🌊 The 2025 NEPDEP – Seamounts & Mapping Expedition (Sept 4–18) has wrapped up! The Council of the Haida Nation, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, DFO, ONC & partners explored seamounts, vents & cold seeps off Vancouver Island & Haida Gwaii.
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#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. Dive Y00043. Final shot for the dive. A beautiful opisthoteuthis flapjack octopus. 🥰 #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration
#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. Dive Y00043. Tanner crab, sea star with a beautiful zoom, and this weird gastropod… had amphipods, weird clear blobs and an anemone on it, but no idea what type of gastropod. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration
#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. Dive Y00043. That anemone it’s just so pretty and with a zoom, “resting fish face” thornyhead, and an eel pout with a corallimorph. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration
#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. A tanner crab, a shot of a hagfish mouth with a crab, a flatfish, and a demosponge covered in amphipods with what appears to be a radiolarian (or foraminifera) next to it. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration
More from #NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. A thornyhead zoom so close you can see sensory appendages on its face, an anemone with something weird going on (😂double decker), and an eelpout. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration
#NEPDEP is diving on South Winona Ridge today off the Canadian pacific coast. A rough tail skate, looks to be a eelpout, a thornyhead fish with a sea star, and a beautiful anemone. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration
🧪🦑 Last summer, we captured incredible selfie footage of @roposrov.bsky.social, took ground-breaking temperature measurements with an extra long probe & spotted a rare squid with eggs with the NEPDEP 2024 team.
Read about it on our website!
tinyurl.com/bdd3ws4a
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photo shows a large tangled trawl net full of deep sea life rolling around the sea floor.
photo shows a large tangled trawl net full of deep sea life rolling around the sea floor.
photo shows a large tangled trawl net full of deep sea life rolling around the sea floor.
photo shows a large tangled trawl net full of deep sea life rolling around the sea floor.
This still haunts me, found by @roposrov.bsky.social with #NEPDEP back in August. HUGE net, just rolling around on the sea floor collecting everything in its path.😬 #marinedebris #fishinggear
🧪🦑 It was a great pleasure to support the NEPDEP 2024 expedition and to work with the NEPDEP Science Team for another year!
Cherisse Du Preez is a long-time friend, and we always look forward to expeditions with her group!
22/ 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific #nepdep
🧪🦑 Some highlights and rare sights from our 2nd week of dives!
Skate migration, forest of rare corals on extended summit of NEPDEP 58, young Stygiomedusa jelly & blobfish eggs!
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🧪🦑 Here are some stills from the last 3 days in the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA from ~800-300 m depth!
We'll be diving later today & revisiting the same 4 sites for the rest of the week!
Keep checking the schedule for changes: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024.
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🧪🦑 On the way up from the skate nursery on Day 5, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team sprung to action when they spotted and managed to catch video of a Gonatus squid brooding its eggs!
See UTC Time: 22:32:14
tinyurl.com/Gonatus
We've since found out that this is rare footage!
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🧪🦑 It's Day 7, and we're on bottom at the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA!
Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
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🧪🦑 Here are some stills from today in at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network from ~600-300 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
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🧪🦑 It's Day 6, and we're on bottom at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network!
It's both ours and our science team's first time ever exploring this area!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
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🧪🦑 Here are some stills from today, at the NEPDEP 58 Seamount skate nursery at ~1600 m depth!
Tomorrow, we'll be diving later in the day.
See you then!
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🧪🦑 Today is Day 5, and we're on bottom at the NEPDEP 58 skate nursery!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
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🧪🦑 Here are some stills from 2 of our first 4 dive days, in the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge MPA at ~200 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
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🧪🦑 It's Day 1 and we are now live! Today, we're exploring the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef MPA!
Watch on the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
or on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project's Facebook page.
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🧪 It has auto- focus & tracking, which means that we can tell it to find an eye on a fish & it will track the eye & continue to capture sharp imagery of it if the fish swims away.
We installed it for our last mission & are now using it for all our imagery!
9/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
🧪 Within this rectangular housing is our new camera, the Nikon Z9.
It's the only camera that has the ability to take 8K, high-definition video!
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The mechanism that makes the LARS (Launch & Recovery System) function consists of the HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit), the level wind and the cable drum.
Here, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team is diligently connecting the power cables and hydraulic hoses, which...
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🧪 Our USBL pole will hang off the side of the Tully. It receives acoustic signals from the beacon mounted on @roposrov.bsky.social.
This information, together with the GPS & position of the ship, gives us the relative position of @roposrov.bsky.social.
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🧪 You can read about all of our baggage (🛄!) in last year’s thread (if you also have X - sorry),
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but this year, we’ll share some new things with you.
4/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
