Yellow Picasso sponges (Staurocalyptus sp.)

Yellow Picasso sponges (Staurocalyptus sp.) at 1330 meters water depth.

Glassy coral (Chrysogorgia sp.) at 2486 meters water depth.

Prickly sea star (Benthopecten sp.) and brittle stars at 2461 meters water depth .

Barnacles attached to a rock at 2254 meters water depth.

Orange bushy coral (Trissopathes sp.) and octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) at 1973 meters water depth.

Orange bushy coral (Trissopathes sp.) and octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) at 1973 meters water depth.

Orange bushy coral (Trissopathes sp.) and octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) at 1973 meters water depth.

Gold coral (Acanthogorgia) and bottle-bushy coral (unidentified black coral) on the Davidson Seamount at 1957 meters depth.

Orange anemone (Actinostola sp.) at 1958 meters water depth.

Orange anemone (Actinostola sp.).

Crinoids (Florometra serratissima) and orange brisingid on a black coral (Lillipathes sp.) at 1950 meters water depth.

White coral?

Stony corals (Order Scleractinia) at 1950 meters water depth.

Stony corals (Order Scleractinia) at 1950 meters water depth.

Stony corals (Order Scleractinia) at 1950 meters water depth.

White sponge

Yellow ruffle sponge at 1930 meters depth.

Yellow ruffle sponge.

Bubblegum coral and white sponge

White ruffle sponge.

Basalt boulder field with sparse life

Bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) growing next to a large sponge.

Lava tube? Pillow lava?

A blob sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus).

Rockfish nestled in the branches of a gorgonian soft coral, tentatively identified as a Primnoa sp.

A basketstar (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis)

Deep sea coral (Paragorgia arborea pacifica)

Soft coral

Deep sea coral (Paragorgia arborea pacifica)

Deep sea coral (Paragorgia arborea pacifica)

Soft coral with brittle stars

Deep sea coral (Paragorgia arborea pacifica)

Rockfish and large holothurian

Dead broken coral on seafloor

Sea anemone on continental slope

Lasers and sampling arm of ROV

Marine debris - fishing line and wire on seafloor

Marine debris - a soft drink can on the seafloor

Tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus)

Marine debris - lost fishing gear, possibly a crab pot and its mooring.

Unidentified organism (greenish balls) with the crinoids Florometra serratissima . Appear to be on man-made object as smooth edges of oval shaped object are apparent.

Deep sea scallops

Basketstars (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis)

The brittle stars, Ophiura sarsi, often carpet the seafloor of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. They can move remarkably fast.

The soft coral Plumarella longispina

Crab and small green shrimp living in a yellow vase sponge

Starfish

Spiny Red Sea Star (Hippasteria spinosa)

Spiny Red Sea Star (Hippasteria spinosa)