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A cirrate octopus floats like a bell in mid-water, feeding on plankton.

Image ID: nur01010, Voyage To Inner Space - Exploring the Seas With NOAA Collect
Location: Temperate Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cape Hatteras.
Photo Date: 1989 September
Photographer: T. Schaff
Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); North Carolina State University

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