Tripod fish coming in for a landing. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 754 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Catshark with indigestion? Looks uncomfortable. Nice big skate in the background. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 742 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Dang look at the rotundness of this Stomias! It doesn't need to eat for a month. Gliding through like a stuffed burrito. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 742 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Found a cute Muusoctopus tippy-tapping on by. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 736 part 2 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Trichiuridae. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 736 part 2 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Skate catching a fish. Mostly you see haboob but you can tell by the way it hunches. He said yoink. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 740 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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According to my observations these are the types of inspectors ROV pilots must contend with while on the job. I don't have 1st hand experience but if anyone wants to let me play with one... Congrio dorado (Genypterus blacodes). @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 755 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Triton snail laying eggs. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 755 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
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Thinking about anglers & remembered this one from @schmidtocean.bsky.social 759 part 2. I think the ID may be Ceratias tentaculatus? They spent a nice bit of time filming her & is worth watching out the whole encounter. #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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The #ChileMargin2024 science team discovered dozens of red cusk-eels in a bushy thicket of tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of central Chile. The study was published Ecology on 10/18; the research was supported by @schmidtocean.bsky.social & funded by NSF.
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/commerc...
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That's a really awesome looking Chimaera! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 742 #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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A whole lot going on there. 2 pycnogonids on top of a squishy thing (anemone?) on top of a tube worm taxi. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 739 #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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Fish or fishes?
Fish is correct for singular & plural versions of a group of the same fish. One fish, two fish, we’re all good fish. But when Dr. Suess started throwing red, blue, & black together, well, dear reader, those are fishes, because they’re a mix of different species.
#ChileMargin2024
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A Monday meditation, guided by fish.
Be kind to yourself and others.
There’s so much going on; you don’t have to process everything all at once.
Remember what you want to do this week.
Find quiet; focus.
Hydrate.
Make something cool.
Breathe.
🎥 #ChileMargin2024
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Libidoclaea granaria 🦀 from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 741 #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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Congrio negro (Genypterus maculatus) from #schmidtoceaninstitute dive 755 #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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🎶Should I stay, or should I go now?
If I go, there will be trouble
And if I stay, it will be double
So come on and let me know 🎶
The tripod fish said, “stay,” & the brittle star said, “GO,” when ROV SuBastian descended on their little spot of the seafloor! #ChileMargin2024
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Hang on like a brittle star! We know it’s Monday & there are meetings, emails, & mountains of dire news to comb through, but there’s also a vast & understudied deep Ocean. Let us distract you with weird & wonderful sea creatures! #ChileMargin2024, spotted at 420 m: schmidtocean.org/scientists-d...
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How does an animal w/no mouth & no gut survive? W/a little help from friends & a specialized organ, a trophosome! Tubeworms extract nutrients fr special bacteria that live inside this organ. Over time, tubeworms form reef-like structures, supporting animals like these red cusk-eels. #ChileMargin2024
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Ghost gear sighting fr #ChileMargin2024 expedition, 400 m. According to researchers, fishing vessels lose two percent of their gear every year. How do you count what is lost in a place few can travel to see? In 2024, Elena Kazamia broke it down for Hakai Magazine. hakaimagazine.com/videos-visua...
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Catsharks are extremely sensitive to electric fields, which explains how they sense their environment. They detect meals even when buried in sediment. While they aren’t actively generating electricity, they're passively detecting it in the waters around them. #ChileMargin2024 expedition, 402m
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You said anything, so any clue what this is? I'm heavily leaning worm of some kind, but haven't found anyone yet who has seen this before & can tell me what it is. Filmed off the coast of Chile from a recent #SchmidtOcean expedition. #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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A pink bamboo coral going up the middle with the tissue eaten away under the fuzzy brown sea spider. The sea spider has 8 fuzzy brown arms
A orangish brown sea pen coral rising up off the sea floor. It has multiple polyps, and each polyp has 8 tentacles.
A closeup of the brown polyps. You can see the mouth in the center of the polyp with 8 tentacles radiating out. There are tiny tendrils coming off the tentacles.
Large red crab sitting on the sea floor and looks ‘dusty’ covered in sediment and hydroids.
From dive 753 of SOI. Not your typical sea spider pycnogonid hanging onto the bamboo coral. I wonder if it was eating some of the polyps? A beautiful umbellula sea pen with a zoom on one of the polyps so you can see the mouth and tentacle details. And a large crab #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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Black coral fan that is tan in color branching out from Central point against a black backdrop
Close-up of some black coral branches with the polyp sticking out and it appears to be mucus stringing off some of them against a black backdrop
Super close-up of some black coral polyps on the branches and what appears to be mucus coming off some of them
This is a beautiful close-up of a black coral, heteropathes I believe. You don’t usually get to see such a nice zoom and detail on the polyps. From SOI dive 753 back in November. @corallab.bsky.social #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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An acorn worm going diagonally across the photo, with the head in the upper left. It is translucent and Orange colored at the head, yellow in the middle and clear the rest of the way. Towards the back end you can see the sediment in the digestive tract
A close up of a translucent white anemone like animal. The oral disk is in the center with tentacles radiating out and tipped in solid white
In the center, floating above the sea floor is a colonial siphonophore that looks like a mass of orange ribbons with a white tuft on top.
On top of the seafloor is a green proboscis of a spoonworm that is being retracted. The forked ends are twisting as they move.
Last photos from dive 752 of SOI. Lots of soft things. Different kind of acorn worm than earlier, a zoom on a corallimorph (almost looks like it’s practicing its duck face), a dandelion siphonophore, and a neat shot of a retracting spoonworm. #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife #Siphonophriend
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A small octopus in the center of the screen sitting on the seafloor. The mantle is white with two black eyes looking at the camera. The arms are purple with a thin purple membrane going between each one
A star shaped sea pen coral rising up off the seafloor. It is brownish red in color. The polyps extend out from a central point and branch into fine tendrils
Close-up of the sea pen coral. You are looking at one of the polyps that has eight tentacles coming off from a central place that contains its mouth. Reddish brown in color
A reddish orange sea star that looks like it is slightly elevated up off the seafloor. There are rocks coming up off the floor in the background. On the right hand side there is a light pink seas star and a white spiky sea cucumber
My friend, the graneledone again! Some other cool SOI sightings from dive 752 was an umbellula sea pen that they zoomed so you could see the mouth of a polyp, and a sea star. #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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A white cup coral coming over rock face with translucent tentacles tipped in white. The rock face looks like it’s covered in hairy-like sediment
A purple and white spot octopus walking along the seafloor. It has purple whipping extending between its arms. The mantle is white in color and there is an eye facing the camera.
A sea Cucumber swimming against the dark background. The animal is translucent and you can see its digestive tract filled with sediment. It has modified tube feet along its edges
A people octopus facing the camera, perched up on its arms off the seafloor. There’s a thin membrane extending between its arms. You can see one of its eyes and it’s siphon
So many cool sightings on SOI dive 752. A snazzier than normal cup coral, little graneledone octopus (I have such a soft spot for them), swimming amperima sea cucumber, and another lovely octopus. Sure seems like they saw a ton of octopus this dive. #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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On the seafloor in the center of the photo is a large white anatomy. Tentacles extending circularly in all directions
Coming up off the seafloor is a peach ball shaped animal. A colonial siphonophore of some kind. Up above that is the arm of brittle star coming out of the sediment
In the center of the screen in the hollow of some rocks is a purple octopus. It’s arms are curling toward the center and have two rows of suckers going down. The mantle of the octopus is facing down and you can see one eye in the middle of the screen
you can see the translucent Head, mantle and thorax of an acorn worm resting on the sediment. The head and mantle are pink and color while the rest of it is white
SOI dial 752. That anatomy looks like a bloomin onion 😂 benthic siphonophore (odd dandelion maybe?), a lovely octopus, and a closeup of an acorn worm #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife #Siphonophriend
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Still SOI dive 752. Starting off with a spoonworm (really cool, I don’t usually get to see the body of them), a really neat glass sponge that I’m not positive the family or genus of, and then a heteropathes/hexapathes with closeup (ID by Jeremy Horowitz) #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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