A remarkable goiter sponge (Heterochone calyx) and a large, but smaller white vase sponge. Goiter sponges can exceed one meter in diameter.

Closeup of goiter sponge (Heterochone calyx). Goiter sponges can exceed one meter in diameter.

Large white sponge with sculpted appearance

White vase sponge providing habitat for crabs

Large brown goiter sponge

Large brown goiter sponge and small white starfish

White sponges with white starfish

Whitish yellow vase sponge providing habitat for hagfish

White ruffle sponge with pink squat lobsters

A variety of sponges on a small mound

A yellow vase sponge with a crab crawling on it and a variety of life including holothurians, small corals, tube worms, squat lobsters, etc.

Looking straight down into the smooth interior of a yellow vase sponge with a small red coral.

A large white sponge housing a brittle star

A white vase sponge providing habitat for hydroids and a large number of small pink starfish.

A white sponge with a crab using it for habitat.

A white sponge with crab and a flatfish at its base (possibly same sponge as image expl2866 from a different angle and view point).

White knobby sponge with pink crab

Looking down into large yellow goiter sponge with crab in interior.

Large goiter sponge with crab in interior.

Base of large goiter sponge

Large white vase sponges with shrimp in interior and legs of large crab visible at base.

Small stalked translucent sponges and odd appearing grey and white holothurians? Some feather duster tube worms visible.

A large scrape mark on the seafloor.

A variety of sponges, starfish, and unidentified translucent animals (with single white stripes in center of picture)

A small mound with red coral stalks, translucent holothurians, shrimp, and urchins all visible in the field of view.

Feather duster tube worms with white tubes.

A mound with scallops, urchins, a crab, and other life forms.

A mound with scallops, white to translucent holothurians, an orange fish, and small corals. The brown circular object in the center of the photo might be a small jellyfish floating above the bottom.

A flatfish, scallops, a holothurian, and small corals with associated brittle stars.

A white starfish, holothurians, an urchin and an orange fish on a mud bottom.

A reddish brown anemone with white spots with a crab hiding, many holothurians, and a few shrimp on a mud bottom.

A mound with many life forms including a large scallop at the top, small red corals some with associated brittle stars, translucent holothurians, a large orange anemone, and what appears to be a medium-sized sponge ( the white mass in left center).

Mound with sea squirts (ascidians), small red corals, tube worms, a large scallop, translucent holothurians, and a white starfish.

A cnidarian (soft coral?) bent over in a strong current. The linear feature in the left foreground is probably fishing line - marine debris.

A jellyfish hovering above a mound with a variety of life forms including a flatfish, scallops, vase sponge, small red corals, a large brittle star, and a few small squat lobsters.

Mud substrate with small ledges, small red anemones, and small tube worms. Look carefully to find the claws of a galatheid crab.

Marine debris - vegetable material or plastic strapping material?

Long siphonophore

Mud substrate with a pink anthomastus coral and white holothurians

A large red jellyfish with a whitish pink soft octocoral

A large red jellyfish with a whitish pink soft octocoral

A red jellyfish with a deep sea eel-like fish swimming towards it.

A beautiful pink jellyfish with tentacles extended

A beautiful pink jellyfish with tentacles extended

Siphonophore with tentacles extended

A beautiful small jellyfish looking like a far away galaxy.

A large red jellyfish with tentacles extended.

A large red jellyfish with tentacles extended, numerous white translucent holothurians, and other life forms on a mud substrate.

A siphonophore hovering above the bottom.

A siphonophore hovering above the bottom with tentacles extended.