Does anyone know the sp. name for this siphonophore? I have the common name written down as galaxy siphonophore but that's getting me images that don't quite match. It's in FF b/c the video glitched badly. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 784 part 2. #antarcticclimateconnections #MarineLife
I am done screaming into the void today so here you go, have a whole loaf of scale worm. That thing is huge. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 784 #antarcticclimateconnections #MarineLife
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In the deep ocean & Antarctic waters, sponges grow at a rate of fewer than 2cm/yr. While life on land seems to move at an oft dizzying pace, the size of this sponge suggests this animal may have been alive for hundreds of years. #AntarcticClimateConnections
We can now talk about what we found on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social #AntarcticClimateConnections expedition!
A huge section of #iceshelf broke off and politely got out of the way, allowing us to observe pristine under-ice habitat.
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A purple-ish colored jelly bell surrounded by long thin tentacles splayed out against a dark water backdrop.
A squid swimming above a rocky sea floor. The head and arms are reddish orange and the mantle hazy metallic shiny colors to it
Squid swimming in the middle of the water column. Reddish orange in color, with an eye facing the camera and arms pointing downward
A speckled fish sitting on the rocky sea floors the fish has some large pelvic fins, large eyes, and a life coming up off its bottom lip.
Things you can find (at least at times) in the midwater. Gorgeous shot of a periphylla jelly. A couple of an alluroteuthis squid (with some color changing effects), and one of a plunderfish. Dive 793 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
There is a large jelly with a purpleish brownish colored bell and very long purple arms extending from it swimming in dark water
There is a large jelly with a purpleish brownish colored bell and very long purple arms extending from it swimming in dark water
looking at the underside of the bell of the jelly that is yellowish and striated in color with purple arms emanating from the center
There is a large jelly with a purpleish brownish colored bell and very long purple arms extending from it swimming in dark water
Stygiomedusa!!! AKA Giant phantom jelly. They are not very common to see, and SOI saw two back to back! These guys get to be huge. The bell can be 1 meter across, and arms up to 10 meters long! Dive 793 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
There is a start shaped crinoid radiating out from a central disc. Each arm has feather like structures
An arm has feather like structures that are brown in color with little pink areas along the pinules that are worms
An arm has feather like structures that are brown in color with little pink areas along the pinules that are worms. The grey stick like animals on the back arm pinules are amphipods/isopods
An arm has feather like structures that are brown in color with little pink areas along the pinules that are worms. There is a stick like amphipod/isopod that is grey in color with antennae and multiple pairs of legs
This stalked crinoid had all kinds of commensal organisms. Crew said the pink animals were flatworms, and then there all the isopods vs amphipods (not the greatest at telling them apart). Dive 790 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
There is a large glass sponge with a ruffled top and holes along it surface on the left-hand side. There is a rocky outcrop with multiple small peach covered anemones and standing tall above it is one large white anemone with its stalk having a striated appearance and its tentacles extended into the water.
There is a large glass sponge with a ruffled top and holes along it surface on the left-hand side. Standing tall above it is one large white anemone with its stalk having a striated appearance and its tentacles extended into the water.
The stalk of the anemone is white and striated.
There is a large white anemone with its stalk having a striated appearance and its tentacles extended into the water.
This anemone stood out as different from the rest of them. Even the stock of the anemone with its striated appearance was interesting. Dive 790 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
There is a large glass sponge with two openings on a rocky outcrop to the left, the rest of the rocky out top is covered in peach/orange anemones
A closeup of the inside of one of the openings to the glass sponge. The surface is covered in holes that allows the water to go through
Two white anemones that are leaning over to the right. Large flat oral disc surrounded by tentacles. Attached to rocky outcrop
There is a funky long isopod with antennae and standing up off the glass sponge surface on skinny legs
On dive 790, SOI saw this lovely outcrop covered in anemones with a large funky shaped glass sponge. On zoom, there was a cool isopod on the glass sponge. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
A whitish pink soft coral with a mushroom like base appearance what gas multiple polyps with tentacles branching into the water column
A small polychete worm on top of a glass sponge
There are several peach anemones on top of a rocky area. At the base of the one farthest to the left is a sea spider with its legs drawn close as it is feeding on the anemone. In the mid right side is a striped fish
There is peach anemone with its tentacles retracted on top of a rocky area. At the base to the left is a sea spider with its legs drawn close as it is feeding on the anemone.
A pretty white mushroom coral, a polychete worm on a glass sponge. Then you have a couple pucnogonid sea spiders feeding on anemones. These sea spiders looks a little different than the ones we normally see. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
Dive 790 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
There is a purple octopus with large fins sitting on top of the sea floor
There is a purple octopus with large fins sitting on top of the rocky sea floor
Floating in the water column is a red gelatinous ctenophore that is oval-shaped. It has rows of rainbow ctenes running down its body
Several branches carrying dozens of zooanthids with her tentacles retracted. In front of dark water with little flex of marine snow floating through it
Got a couple more cirroctopus. They are just the cephalopod of the expedition! Also a beautiful ctenophore (lampocteis?), and a lovely zoom on some zooanthids that have retracted and surrounded by marine snow. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
A large orange colored sea star with black bands on the top of each arm, sitting on a sandy sea floor.
A large orange colored sea star with black bands on the top of each arm, sitting on a sandy sea floor.
A large orange colored sea star with black bands on the top of each arm, sitting on a sandy sea floor next to a ledge. A rock above it
Close up of one do the arms. Orange and textured with black band at the end
SOI saw so many of these Macroptychaster accrescens stars during this expedition. They are so cool looking and big! One was 60cm across. Looks like one of them might be eating. Dive 790. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
Dark brown sponge with bumpy surface and button hole shaped top opening. Sitting on Sandy sea floor
There is a sediment covered pink octopus facing forward with its arms curled behind its body on top of the sandy sea floor
There is a purpleish brownish colored octopus in a side profile with its arms curled up underneath it and one eye staring towards the camera sitting on top of the sandy sea floor. Scattered across the sea floor are a few pink brittle stars with very thin arms and a small round central desk
In the center of the photo is a long whitish pink worm wrapped up kind of like a spaghetti noodle. Next to the base of an orange anemone with tentacles reaching up into the water column on top of a sediment covered rock
Last photos from dive 788. I love the glass sponges they have been seeing, so funky. Two different octopuses, not certain on their genus. And a crazy large nemertean worm next to an anemone. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
There are hundreds of small pink krill swimming around in front of a dark blue water background.
There are dozens of small pink krill swimming around in front of a dark blue water background.
There are small pink krill swimming around in front of a dark blue water background.
Dive 788 - got some nice shots while SuBastian were surrounded by Antarctic krill. Was so very cool to see. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social
[2] Erin Easton Ph.D. has just completed a month long expedition, exploring the deep-water regions surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula with Schmidt Ocean Institute. Find out more about the #AntarcticClimateConnections expedition here: oceancensus.org/expeditions/...
I swear I heard this periphylla say, "oh no, they're staring! Gotta cover the important bits!" @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
This expedition ends in a few min. Next one runs Feb. 20-March 28th in South Sandwhich Islands
Fish eggs! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
The snailfish was collected, at 1964m, with a net! 👏 pilots! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
Nice snailfish! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
I'm not sure if that's a nudibranch or a sea cuke, but check out those 2 worms! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
Someone please tell me, is the floppy part something this pycnogonid is eating, or is that part of its face?! @andyantarctica.bsky.social? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
A red amphipod that looks like a rolly poly balled up.
Red octopus with tentacles curled around the body.
Dark colored isopod with two shining triangular eyes.
Brownish gelatinous blob.
Amphipod, octo, isopod, & sea cucumber. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
Squid scars. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
Oh, the horror to have icky barnacles stuck to you! 😬 Poor pycnogonid. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
Do you have snacks?
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 796 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
They're on the way back up. Last dive for this expedition begins 5am (UTC-3). Nice zoom on a poralia. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 794 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
