A bamboo coral bush with a large reddish shrimp.

Bamboo coral, a gorgonian coral, and numerous small gray sponges.

A translucent anemonme, pycnogonid crab and tube worms in lower left, small sponges, a small bamboo coral, and a hydroid looking like a small tree in the lower right.

Bamboo whip coral and relatively large sponges (for this area) on a rock outcrop partially covered by white sand.

Small green octocorals colonizing a dead coral bush.

Small green octocorals colonizing a dead coral bush, a small bamboo coral bush , and small translucent octocorals. a White sponge is seen below the dead coral branch on the left.

A small bamboo coral in the background, small translucent octocorals in the foreground.

Translucent octocorals .

A long-stemmed iridogorgia coral.

Looking through the spiral form of an iridogorgia coral.

A spiraling iridigorgia coral

A large bamboo coral bush and bluish gray small sponges on a rock outcrop

A half-dead looking coral bush trunk with white octocoral growing on the branches.

Beautiful white octocoral polyps

A translucent alcyonacean coral

A translucent alcyonacean coral

A translucent alcyonacean coral growing on a vertical shaft

Brisingid starfish on rock outcrop

Large orange starfish on iron oxide stained outrcop

A bivalve shell in a pit in the sediment. Most of these pits have relatively coarse debris lining the bottom.

Purple holothurian on a woodfall on an iron oxide stained rock outcrop

Translucent blue holothurian

A purple translucent holothurian on a sandy seafloor

A purple translucent holothurian on a sandy seafloor

Large brisingid starfish

Four purplish red holothurians in site at once. This many animals of any sort other than the hydrothermal vent sites was a rare site on the Cayman Trench expedition.

Swimming Spanish dancer holothurian.

Graceful white swimming holothurian over sandy substrate

Large brittle star on seafloor

Central body disk of large brittle star

White orange star fish with arms extended above surface

Reddish purple holothurian with what appears to be a large dorsal fin.

Reddish purple holothurian with what appears to be a large dorsal fin.

Dung trails on the seafloor. Holothurians and other creatures such as acorn worms plow up the surface of the seafloor. Over thousands of years, it is probable that the whole surface of the seafloor is disturbed by such biological activity.

A lone brittle star on a sand and mud substrate

A lone white starfish next to a circular shaped dung heap.

A white starfish -partial view - on sandy substrate

A white starfish on sandy substrate

A white brittle star on a sand and mud substrate

Reddish purple holothurian with what appears to be a large dorsal fin.

Reddish purple holothurian with what appears to be a large dorsal fin.

White gastropod in what seems to be the detritus in the bottom of a depression.

Purple holothurian on white sand substrate

Purple translucent holothurian proceeding to launch from seafloor

Purple translucent holothurian swimming above seafloor

Sand excrement seen in gut of purple translucent holothurian while swimming

Purple translucent holothurian on seafloor. Unclear what the black lineal feature is that the holothurian seems to be on top of.

Ugly fat reddish pink holothurian on sand and shell sediment draped over rock outcrop

Unidentified translucent lifeform seen as ROV ascending to surface

Unidentied translucent lifeform seen as ROV ascending to surface