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Gulf of Alaska 2004
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. Scientists crowd around the bio-boxes at the front of ALVIN eager to see what was collected on that day's dive.
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. Dr. Tom Shirley from the University ofAlaska at Faibanks communicating from the plot room to the bridge.
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. ALVIN being lifted onto the deck of WHOI R/V ATLANTIS by the A-frame, with swimmers Bruce Strickrott and SeanMcPeak (Chief ALVIN pilot and electronics technician respectively) working therecovery.
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. ALVIN and WHOI R/V ATLANTIS, swimmersBruce Strickrott and Sean McPeak (Chief ALVIN pilot and electronicstechnician respectively) working the recovery.
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. Multibeam image of Ely Seamount showing adeep caldera and lava flows.
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. Peter Etnoyer, Aurelie Shapiro, and Shinobu Okano inspect a large dead bamboo coral specimen brought to thesurface by ALVIN.
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Gulf of Alaska Expedition 2004. The CTD (conductivity, temperature, and depth)rosette is brought back on deck after having taken water samples and a profileof the water column.
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Gulf of Alaska Expedition 2004. Multibeam image of Denson Seamount,looking approximately NW. Our dive target was on the southeasternflank. The sea channel on the right that is about 3,200 m deep.
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Gulf of Alaska Expedition 2004. A cross sectional view through a fracturedpillow basalt. The outer curved surface is the chilled rind, and the wedgesthat radiate from the center are fractures caused by rapid cooling of moltenlava in the cold seawater
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Gulf of Alaska Expedition 2004. Lovely meter-tall stalked sponge with tinyshrimp as photographed from the Alvin porthole.
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Gulf of Alaska 2004 Expedition. Deep-sea spider crabs, likethis one, have long, spider-like legs and are a brilliant red. The crabswe collected had an average carapace length of about 62 mm and anaverage width of about 53 mm. We only caught three cr
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A small Paragorgia coral.
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Collecting a small Paragorgia coral on Dickins Seamount.
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A white primnoid coral.
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A large primnoid coral with a spectacular grouping of orange brittle stars.
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Paragorgia corals covered with brittle stars, small basket stars, and a largelithodid crab on the left. White primnoid corals are seen in the foreground and the stalk of a large bamboo coral is also seen in the center of the image.
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Large sponges and primnoid corals seen on the side of a seamount.
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A bamboo coral in the family Isididae.
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An out of focus purple medusae.
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A bamboo coral. The bright orange polyps obscure the bamboo coral's bonyskeleton.
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