(gentle music)
- Oh, that's perfect.
(gentle music)
Maybe we can zoom out slowly
and just see
what's right there. - They're right there.
- Where is it?
- Right down, look down. - Oh my goodness.
It's huge.
- [Scientist] What is it?
- [Scientist] So that's a hydroid
that we were looking at the other day, a corymorpha.
- Oh, yeah. - So this is a corymorphidae.
- [Scientist] Germinated?
- [Scientist] So it's a single polyp hydroid
and this one is just absolutely massive.
- [Scientist] Oh, yeah.
- [Scientist] So those lasers are 10 centimeters apart.
- [Scientist] Wow.
- [Scientist] This has got to be the largest one I've seen.
- [Scientist] Wow.
- [Scientist] It's huge, oh my goodness.
That's not what I thought
it was. - What is it?
- [Scientist] It's a, hydrozoan, in the family corymorphidae.
It's a single polyp.
- [Scientist] Can we get rid of the lasers for a nice capture?
- [Scientist] Yeah, that thing's pretty.
- [Scientist] Thank you, perfect.
- [Scientist] So like the width
of the body- - That's so pretty.
- [Scientist] Is 10 centimeters.
Normally they're maybe 10 centimeters in total.
- [Scientist] It's so big.
It's huge, oh my goodness.
- [Scientist] I feel like it'd be really soft.
- [Scientist] Oh yeah.
(Scientist laughing)
Yeah, they're like little balloon animals.
Oh, it's eating something.
- [Scientist] Ooh.
- Oh, What?
Oh, that urchin maybe.
Does it eat urchins?
- [Scientist] Oh what's that?
What is that? - Oh, wow.
- Oh, that's a scale worm. - Oh, a worm.
- You can see the scales. - Those darn worms.
- [Scientist] Gross, ooh.
(Scientist laughing)
- [Scientist] Clinging on for dear life.
- [Scientist] Who's eating who here?
- [Scientist] I don't know.
(group laughing)
- [Scientist] It's truly the circle of life going on.
(Scientist laughing)
- [Scientist] Do scale worms eat these things?
- [Scientist] I have no idea.
- [Scientist] Great,
that's learning something. - I need a big meal.
- [Scientist] That would be big.
But you can really see that-
- [Scientist] Look at it.
It's so pretty.
You see that?
- [Scientist] Eww, Megan
- [Scientist] The scales are just like iridescent and beautiful.
- [Scientist] No.
- [Scientist] It looks strange.
- [Scientist] You see the bristles?
They're like golden hair.
- [Scientist] No, it it's too weird. (laughs)
- [Scientist] It's gorgeous.
It's cool. - My little fuzzy friend.
(Scientist laughing)
- [Scientist] Gorgeous would not be the word I'd use.
Just go ahead.
- [Scientist] It is pretty cool though.
- [Scientist] It's an amazing sight.
- [Scientist] Yeah, that's really cool.
- [Scientist] Rock and roll with me.
- [Scientist] Oh, we're moving.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] It is cool.
- [Scientist] Ooh.
- [Scientist] I can't believe we almost missed this thing.
- I know. it's awesome. - It is amazing. (laughs)
- [Scientist] Asaco Monsamato says, "Huge."
(group laughing)
- [Scientist] Yeah.
I'm glad she it's huge too
'cause I've never seen anything quite this large.
- [Scientist] It's a hydrozoan.
So pretty.
- [Scientist] I tagged it, don't worry.
- [Scientist] All right, everyone.
We're in the middle of about to do a watch change
so we'll be quiet for a bit. (Scientist laughing)
And then we'll switch out for the next four hours.
Thanks for sticking with us.
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- [Scientist] Oh, what is that little guy?
- [Scientist] Oh, an acrobatic snail, I think.
- [Scientist] Aww cute.
- [Scientist] And he has such an iridescence shell.
- [Scientist] Oh, they're amazing.
I have always wanted to be able to follow one
of these all the way down.
I've always struggled because they move so fast.
- [Scientist] Look at that.
- [Scientist] Go for zoom.
- [Scientist] Wow.
- [Scientist] And he knew that you wanted to capture him
on film.
- [Scientist] He looks like he's got a little face.
(group laughing)
- [Scientist] Oh my gosh, I've never seen up close before.
(group exclaims)
- [Scientist] This is great.
- [Scientist] Oh my gosh.
- [Scientist] What type
of snail is it? - Scott says
this a Gaza snail. - Little wider?
- [Scientist] Gaza.
- [Scientist] Gaza Snail.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] A little Gaza snail.
- Beautiful. - Oh.
- [Scientist] And he's what?
Maybe three centimeters? - Oh, he's tumbling.
(Scientist laughing)
- [Scientist] They're so fast when they get going.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- Oh my. - Wow.
- [Scientist] What a lovely shell.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- [Scientist] Oh my goodness, this is making me dizzy,
just trying to follow him.
(group laughing)
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] Oh, that's super cool.
- [Steve] Yeah.
- [Scientist] An anemone I think?
Living on the end of the black coral?
- [Steve] Yeah, yeah.
- [Scientist] Pushing a bit there too.
- [Steve] And then some more of this coral debris
which is a good sign.
Well, maybe not for the coral though. (laughs)
So this is what I was saying before about these,
this one is a black coral right here
called Parantipathes.
And then there's a closed fly trapping enemy
called actinoscyphia. - Where is my mouse for this?
Oh that's kind of-
- [Scientist] Oh, you take those photos.
- [Scientist] Taken over to be part of the colony.
- [Scientist] She's taken them.
- Oh, okay. - She's doing those.
- [Scientist] I just have it up there
so I can frame up shot more.
- [Scientist] Gotcha.
- [Steve] All right, great.
Great shot of this one.
It looks like it's digesting a meal, maybe.
(Scientist laughing)
So just about what most of us are gonna be doing
in a few minutes.
(Scientist laughing)
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- [Scientist] What are we looking at here, Steve?
- [Steve] Yeah, so these are two branches
of an anigorzhy colony that have been completely taken
over by this benthic ctenophore.
So you can see that ctenophores are several in a row here
but they have these long tentacles extending off
which they kind is like fishing lures
capture particles out of the water column.
- [Scientist] Go ahead and zoom more in if you want a little.
- [Steve] These are really poorly known
but there's a few genera.
The one we most commonly see at these depths
is called Tjafiella.
But this one might be different,
but it looks like actually
the ctenophore is partially taken over these branches.
They're so live coral polyps, which is amazing
that the coral polyps are able to subsist
after being taken over in part by these ctenophores.
Really great imagery.
- [Scientist] Wow, that's cool.
You can even see their little lines.
- [Steve] Yeah, so they, they retract their tentacles
kind of like reeling in a fishing line to feed.
But what's more surprising is I've never seen this before
that the branches still have live coral polyps on them.
So it's like kind of like a shared-
- It's like every other.
- [Steve] Yeah, all right, great, thanks.
All set.
- [Scientist] Okay.
- [Scientist] Stunning images, thank you.
- [Steve] Really nice shot here with a bunch of associates.
You've got some small shrimp on top.
This is brittle stars,
maybe a couple different species here,
at least three maybe.
Three or four species of brittle stars.
And then on the rock surface
you've also got like maybe these little ones.
- [Scientist] I was just gonna ask about that.
- [Scientist] Okay.
- [Steve] And there's some sternostylus friends, yeah.
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] Yeah, actually zoom a little bit.
- [Scientist] Yeah, can we get a zoom on that?
- [Scientist] Oh, we've got a fish.
- [Scientist] Ooh.
- [Scientist] Ooh, wow. - A big fish.
- [Scientist] We're also going to wanna zoom
on his head and gills if we can.
- [Scientist] Hey.
- [Scientist] Great.
- [Scientist] Ooh, both in the same am frame,
nice. - Nice.
Beautiful.
- [Scientist] He's just chilling.
- [Scientist] Do we know what kind of fish it is?
- [Scientist] Let's see if we have any folks from shore
that can chime in.
I'm not a fish expert.
- [Scientist] I'm also not a fish expert.
- [Scientist] Nobody in this van.
- [Scientist] No fish experts.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] Ah, we've got Ken from the chat.
- [Scientist] Oh.
- [Scientist] Diplokenthopoma, wow.
(group laughing)
This is a beautiful shot.
- [Scientist] That's a nice, nice view.
- [Scientist] Nice lighting.
Can we zoom in a little bit more?
Great.
- Ken is now saying cusk-eel.
I can't even try to say these names.
I shouldn't, I shouldn't try.
(group laughing)
- [Scientist] Ottidae.
- [Scientist] Assisidae.
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] First the anemone please.
- [Scientist] Okay.
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] Oh, and he's got a brittle star associate.
- [Scientist] Oh this looks like the anemone we saw earlier.
I think we might wanna-
- [Scientist] We'll need to try to get a closeup
maybe of the mouth?
- Yeah, if possible. - Yeah, we can pull that off.
- [Scientist] There goes that brittle star.
- [Scientist] If we need to stop moving for a moment,
we might want to do that
to get a really good zoom. - Oh, we are just coming-
- [Scientist] It's okay, we're good.
- [Scientist] We're good? Okay.
- [Scientist] Wow, that's so pretty.
- [Scientist] Anemones always manage to look iridescent somehow.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] They really do.
- [Scientist] It's really beautiful.
I wonder if it's because
they're like partially translucent in places?
- [Scientist] Is that what it is?
- [Scientist] I mean maybe.
I don't know.
- [Scientist] You can see it a little bit though,
in between the tentacles.
- [Scientist] I could watch it forever, this is awesome.
- [Scientist] Yeah, me too.
- [Scientist] It might even open up or something.
- [Scientist] Oh wow, the Argus view is really nice.
- [Scientist] Once it gets comfortable with the-
- [Scientist] Well here's the catch.
These supposedly also jump.
(group laughing)
- [Scientist] Okay.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] Ooh, bathysaurus.
- [Scientist] Ooh, fishy, fish.
- [Scientist] Bathysaurus.
- [Scientist] Bathysaurus mollis.
- [Scientist] I'm gonna zoom in on head and shoulders.
- [Scientist] All right, zoom in.
- [Scientist] I love their faces.
They're just like so happy and smiley.
(group laughing)
- [Scientist] Looks kind of something you might see in...
Who's that?
What is that?
A movie person who does "The Corpse's Bride?"
- [Scientist] Oh, Tim Burton?
- [Scientist] Tim Burton.
This looks like a character from a Tim Burton film.
- [Scientist] Absolutely, it does.
- [Scientist] "Nightmare before Christmas" right there.
(Scientist laughing)
- [Scientist] Tim Burton should definitely do a movie
about the deep sea.
- [Scientist] I would watch that.
- [Scientist] Yeah, I would.
- [Scientist] Mr. Burton, if you're listening,
we are available to assist.
(Scientist laughing)
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- A relicanthus. - This is a relicanthus.
- [Scientist] Arelicanthus daphneae.
- [Scientist] Wow, a relicanthus.
- [Scientist] Can you tell us a little bit about this species?
- [Scientist] Yeah, so this is a type...
Well, it used to be grouped in within anenomes,
but now it's in its own group.
It's in the family of relicanthanae, relicanthus daphneae.
The long tentacled anenome
I guess would be a nice common name for it
I'm not sure if anybody else has common names
that they've come up for this organism in particular.
A lot of the deep sea organisms don't have common names.
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] Whoops, what is this?
- [Scientist] Squat lobster.
- [Scientist] Yep, so that's a sternostylus, squat lobster.
And this looks like it was a hemicorallium coral
but it's been colonized by zoanthids.
So these are parazoanthids overgrowing,
a hemicorallium skeleton
with some squat lobsters and some brittle stars.
Behind it, is a glass sponge in the family rossellidae
Probably a porifera.
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] The amount of that-
- [Scientist] One shot.
- [Scientist] Look at that.
- [Scientist] I know.
It's just the whole wall covered.
(gentle music)
- [Scientist] All right, coming up a little bit.
- [Scientist] All right.
- I could spend a lot of time on this wall.
- [Scientist] Yeah.
- [Scientist] Yup.
- [Scientist] It's worth it.
- [Scientist] The entire dive could be on the wall
and we'd be happy.
That'll make the next watch happy.
See this beautiful coral and sponge garden.
- [Scientist] This is rare, yeah.
- [Scientist] You're watching it.
- [Yeah] this is wallpaper material.
- [Scientist] Mm-hmm.
- [Scientist] Megan, you have a shout out
Someone is very impressed with your ability
to maintain science commentary,
and navigation at the same time.
- [Megan] Aww, thank you.
- [Scientist] That's very impressive.
- [Scientist] And I agree, yes.
- [Scientist] Very impressive, Megan.
- [Megan] Yeah, Looking at deep sea animals
makes me very happy.
Yeah, there's something about this wall.
And Steve was telling me, this area
they hadn't seen high density communities like this.
So this might be a for a kingdom in Palmira.
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