Hydrothermal vents on Kawio Barat submarine volcano spew white mineral-laden fluids. Image captured more than 1,850 meters deep the Little Hercules ROV.

Hydrothermal vent area covered with white bacterial mat and hydrothermally altered rocks and minerals.

A stalagmite-like spire of mineral material precipitated from a hydrothermal vent.

Orange material covers rocks and sediments in a hydrothermal vent area.

A ridge of volcanic sands on Kawio Barat volcano.

Sulfur? iron oxide? orange bacteria? what is this covering?

Hydrothermally altered rock material.

A large purple anemone residing on angular volcanic rock boulder.

Looking down over a vertical cliff at a large purple anemone. A small holothurian is on the top of the ledge to the left of the anemone.

A large yellow anemone on a pillow lava.

Perhaps an anemone with translucent tentacles.

Closeup of animal seen in expl6121 . Appears to be long tentacles in a swirling tangle.

A brilliant purple anemone

A beautiful orange anemone

A beautiful orange anemone

A purple anemone, a reddish holothurian ( to left and below anemone), and a small white coral on a pillow lava

Tentacles of a purple sea anemone

Purple anemone next to what appears to be an eye of a super-camouflaged fish. Or perhaps just some weird reflective property of a rock.

Orange anemone on a rock outcrop

One of many sea anemones found on the outskirts of the Tempus Fugit vent site.

Orange anemone and white sponge growing from sediment carpeted sea floor.

A beautiful purple anemone

Anemone-octocoral symbiosis. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts.

Solitary stony cup coral with tentacles extended in feeding position. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts.

Solitary cup coral with tentacles extended

Galatheid squat lobster on an Anthomastus coral. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts.

White alcyonacean coral bush

White alcyonacean corals with small shrimp

Pennatulacean coral

Many armed Anthomastus coral

This black coral, in addition to the two galatheid crabs weighing it down, possessed strange tendrils hanging in the water column, seemingly wrapped around its stalk.

Antipatharian coral ("black coral") bush with galatheid crabs

Antipatharian coral ("black coral") bush

Small gorgonian coral and cup coral on rock surface

Close up on octocoral, likely a member of the family Primnoidae. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts.

Closeup of white primnoid gorgonian octocoral polyps with anemones

Primnoid coral bush with anemones and galatheid crab

Octocoral bush on rock outcrop. Small white coral, large urching and small squat lobster can also be found in the image.

Gorgonian coral bush with large squat lobster. A large urchin is to the left. Marine debris - a coil of fishing line is in the right foreground.

Gorgonian coral bush with large squat lobster and at least two anemones in branches to right. A small squat lobster is seen to the left high in the branches of the coral bush.

Extended octocoral polyps on branches of a coral bush.

A small bamboo coral buth with polyps extended. The bush appears to be being attacked by a parasitic colonial animal in the upper left center.

Looking into the center of a a feather star crinoid with a hydroid in the upper left. It is unclear if the thin white to clear appendages below the crinoid are .

A large red shrimp swimming over a large black coral bush.

Crab-octocoral symbiosis. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts.

White stylaster? coral

Close-up of primnoid octocoral polyps

Primnoid coral bush

Octocoral polyps extended

Red gorgonian Corallium? sp.