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Polychaetes at 2,530 meters, Mata Fitu, NE Lau Basin
Polychaetes at 2,530 meters, Mata Fitu, NE Lau Basin
Video of Polychaetes at 2,530 meters, Mata Fitu, NE Lau Basin
A sediment sample is taken among a dense colony of live mussels at Niua North.
A sediment sample is t...
A shrimp with eggs visible beneath its translucent carapace.
A shrimp with brain ma...
An enormous number of Opaepele shrimp have colonized West Mata since eruption in 2009.
An enormous number of...
At Mata Ua, a cluster of stalked barnacles filter feed by waving their fan-like cirri
At Mata Ua, a cluster...
Black smoker chimneys on the second ROV dive at the Mata Ua hydrothermal site at around 2,100 meters
Black smoker chimneys...
Boca Snowblower Vent @ Axial
Boca the undersea snow...
Bubbling sulfur chimneys at the Niua North hydrothermal site at around 800 meters
Bubbling sulfur chimne...
Gravid shrimp at 800 meters, Niua North, NE Lau Basin
Gravid shrimp at 800 m...
Huge numbers of scaleworms were observed on the seafloor and (as seen here) free-swimming
Huge numbers of scalew...
Taking sample of new lava @ Axial
I'll have a piece...
Black Smoker @ Axial
No joke, Liquid smoke.
Retrieving Bongo
Our researchers retrie...
Retrieving CTD
Our researchers retrie...
Polychaetes at 2,530 meters, Mata Fitu, NE Lau Basin
Polychaetes at 2,530 m...
Scientists look for a good location to sample the unusually thick bacterial mats
Scientists look for a...
Scientists use a temperature probe before collecting more samples of the mats
Scientists use a tempe...
The Quest 4000 ROV manipulator arm is used to probe the manganese-encrusted mats.
The Quest 4000 ROV man...
The ROV uses a scoop net to collect mussels at Niua North
The ROV uses a scoop n...
Tubeworms!
They are so chemosynth...
Thousands of shrimp swim up off the bottom when the ROV bumps a rock at West Mata,
Thousands of shrimp sw...
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