Looking back from the stempost the runs of copper are clearly visible.

With the ceiling planking eaten away the framing and hull curvature are clearly defined in the bow.

The magnificent rusticle hung off the stempost waiting for us to sample.

We recovered a bowl or large cup fragment from the concentration of ceramics in the stern.

The stem and beak of the 7000 ft shipwreck, an unknown vessel.

A close up of the wale and hawsehole at the top of the stem.

Jason surfaces carrying samples and artifacts.

Jake Schidner of West Florida University gingerly retrieves the compass.

The card of the compass is still intact revealing the manufacturer and date of the compass patent.

Rising over 10 meters off the seafloor, the bow and stowed anchors bear mute testimony to the 1942 torpedoing and sinking of the GULFOIL.

Although partially hidden by draping Lophelia the letters G U L F O I are still visible across the transom.

Large rusticles drip from the scarred hull of the GulfOil where the torpedo ripped through.

The stack was discovered intact resting beside the starboard hull. The aft side of the stack is facing up revealing the ladder and whistle.

Empty gun casings are scattered across the rear deck near the 4-inch gun mounted at the stern of the GULF OIL.

A lost anchor - just fouled? or possibly a shipwreck?

A lost anchor - just fouled? or possibly a shipwreck?

Photo mosaic of YP-389, a World War II patrol craft lost to submarine attack on June 19, 1942. Six sailors died in the attack and there were eighteen survivors .

A large purple acorn worm

A large purple acorn worm

White feather duster tube worm

White feather duster tube worm

Colony of small tube worms in vicinity of hydrothermal activity heavily stained by iron oxide.

Coral with an orange scaleworm.

Acorn worm with sand excrement pattern

Acorn worm with spiral sand excrement pattern

Arms of a brittle star that could easily be mistaken for a group of worms.

A scaleworm and barnacles with feeding tentacles extended.

An orange scaleworm

Barnacles and a large scaleworm.

A scaleworm with barnacles and a small gastropod.

Weird worms? Orange iron oxide would indicate proximity to a hydrothermal site.

Bristle worms?

A sipunculan worm (a peanut worm) on a pebbly substrate

An acorn worm

A yellowheaded bristle worm.

A whitish pink anemone that blends in with the sandy background.

A large orange anemone with yellow base on a rock outcrop.

A reddish pink anemone on a black rock outcrop with sandy patches.

delicate white coral with a yellowish orange anemone attached with a white base.

A white venus flytrap anemone with a white hard coral in the background and a small round white sponge.

A closeup of the white venus flytrap anemone.

A reddish purple anemone with white dots at the end of its tentacles.

A reddish purple anemone with white dots at the end of its tentacles.

Perhaps a cup coral with tentacles extended.

A pinkish red pompom anemone.

A red anemone with a yellow base.

Either a translucent anemone attached to a rock outcrop or a jellyfish hovering above the outcrop.

A pinkish anemone attached to a rock outcrop with much sand and mud in the vicinity.

A number of anemones attached to a snail.

A translucent anemone with white spots at the end of its tentacles.