this one boulder.
- [Woman 3] Yep. Yeah.
- [Man 1] We're looking for a sign for this dive.
I'd say we've got one on this.
- [Woman 3] Yeah.
- [Woman 2] Oh my gosh. Amazing.
- [Woman 3] Still not sure on the genus,
but definitely a primnoid.
So, and the leggy white ones are also a primnoid,
but different species.
- [Woman 1] Great. Are we good here?
- [Woman 3] Yep.
- [Woman 1] Okay, go wide.
- [Woman 2] Oh my God.
That gives me goosebumps.
- [Woman 3] Yeah, that's a-
- [Woman 2] Wow.
- [Woman 3] That's a still shot there.
- [Man 1] It grabbing away there. Yeah
- [Woman 2] Wowza.
- [Woman 1] Clicking like crazy.
- [Man 1] With that nice, pillowy-
- [Woman 2] Oh my God.
(solemn music)
- [Man 1] My precious.
- [Woman 2] What is this a bamboo? What is that?
- [Man 1] Precious coral.
- [Woman 2] Precious coral.
- [Woman 3] This is a beautiful picture.
This is just-
- [Man 1] Stunning.
- [Woman 3] absolutely stunning.
One thing that strikes me about these,
there's a sea star on top of the rock there too,
one thing that always strikes me about these is
they seem so oddly artistically balanced.
- [Woman 2] Video, can we zoom?
Yeah, they really do.
They're very harmonious.
- [Woman 3] Yeah, and I'm wondering if
that's just a distribution of the mass
and so as a requirement,
but it's a common-
- [Woman 2] It's partially- they're all in a plane
and none of the branches overlap each other.
- [Woman 3] Oh yes, that is correct.
- [Man 1] Yeah.
- [Woman 3] Yeah, and that might be
because of their relationship with the current.
- [Woman 1] Oh, interesting.
- [Woman 2] So it's most advantageous
for it to form sort of like a sieve.
- [Woman 3] Uh huh. Right, exactly.
This is a Hemicorallium ducale,
if I'm saying it right.
Wow, it's polyps really stick out far.
(soft music)
- [Man 1] Yeah.
- [Man 2] Okay, that's...
- [Woman 3] Wow, they get out there.
There's a shrimp in the background.
They make the most of their real estate.
- [Man 2] That's full zoom.
- [Woman 2] Okay, awesome.
- [Woman 3] Could be a...
- [Woman 2] Love a good full zoom.
- [Woman 3] Sibogagorgia species, but not sure.
(soft bouncy music)
- [Man 3] That's the first one
we've seen on this dive too.
So again, we just documented another species here.
That's terrific.
- [Man 4] All right, fly-by imaging.
(laughs)
- [Man 3] That was enough, though.
That was the picture, that's what it was.
- [Man 4] We'll look overhang here, underneath an overhang.
- [Man 4] Here's a stalked... something.
- [Man 3] Ah, this is bolosoma species B
it'll have a yellow stalk on it,
and it will have that osculum or I'll eat my hat.
- [Man 4] If we zoom big is it gonna see this... hat-eating.
- [Man 3] Ah, there it is, see it, see it?
It's there, it's there. I'm going to circle that right now.
See that big depression right there?
That's what I was looking for with the other one.
[Man 4] Oh yeah, cool, good call.
- [Man 3] That's characteristic of this genus bolosoma
- [Man 4] So is the the stalk hollow?
It looks like it descends down into the stalk.
- [Man 3] I don't think so. I don't think so.
Sampled these once before; they're really beautiful.
They're really classic with this yellow stalk,
they're wonderful.
- [Man 5] All sorts. So that's a beautiful thing.
Okay, come wide please.
- [Man 3] Oh, that's great.
Bolosoma species B is what we call it.
Thank goodness I don't have to eat my hat
because I only have one Nautilus hat.
(laughs)
[Man 3] I wonder if he could put the lasers on now
because you can get an idea
of the actual diameter of this head.
[Man 4] There you go.
[Man 3] Wherever they are.
- [Woman 4] Top left corner of it.
- [Man 3] Oh geez!
- [Man 4] That's a good scale.
- [Man 3] It's gotta be like a meter across or something.
- [Man 4] Probably, yeah.
- [Man 3] That's ridiculous!
- [Man 4] That's incredible.
The veins on the top right there... oh incredible.
- [Man 3] Oh!
- [Woman 4] Can I hug it?
- [Man 3] I don't think you can hug it.
I think you're going to need a ladder to climb it.
- [Man 4] You wanna push in more,
see some of the structure on it?
- [Woman 5] Well, how tall would that be?
- [Man 3] I don't know...
- [Man 4] Three meters is Hercules?
Five, three to five meters tall.
- [Man 5] Yeah.
- [Man 3] Yeah.
- [Man 4] Look at the web, incredible.
- [Man 6] You've achieved the apex of Spongedom right here!
- I doubt if I am ever gonna see a bigger one than that one.
That's the King right there.
- [Man 4] That is.
See if we can find that little squat lobster
on the right side of the stalk.
See if we can say hi.
- [Man 3] Oh, there he is.
- [Man 4] Uh huh, yep, there he is.
- [Man 3] That's a little munidopsis, I think?
They typically are white and they kind of have blunt claws.
- [Man 6] That guy is obviously the King
of this surrounding, Kingdom.
It's got the ultimate condo.
- [Man 4] Yeah, no kidding. Penthouse suite.
- [Man 3] Uh huh. How long did it take
that little squat lobster
to crawl up and find his home.
(chuckles)
Oh my God, there's a hundred stairs of this thing.
- [Man 4] Whish they'd fixed the elevator.
- [Woman 5] And what is it eating there? Is it coming down?
- [Man 3] They just get stuff from the water.
And the sponge is filtering, right,
so the water is going to be coming through that hole.
I dunno which direction, but.
- [Man 4] All right, Erin, you want to let her
leave frame before they know?
- [Man 3] I think the water comes in that direction,
the way the crab was, and it comes out,
- [Man 4] Keep it zoomed in.
- [ Man 3] but I'm not absolutely sure.
- [Man 4] Excuse me, a star.
- [Man 3] Can you zoom in on the Seastar
eating a bamboo coral right there.
- [Man 6] Disturb it's lunch.
- [Man 3] I think this is the first clear case of predation.
- [Man 4] Yeah, you can clearly see how the stalks
were stripped of coral flesh below the sea star.
- [Man 5] Okay, push in more.
- [Man 4] What do you think Chris, is it its stomach?
- [Man 3] Yeah, it's hard to see his stomach
'cause his arms are kind of all wavy.
So I think this guy is called the evoplosoma,
is the species.
He said the family Goniasteridae.
And he's a well-known evil sea star,
(laughs)
and that's what he does for a living.
He just cleaned off all of these branches.
Yeah, it looks like evoplosoma.
- [Man 4] Did you say evil?
- [Man 3] Evil?
Yeah, they're eating these beautiful corals, that's evil.
- [Man 4] But is that actually the name of it?
- [Man 3] Oh, oh, its evo-plosoma, not evil-plosoma,
but maybe should have been named evil-plosoma.
- [Woman 5] That's what I heard, too, evil.
That's what I wrote on my notes.
(everyone laughs)