A beautiful Iridogorgia sp.

Looking down on numerous corals, sponges, and other species.

Sponges, corals,and what appears to be broken dead corals on sea floor.

A ghost net hung-up and left. Trawling on deep ocean seamounts can destroy deep ocean fauna including deep sea corals, sponges, and other species.

Beautiful spiraling Iridorgia sp.

Yellow and white sponges and an orange anemone.

Iridogorgia sp. with a white sponge in the background.

Iridogorgia sp. with barnacles growing at the tip.

Barnacles growing on an Iridorgia coral.

Closeup of a beautiful yellow sponge showing the internal structure.

Brittle stars on unidentified coral

Unidentified coral on left with brittle stars and Iridogorgia sp. on right.

Paragorgia sp. coral bush with crinoids and brittle stars.

Paragorgia sp. coral bush with large white sea stars

Paragorgia sp. coral bush

Paragorgia sp. coral bush

Paragorgia sp. coral bush with a large brisingid sea star.

Paragorgia sp. coral bush

Paragorgia sp. with polyps extended. Look hard and find the brittle stars.

White Paragorgia sp. with brittle stars

A strange looking assemblage of brittle stars, crinoids, and enveloping life form.

White Paragorgia sp. coral with brisingid sea star

A translucent purple brown sea star

White Paragorgia coral with brittle stars

Unidentified coral

A beautiful red ctenophore fishing. Dive 13.

A beautiful red ctenophore fishing. Dive 13.

A beautiful red ctenophore fishing. Dive 13.

A beautiful red ctenophore fishing. Dive 13.

Iridogorgia sp. in center with bamboo whip coral

A small Iridogorgia sp. in center, bamboo whip corals and a large yellow sponge.

A large yellow sponge and a delicate brittle star.

A white vase sponge, a yellow sponge, and numerous corals with brittle stars. Dive 13.

A soft coral Anthomastus sp. in the center of the image, a delicate vaselike sponge, and unidentified coral colonies.

Rock covered with corallium.

A parasol coral, Metallogorgia sp., amongst sponges, a bottlebrush black coral, and various unidentified corals.

Parasol corals, Metallogorgia sp., on a rock outcrop.

A brittle star on a parasol coral, Metallogorgia sp.

ROV Hercules' starboard manipulator arm grasps an Acanella bamboo coral.

A small grotto of corals, sponges, and brittle stars.

Paragorgia sp. coral being overgrown by zooanthids. A large brisingid sea star is in the lower left and brittle stars are wrapped in the Paragorgia.

Orange whip coral with attached sea anemone hanging vertically.

Orange deep sea coral with polyps extended and three attached barnacles.

Squat lobster on black rock outcrop

Colony of mushroom coral with polyps extended.

Orange anemone with white sponge on black rock outcrop. Perhaps gray sponge in upper right of image.

Tripod fish

A surpisingly orange-colored halosaur over a black rock outcrop.

A blue antimora (Antimora rostrata)

Chimaera or rat fish (Chimaera monstrosa)