- [Scientist 1] You don't just study the ocean,
you have to study the whole planet,
but it just turns out to 72% of it's underwater.
- [Scientist 2] Oh, hi. - [Scientist 3] Oh.
- [Scientist 2] Hello. Look at that.
- [Scientist 2] What are you?
- [Scientist 1] So what we have here is a bamboo coral.
Although, I suspect it's different from the
sparsely branching ones,
since it has more of highly branched structure,
but some, something we can take a look at.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, sure.
- [Scientist 1] The polyp zoom is very, very helpful.
There we go. Beautiful.
- [Scientist 2] Wow.
- [Scientist 1] Oftentimes you'll see small critters
like amphipods or isopods,
or mysid shrimp or something like that,
kind of around and perched on the corals.
Great. Awesome. - [Scientist 2] So awesome
- You can see them,
closing up their tentacles too.
A potential chance that they all just,
you know, maybe got some food particles
when they all closed up
or it could have sensed some disturbance
from Herc's thrusters.
So this could either be a very large sparse brancher,
but, it's a lot more highly branched
towards the branch tips.
So, I suspect it might be something different.
But, still this is great imagery
that'll help us make that determination later on.
- [Scientist 3] Hello, tunicate. - [Scientist 4] Whoa.
- [Scientist 1] Culeolus is the genus name for those tunicates
and the family Pyuridae.
- [Scientist 2] Cule... Can you say it again?
- [Scientist 1] Culeolus.
- [Scientist 2] Culeolus.
- [Scientist 1] It's turning to face us.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah it is. Oh my gosh.
That's a really unsettling. - [Scientist 1] Whoa
- [Scientist 2] It really is. - Oh wow.
[Scientist 4] I love this view.
- [Scientist 3] Yeah I know, I'm sorry I'm running outta,
running out of zoom coins.
- [Scientist 1] Oh, what is that?
- [Scientist 2] Very, very needle, nosy.
- [Scientist 1] It's like ether.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
- [Scientist 1] What are you?
- [Scientist 2] Someone lost their quill.
(woman chuckles)
Anymore, is anymore in there, Dave?
Awesome.
A snipe eel.
- [Scientist 1] Snipe eel.
- [Scientist 1] Maybe.
Nemichthys - Interesting
- [Scientist 2] I enjoy that name.
- [Scientist 2] Weird.
- [Scientist 1] Nice shot, there.
- If we listen for the snipe sound.
(all laughing)
It's good to know that snipe running,
so, it's alive and well in the deep sea.
- [Scientist 2] Very interesting face.
- [Scientist 1] Yeah.
- [Scientist 2] All right, let it go then.
- [Scientist 1] Oh this
- [Scientist 2] Oh it's rotating for us. Hello.
Alright, Dave, you wanna challenge?
(indistinct talking)
Oh, what's that?
Poly euther.
- [Scientist 1] I think it's one.
Yeah. - [Scientist 2] Yeah.
- [Scientist 1] Not really swimming around,
it's just kind of floating. - Floating.
- [Scientist 1] Oh no, that's not a
- [Scientists] What is that?
- [Scientist 1] Oh yeah, it is.
- [Scientists] Okay.
- [Scientist 1] What are you?
Different looking one.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah. Oh, don't come into us.
- [Scientist 1] It's really not swimming.
- [Scientist 2] Hmm not really.
- [Scientist 1] Going with the flow. - [Scientist 2] (indistinct)
- [Scientist 1] We'll have to get a little bit ahead.
- [Scientist 2] Only a Kony Astrid,
(indistinct) star family (indistinct) austerity.
- [Scientist 1] Ruthless, ruthless coral predators.
- [Scientist 2] Let him push on a bit more there, Dave.
- [Scientist 1] Kony Astrid,
I'm saying that so I remember it.
- [Scientist 2] Looks like hip hysteria.
- [Scientist 3] There's some of those hydrozoads, correct.
The yellow to the, to the right of the sea star.
- [Scientist 2] Yep. Yeah. So a lot of the bare skeleton
will be colonized by hydrozoans.
You can see that the tissue is sort of receding
from the base.
- [Scientist 1] Closed up polyps. A lot of it.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, this little star is, it's quite small.
They do get quite a bit bigger than this.
- [Scientist 1] Really interesting bramble leaf
branches here coming off of the base there.
- Yeah.
- [Scientist 2] Do you think that's a different species
or is it the same?
- [Scientist 1] You know, we see these kind of
branches come off once in a while
and typically they're near wounds or something,
but I don't think,
I would say it's probably related to the coral here.
[Scientist 2] (indistinct)
No, maybe even precated upon,
damage and then regrown.
- [Scientist 2] Okay.
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