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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.IFE Hercules ROV collecting corals in a 'forest' of bamboo whip coralson Balanus Seamount.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. ROPOS capturing bubbles from the seafloorat Champagne vent site. The plastic tube is 45 cm (18 in) long.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Sampling hydrothermal vent fluids at Cavevent, using the Hot Fluid Sampler (HFS). The white coating on the rocks isbacterial mat. The sampling nozzel is 25 cm (10 in).
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Chemosynthetic microbial mats coverred algae and coral (which are photosynthetic). Hydrothermal vent and coralreef communities are overlapping here at 190 meters, something none of thescientists on the Submarine Ring
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. On the summit of East Diamante (170 mwater depth), all signs of hydrothermal venting have disappeared. Softcorals (~10-15 cm tall) and tropical fish share theparadise we named Aquarium.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. The top of one of the central domes in Maugcaldera, covered with several different types of corals, sponges (whiteencrusting towers), algaes. Notice the beautiful lilac anemone near the top(nearly 30 cm, 12 in) hidin
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Geoff Lebon (foreground) and Ed Baker(background) are removing plume water from the CTD bottles after a tow-yo.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. This plankton net is being deployed to collectnear-surface plankton in Maug caldera. The net is about2 m (6.5 ft) long and has a mesh size of 236 microns (0.25 mm or .01 inch).
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Left to right: Verena Tunnicliffe, Kim Juniper, Keith Shepherd and Bob Holland are gathered around the ROPOS console,identifying vent species on the seafloor.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. ROPOS deployment from the fantail of theTHOMPSON.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. ROPOS was covered in sulfur droplets after itsclose encounter with sulfur, rocks and ash at Brimstone Pit.
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A benthic sled which is used to sample the ocean bottom for various types of fish and invertebrates. Lowered to the ocean floor on a wire, the sled slidesalong the bottom on its side runners. Organisms and materials that are collectedare swept into
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The Eye-in-the-Sea is a specially-designed camera that was lefton the sea floor by the submersible for one or two days at a time torecord the surrounding bioluminescence withoutthe bright lights and loud noise of the submersible.
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Deck-hand on the R/V SEWARD JOHNSON crouching in front of the JohnsonSea-Link II submersible as it is launched from the ship.
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The large aluminum frame of the neuston net is 1 meter high and 3 meters long.Here the net is being deployed off the starboard side of the R/V SEWARDJOHNSON. The neuston net is designed to sample the organisms living at thevery surface layer of the o
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Katrin Iken (left) and Bodil Bluhm move deep-sea mud from the trawlnet to a bucket. The benthic scientists will sieve the mud to findcreatures within it for additional research.
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Mike Nicholson (left) and Joe Caba (right) move the ROVinto position for deployment.
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The multinet, a device which captures small creatures in the waterat different depths of the water column, is deployed off the back of the Healy.
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The photoplatform is deployed into icy waters.
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The ROV begins its descent into the deep waters of the Canada Basin.
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