(gentle music)
- [Man] She is very
active right now. - [Woman] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Man] The mantle's kind of the other direction too,
that's why I was curious.
- [2nd Man] Okay, Alley, you wanna zoom in on that?
- [Man] She might be laying her eggs, it's possible.
- [2nd Woman] Really?
- [Man] Well, she's not in that upside-down posture.
She's very active.
No, she's moving one.
She's moving an egg, she has one in her arm.
- [2nd Woman] This might be the soft coral
that's related to the mushroom soft coral,
called Bathyalcyon robustum.
- [Man] That one octopus on the right,
it's mantle's shaped much like the alien in "Aliens."
- [Woman] That one really starting moving (laughs).
(both laughing)
- [Man] It's late.
- [Woman] Well, also, when you've seen so many octopus,
you have to find ways to distinguish them, right?
- [Man] Listen, it's a different shape, you know,
usually the, yeah, we've seen 'em more rounded.
- [Woman] Yes.
- [Man] It's a little more oblong.
It's a male and that is a female as well.
Those are all just straight pointed-tipped arms
on the right side.
Maybe they're courting.
Maybe there's something going on here.
- [2nd Man] And now that we're here, they're embarrassed.
- [Woman] Oh, octopus-
- [Man] Another octopus- - [Woman] With eggs.
Oh goodness.
- [2nd Woman] What?
- [2nd Man] Oh. And the glue,
it's got a bunch of glue on the rock.
- [Woman] Oh gosh.
- [2nd Woman] Oh, it sure does have a lot of glue. Wow.
So, not like, you know, the glue that comes in like a tube
but the octopus produces glue to cement
her eggs to the rock.
And even when eggs hatch, that glue's left behind.
Maybe what we saw earlier
was a predatory tunicate that had caught something,
and so it was closed.
- [Man] That's what I'm thinking.
- [2nd Man] Oh yeah.
- [Woman] But the polka dots-
- [2nd Woman] This one's open.
- [Woman] Before that one,
I had never see anything like that with polka dots.
(man and woman laughing)
And then there's a little protrusion
off the right side of it.
(gentle music)
- [2nd Man] Oh. That's a jelly-
What is that? - [Man] Very cool.
- [Woman] Benthic siphonophore?
Or is it a benthic Ctenophore?
- [Man] No.
It's a siphonophore. - [Woman] Siphonophore, yeah.
So, you can see the little lines that are just attaching
to the sea floor with.
- [3rd Man] Like fishing lines coming off it.
- [Man] Off to the left, yeah.
- [2nd Man] And the right also.
- [Woman] And the right. Yeah.
- [Man] Erica Burton from the Monterey Bay Sanctuary
gave us the name.
It's Drymalia Alessandrian.
Erica further, actually I think called it sea pineapples.
(woman laughing)
- [2nd Woman] Ah. - [Woman] Perfect.
(2nd woman laughing)
(gentle music)
- [Woman] Yeah, that one in the center right now
is super weird looking.
Looks like a bird pecking.
- [2nd Man] Thinking of a painful trip to the dentist.
(woman laughing)
Got the hole in my tooth that was about the size
of the ostium on that sponge.
- [Woman] How do I call this something sciencey?
- [2nd Woman] Unknown glass sponge.
- [Woman] Oh, then there's a green lunar sponge below it.
- [Man] Oh.
(people exclaiming)
- [Woman] The green sponge
we think is Latrunculia Austini.
- [2nd Man] Are they rare? Green sponge?
- [Woman] It was initially thought to be rare
but actually now we think they're a different color more.
So, it's darker gray, sort of in-shore,
and greener off-shore.
(gentle music)
Ranging from Alaska down to Washington.
(gentle music)
A lot of samples have come from quite a lot shallower
than this though.
So, it's nice to get a deep sample,
we'll be able to confirm
whether it is that same species
or another species in that genus.
- [2nd Woman] Oh, oh. (shrieking)
- [2nd Man] It's there, it's there, it's there, it's there.
- [Woman] Oh, yes. - [2nd Man] It's right there.
(woman tittering)
- [Man] You guys are the sound effects.
- [2nd Woman] No! (chuckles)
Yeah, a nice Paragorgia.
Woo, getting a few.
(gentle music)
It's a very fluffy Paragorgia. It is.
- [Man] Oh my goodness.
- [Woman] Yeah, it is kinda fluffy.
It is not, yeah.
(gentle music)
- [2nd Woman] All the polyps are out.
- [2nd Man] I can zoom in video, fill the screen with red.
Give us a polyp shot.
- [Woman] Yes.
(gentle music)
Basket stars.
(gentle music)
So, this is another heterochone.
(gentle music)
- [Man] Looks great.
- [2nd Man] That's a big crab for a little sponge.
- [Woman] Yeah. I'm very cramped.
- [2nd Woman] Yeah.
I think that's another one of the Paralomis crabs.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [2nd Woman] Paralomis multispina.
- [2nd Man] Luggage.
- [Woman] Huh.
(woman titters)
- [2nd Man] Do they eat sponges?
- [Man] No, this is a family of crabs
that uses it's (indistinct) most pair of appendages
to carry camouflage items.
I mean, I'm fooled.
I don't know about you all.
(everyone laughing)
- [Woman] I was gonna say, I don't see a thing.
It seems like that takes a little concentration.
- [2nd Woman] Yeah.
- [Man] I mean, it definitely distracted us.
- [Woman] Okay, Steve, was that a highlight?
I think that was a highlight.
(woman laughing)
- [Man] Ah, yeah. Yeah.
We'll put a highlight.
- [Woman] Was it? What would you rank it? (laughing)
- [Man] Well, I mean, it wasn't like, okay.
So, if it was on a sponge coral,
I would put it on like a four.
- [Woman] Wow.
Because it's on a sponge or coral.
- [Man] But it was just walking across the bottom,
so they're actually-
- [Woman] Well, so it was kind of like a clue
'cause it had the sponge on it.
So, maybe it was coming from this.
It was sort of a precursor coming to this
reef here.
- [Man] Yeah.
Okay, perfect. Got it.
- [Woman] Is that a rock sole?
With the white spots along the margins of the dorsal?
- [2nd Woman] Tom might have give it a break.
- [Woman] Yeah, I'm just trying to look
at the markings on it.
- [Man] Good captures on my-
- [Woman] Lateral, oh, the lateral line's
pretty straight though.
Look at that lateral line?
That's that series of pores that runs down
just by the gill cover.
It's pretty straight, a rock sole would have an arch.
So, maybe it's more of a...
- [2nd Woman] Erica Klee was saying Dover.
- [Woman] A Dover soul?
Okay.
- [2nd Woman] Mm-hm.
- [Woman] Let me look.
Let me look at the lateral line on a Dover soul.
Yeah. That is more of a straight lateral line.
Very cool.
Small mouth. - [2nd Woman] Yeah.
- [Woman] A straight lateral line.
We're gonna call it a Dover sole.
(gentle music)
- [2nd Woman] Right on.
- [Woman] Thank you, Erica.
Thank you, Tom.
- [2nd Woman] Yeah and thanks for the zoom.
- [Woman] This could be a levis species
but it's impossible to identify without a specimen
but I think she just wants to get a close-up picture
of this shrimp.
Hopefully this rockfish doesn't eat it.
It's red and yellow blotches.
(man laughing)
Yeah, it's beautiful.
A rather flat shrimp, might be confused with a lobster,
but no pinchers, buries in the sediment.
- [2nd Woman] We got it.
That's it.
- [Woman] Got it.
- [2nd Woman] We were correct.
That was the right shrimp.
- [Woman] Awesome.
Okay. Onwards.
- [2nd Woman] Good eye, Mary.
I didn't even see that before.
- [Man] That is a very large crab,
at least 40 centimeters
- [Woman] Tanner crab?
Really?
- [Man] You can see the lasers, they're on 'em now.
(gentle music)
- [Woman] Yep.
- [Man] Leg tip to leg tip, it's at least three
or four of those laser lengths.
- [Woman] That does look like a type of a spider crab.
That's beautiful.
Big Tanner crab.
Okay, gone.
- [Man] I don't think any of them
seem to have those lower claw missing.
I noticed that the other day, several of them,
they all had the lower claw missing.
- [Woman] Interesting.
- [Man] The pincer part of the claw.
- [Woman] Mm-hm. I see that of the left claw there.
Makes it hard to-
- [2nd Man] I gotta go.
- [2nd Woman] It's looking particularly photogenic.
- [2nd Man] Oh look.
- [2nd Woman] All the polyps out.
- [Man] Yeah. That's a great shot too.
- [2nd Woman] Those have such a super weird texture
on the surface.
Almost like softball-like
simultaneously kind of rubbery and crispy.
(gentle music)
(man laughing)
- [Man] This is a good shot
showing why these are called octocorals.
- [Woman] Mm.
- [Man] Oh, that was closed.
That one closed.
(gentle music)
- [Woman] And these guys can pull these feeding polyps
all the way in.
So, and then kind of close up the calyx around them.
So, you get almost a smooth surface.
There's a variety of different sea stars,
(indistinct), amphipods that will feed
on these corals.
And this group, the heteropolypus,
there are two color morphs,
one that's just a solid dark pink
and the polyps are a dark pink.
And then this light morph with the darker pink polyps.
And as far as we've been able to tell so far,
they are a single species
although we've only done mitochondrial sequencing so far.
And there are some octocorals that,
across multiple species, can have identical genetic
mitochondrial sequence for the genes we've looked at.
- [Man] Yeah, that's a really interesting,
you're kind of at the forefront of that narrative,
thinking about how genetics
and traditional morphological taxonomy intersect.
(gentle music)
Oh, a skeleton.
- [Woman] Do you wanna zoom on that?
- [Man] What are you?
What were you?
- [2nd Man] We've got a male, right?
It's- - [Man] Big.
- [2nd Man] That skull?
Decent size.
- [Woman] Yeah.
(gentle music)
- [Man] Awful.
- [2nd Man] Two meters.
Maybe a little longer two and a half meters.
- [Man] Not up on my dolphin skeleton (indistinct).
- [2nd Man] So, you think it is a dolphin?
- [Man] That's my guess.
I dunno.
- [2nd Woman] Yeah, I'd be able to tell you
if you could see the whole skull.
The trunks are very distinct on their dolphin skeletons.
I don't know if you see a spot
for where a melon would be or not on their head?
- [2nd Man] I don't think dolphins have tusks, do they?
- [Man] Not really. (chuckles)
That's very abnormal. (laughing)
That's a tooth.
- [2nd Man] It's a tooth?
It looks like a seal.
They got some big teeth.
(gentle music)
Like a dog canine.
- [Woman] I think we got some good zooms.
Some Marine mammal specialist will be able to tell us more.
(gentle music)
- [Man] Tom, we're on our way.
(gentle music)
- [Woman] I think so.
- [Man] We can resume 300 meters bearing 080.
Thank you.
- [2nd Woman] Could be a giant grenadier.
That's
actually the common name
of one species, coming right on in.
- [Woman] They got creative with that one.
- [2nd Man] Contact.
- [2nd Woman] Right?
(gentle music)
(woman titters)
(gentle music)
So, there are actually two species
of thornyheads that are found off the West Coast here.
There are longspine thornyheads
and shortspine thornyheads.
And-
- [2nd Man] So many if you want, really.
- [2nd Woman] The feature there,
that you can see on this guy, is the
third dorsal spine.
On the longspines, it is much higher
than the rest of the dorsal fin.
And he's gonna turn profile just so we can see that.
- [Man] Is this one digging in a little?
Can not fly away with the current.
(woman laughing)
That's what it looks like.
- [Woman] Yeah. - [2nd Woman] Holding on.
(gentle music)
- [Woman] Looks like it got into a fight with something.
Almost looks like sucker marks on the front of its face.
- [Man] Oh yeah. - [2nd Man] It does.
- [Woman] Yeah, it's 'cause it's smart.
- [Man] Those baby octopus's can pack a punch.
- [Woman] Yeah. (laughs)
Do they eat squid?
Do skates or octopus?
(gentle music)
- [2nd Woman] I'm more familiar with skates eating
like shelled animals off the sea floor, but-
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [2nd Woman] Have to look this one up.
I was mentioning earlier though-
- [Woman] Things up close.
- [2nd Woman] If we look closely, yeah,
then you see a whole nother kind of (laughs)
layer of biodiversity when you start looking closely.
- [Woman] Yeah, completely different community
of smaller organisms.
(gentle music)
- [2nd Man] That's it, score.
- [Woman] Woo.
(Man 2 laughing)
- [Woman] All right. Okay.
(man laughing)
- [Man] Maybe, I wasn't worried.
- [Woman] Dropping a target here for sure.
- [2nd Man] I wasn't worried at all.
- [Man] Drop targets all around it.
- [Woman] (laughs) Yeah.
(gentle music)
- [Man] Oh, wow.
- [Woman] Yeah. So different.
- [Man] It is so different.
- [2nd Woman] 3D model we do
will really show volume change, I would think.
- [Man] The rib bones just kind of disintegrated there.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [Man] The whole rib cage was supported last year.
I mean, it was still upright and everything.
Still upright.
- [Woman] Wow.
Wow.
(gentle music)
- [3rd Woman] The video.
So, we're good on video two?
- [Woman] Clean out as many worms
and sediments around it.
We have to look closer to see if there are any left.
- [Man] You guys can't see it at home, but-
- [2nd Woman] Last year it was a pretty obvious carpet.
- [Man] Yeah. Yeah.
(gentle music)
- [2nd Woman] So, that's one piece, right?
- [Man] That's one piece right now.
- [Woman] I think that's one piece.
- [Man] Do you wanna get more?
We can add more to the sample.
(gentle music)
- [2nd Woman] Yeah.
- [Woman] Yeah, we can. - [2nd Woman] That's great.
- [Man] Yep.
- [2nd Woman] And that one, Mo,
that one does have the limpets on it.
(gentle music)
- [Woman] Jumping ship.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [2nd Woman] Yeah.
- [Woman] Geronimo.
- [2nd Woman] Awesome.
And here we see some bone-eating worms
that are not in large clumps, but more individuals.
- [Man] Just spell or write what the name
of this bone is so I can record it properly.
Okay.
- [Woman] Ah, humerus.
- [2nd Woman] Not in that it makes you laugh
kind of humerus.
- [Woman] Yeah. That's the ulna.
That's your funny bone.
- [Man] (chuckles) Yes.
- [2nd Woman] The grenadier is very interested to watch.
Don't let it make you nervous.
(woman chuckling)
- [Man] Oh I think it's got it.
- [Woman] Oh!
(laughing and cross-talking)
- [Man] That was really good.
Can we do the carousel?
- [2nd Woman] Wow. Okay.
- [Woman] It's very much like the-
- [2nd Woman] Ooh, let's see.
I'm impressed too. (laughs)
Mo says, "I'm impressed."
- [Man] For anyone watching out there on the internet,
we're gonna wave the wave goodbye to the whale fall.
Bye Mr. Whale Fall.
- [Woman] Bye whale fall. - [2nd Woman] Bye whale.
- [Man] Maybe Miss Whale.
We don't know.
- [2nd Man] Coming down.
- [2nd Woman] We'll see you next year.
- [Woman] Maybe, maybe not.
(woman laughing)
Decomposition's happening really fast.
- [Man] Yeah, might not be much left.
(woman laughing) (gentle music)