Stalked sponge looking like a car headlight.

Remarkable white sponge with brown crinoids, pink brittle stars, and a pink crinoid in the lower right. The sponge is attached to a rock outcrop.

A closeup of the white sponge with the base of a brown mobile crinoid and a pink brittle star.

A large white trumpet sponge and a pink crinoid on a boulder.

A striking photo of the hair-like base of a white glass sponge, a red crinoid and pink crinoid on the sponge.

Base of a red crinoid with yellow bottom on a large white sponge.

A white sponge with an associated pink crinoid.

Looking into a yellow stalked sponge with what appear to be tens if not hundreds of pink brittle stars. The rock bottom is barely visible in the image.

Looking into a yellow stalked sponge with what appear to be tens if not hundreds of pink brittle stars. The rock bottom is barely visible in the image.

A large white sponge and numerous small white corals.

A glass sponge with a small brittle star.

A large white sponge with numerous crinoids, a few brittle stars, and white squat lobster. A bamboo coral is on the left of the image.

A glass sponge with a small red gastropod shell.

Looking down on a venus flower basket sponge that is swept in a circle by periodic tidal currents.

Beautiful glass sponge with white chrysogorgia coral, and squat lobsters.

A circular glass sponge.

Glass sponges, chrysogorgia corals, and a black coral on the right edge of the image

A glass vase sponge with a large urchin and three red squat lobsters on a rock bottom.

A whtie sponge with what seems to be a number of filaments anchoring it to the bottom. An orange black whip coral to the left and a number of other glass sponges.

A large white sponge, numerous types of coral, an orange anemone, a large orange squat lobster, and a large orange squat lobster.

A venus flower basket sponge with a red entrapped shrimp.

A geometric lattice work of white coral with extended delicate polyps.

A large orange squat lobster within a white coral lattice work. Note the delicate extended polyps.

A large white sponge. The stalked creature with and red object with white spots are interesting but not able to be resolved.

Closeup of a large white sponge.

Four different widely dispersed corals and a large venus flower basket sponge.

A stalked glass sponge with a small brittle star at its base.

A gray encrusting sponge with a tube worm below and a translucent tentacled anemone to the right.

Base of a glass sponge with a white brittle star, hydroids, and a polychaete worm in lower left center.

Papa sponge, mama sponge and baby sponges. A group of stalked glass sponges with a number of bottle brush corals visible and a red anthomastus coral. A wide variety of other fauna are also visible.

Stalked white glass sponges and a variety of corals are seen in this image.

A large stalked glass sponge dominates this image. A variety of corals and other fauna are also visible.

A glass sponge, a large yellow crinoid, a bottle brush black coral, and a primnoid coral as well as other black corals, sponges, and other fauna are seen in this image. A very diverse community.

White stalked glass sponges, two yellow feather star crinoids, and a large orange octocoral whip coral are seen in this image.

Round glass sponge with very long external "spikes". A yellow paramuricid coral is in foreground with associated brittle star.

Closeup of the texture of a gray encrusting sponge.

A stalked glass sponge with a brownish hue, a yellow feather star crinoid, white stony corals, and a whip coral that seems to have been overcome by parasitic hydroids.

A large white stalked glass coral o n a boulder in a boulder field.

A bizarrely shaped horizontally growing glass sponge.

A white relatively ugly sponge attached to the seafloor with hair-like appendages.

A glass sponge growing horizontally from a vertical rock face that has been colonized by zoanthids.

A large venus flower basket sponge and a red stalked sea lily crinoid.

Stalk of a large dead sponge used as habitat by a multitude of brittle stars.

A spear-tip shaped glass sponge witha group of brittle stars about the base, but apparently none climbing the sponge.

A vase sponge gwowing on a mound of material in the midst of an area of volcanic sand seafloor.

A small stalked glass sponge.

A stalked glass sponge with brittle stars clinging to its top. The stalk is appears colonized by hydroids.

A gray amorphous sponge and a white, nearly invisible stalked sea lily crinoid on a rock .

A beautiful venus flower basket sponge and a large pink crinoid. A cane- shaped stalk is covered with hydroids on the bottom right.

Looking down into the top of a venus flower basket sponge.