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Aug 30
Sea anemone.
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Aug 30
The Johnson-Sea-Link II waits for recovery.
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Aug 30
The explorers of Leg 3
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Aug 30
A hexactinellid sponge that anchors itself in the sediment with elongate spicules
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Aug 30
Lush bottom cover suggests a shallow water coral reef, except it exists in over 2,000 feet of water
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Aug 30
Dr. Eric Warrant leaves the Johnson-Sea-Link II submersible after a dive to the bottom of the ocean
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 Aug 29
A deep sea coral bioluminescing as it is agitated by the manipulator arm of the JSL II (QuickTime, 656 kb)
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Aug 29
Wesley Knight Chief Engineer of the R/V Seward Johnson.
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Aug 29
A large grouping of deep ocean sea anemones
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Aug 29
A species of black coral
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Aug 29
A deep sea octopus
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Aug 28
Bobby Bixler, Chief Seward of the R/V Seward Johnson
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Aug 28
Dr. Peter Herring
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Aug 28
A small shark swims nearby as scientists examine a sponge
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Aug 28
Golden crab
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Aug 28
A squid found by the observers aboard the JSL
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Aug 27
snowy groupers, Epinephelus niveatus, supervise submersible collections. (QuickTime, 800 kb)
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Aug 27
White cup sponges.
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Aug 27
Dr. Robin Willoughby
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Aug 27
A very large hexactinellid sponge
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Aug 27
The Venus flower basket sponge.
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Aug 27
A sea star
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Aug 26
Microscopic spicules from Gorgonacea sp. of sponge.
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Aug 26
Microscopic spicules from a pachastrellid sponge.
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Aug 26
Examining newly-collected samples.
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Aug 26
Examining sponge spicules with a microscope.
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Aug 26
Newly-discovered species of sponge that looks like a Christmas tree.
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Aug 25
A hard sponge
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Aug 25
An Unidentified skate or ray
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Aug 25
A red sea star (Virsingia sp.).
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Aug 24
lunar-like scenery and a snowy grouper swimming under a ledge. (QuickTime, 832 kb)
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Aug 24
Unidentified sponge.
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Aug 24
An Orange Roghy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) under a ledge.
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Aug 24
Coelopleurus floridanus, a beautiful red sea urchin.
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Aug 23
Tara Peterson Pitts collects samples for her biomedical research.
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Aug 23
Bioluminescence emitted from the ventral surface, or underside, of a deep sea fish
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Aug 23
Dr. Edie Widder double-checks her Eye-in-the-Sea camera before it is deployed
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Aug 23
Bioluminescence emitted by a comb jelly
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Aug 22
A bamboo coral skeleton (Ceratoisis flexibilis) with living tissue removed.
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Aug 22
A bamboo coral (Ceratoisis flexibilis) with living polyps.
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Aug 22
Lophelia sp. deepwater coral.
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Aug 22
Deepwater lacy bryozoan.
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Aug 22
Phakellia sp. Deepwater fan sponge.
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Aug 21
Footage captured by the Johnson-Sea-Link II. (QuickTime, 760 kb)
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Aug 21
Scorpaenid fish.
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Aug 21
Teacher Arte Roman.
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Aug 21
Leiodermatium sp., a deepwater sponge.
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Aug 21
Bamboo coral; note black banding.
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Aug 20
The Johnson-Sea-Link II deploying traps. (QuickTime, 732 kb)
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Aug 20
Coral, pencil urchin, and sea star.
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Aug 20
LaVern Taylor, Senior Marine Technician, R/V Seward Johnson.
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Aug 20
Glass sponge with zooanthids attached.
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Aug 20
Unidentified crab in front of sponge.
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Aug 19
The Johnson-Sea-Link II sampling benthic invertebrates. (QuickTime, 728 kb)
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Aug 19
Scientists gather to look at the many samples collected.
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Aug 19
An unidentified jellyfish.
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Aug 19
The Johnson-Sea-Link II is launched.
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Aug 18
Submersible pilots show students the equipment on the front of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.
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Aug 15
a beautiful hogfish swims by the Johnson-Sea-Link. (QuickTime, 540 kb)
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Aug 15
a closeup encounter with a large moray eel. (QuickTime, 540 kb)
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Aug 15
A tiny spiny puffer fish caught in one of the neuston net tows.
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Aug 15
A cone shell collected during an invertebrate “sweep” of the ocean floor using the JSL II’s suction sampler.
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Aug 15
A tiny and very dangerous Portugese Man-O-War jellyfish
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Aug 15
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Aug 14
An unusual species of crab observed for the first time at the Lophelia coral banks.
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Aug 14
A deep sea anemone and galatheid crabs seen on the Lophelia coral banks
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Aug 14
Deep sea glass sponges retrieved at 1400 feet.
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Aug 14
A healthy branch of Lophelia coral sampled from the deep ocean reefs.
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Aug 14
A beautiful pale orange coral collected at the Lophelia coral banks.
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Aug 13
The beautiful and complex habitat of the Lophelia coral banks. (QuickTime, 536 kb)
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Aug 13
Computer monitor display showing the ship's position and track in real time.
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Aug 13
Jim Sullivan, tracks the Johnson-Sea-Link II submersible during a dive
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Aug 13
Detailed chart of the “Steeples” research site
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Aug 13
Cruise planning chart of research areas
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Aug 12
A slideshow of organisms the Johnson Sea-Link encountered during a dive. (QuickTime, 520 kb) |
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Aug 12
Members of the science party gather review video footage taken during the JSL II's dive's.
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Aug 12
Acoral hake swimming among the Lophelia coral.
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Aug 12
Galatheids, also known as squat lobsters live among the dendritic branches of the Lophelia corals.
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Aug 12
Film-maker Art Howard taking footage.
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Aug 11
video of an Otter trawl deployment. (Quicktime, 464 kb)
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Aug 11
A computer display showing the readouts of the Seward Johnson's internal water sensors.
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Aug 11
internal sensors aboard the Seward Johnson are part of the underway sampling system.
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Aug 11
A deep-sea fish called a green eye
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Aug 11
A pencil urchin brought up from one of the trawls.
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Aug 11
This Otter trawl is one of the devices being used to sample the ocean floor.
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Aug 10
This Houndfish was also caught during “night-lighting.”
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Aug 10
A juvenile needlefish caught during “night-lighting.”
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Aug 10
An Arrow squid measuring almost two feet long.
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Aug 10
Using “night-lighting” attract fish and invertebrates in the area.
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Aug 10
Sorting through sargassum collected during a neuston net tow.
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Aug 9
A closeup of a small mass of sargassum weed.
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Aug 9
Sargassum samples being sifted through.
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Aug 9
A juvenile scrawled filefish found within the mass of sargassum.
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Aug 9
Lines of sargassum can stretch for miles along the surface.
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Aug 8
Fish swimming around spatially complex areas such as boulders and caves. (QuickTime, 804kb)
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Aug 8
During a dive the submersible crew encounters groupings of Almaco jacks. (QuickTime, 504kb)
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Aug 8
The Johnson Sea-Link being deployed for a dive. (QuickTime, 948kb)
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Aug 7
This juvenile trigger fishwas captured near the surface in a neuston net.
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Aug 7
This plankton net can capture the smallest of marine organisms including marine algae, larval fish and invertebrates.
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Aug 7
The yellow floats on top of the neuston net frame insure that it will not sink any lower that 1 meter below the surface.
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Aug 7
A neuston net is being deployed off the starboard side of the R/V Seward Johnson.
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Aug 7
This octopus was captured in an "Otter” trawl.
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Aug 6
These crabs are members of the galatheid family, commonly known as squat lobsters.
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Aug 6
A member of the calappidae family of crabs.
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Aug 6
One of the JSL II dive team enters the aft observation compartment of the submersible.
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Aug 6
This bottom dwelling fish usually moves across the ocean floor crawling on a pair of modified pectoral fins.
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Aug 5
Graph indicating declines in abundance for most species of reef fish.
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Aug 5
Diagram showing large vs. small reef fish
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Aug 5
Diagram showing increased demand for red snapper resulted in increased catches into the 1970s. |
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Aug 4
Closeup of a Young Grab.
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Aug 4
Animals found living in sandy sediments near rocky reefs.
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Aug 4
Preparing the Young Grab for deployment.
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Aug 3
Two different sampling techniques used by the submersible. (QuickTime, 1Mb)
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Aug 3
A typical deep reef habitat showing the direction of video surveys and the location of benthic samples collected.
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Aug 3
Benthic samples being looked at under the microscope.
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Aug 3
Typical benthic invertebrates include marine worms, tiny crustaceans, clams, and snails.
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Aug 3
An attachment on the Johnson Sea Link is used to “vacuum” an area of the seafloor. |
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Aug 2
Video sighting of a Lionfish, an invasive species. (QuickTime, 1.1 Mb)
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Aug 2
A lionfish, is sighted several times during dive operations.
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Aug 1
Coney grouper exhibiting different color variations.
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Aug 1
Different markings in species of butterfly fish.
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Aug 1
Major characteristics used to identify fish.
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Aug 1
Identifying fish from a submersible.
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July 31
Deployment of the sonar fish off the stern of the R/V Seward Johnson.
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July 31
Raw side scan sonar record of the St. Augustine Scarp.
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July 31
Side scan sonar acquisition computer.
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July 31
A side scan sonar tow vehicle, also called a ‘fish’.
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July 30
Video of a scamp grouper rapidly changing color. (QuickTime, 688 kb)
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July 30
An adult blackbelly rosefish
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July 30
Larvae of the snapper species Lutjanidae.
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July 30
Schools of vermilion snapper.
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July 30
The Seward Johnson crew launches the JSL II.
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July 29
Video of a "live rock specimen" being collected. (QuickTime, 1Mb)
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July 29
Tiny tubes built as housing by serpulid tube-worms.
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July 29
A turkey wing mussel (Genus Arca).
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July 29
Each rock is photographed with a scale before the invertebrates are removed from it.
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July 29
A large “live rock” collected by the Johnson-Sea-Link II.
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July 28
Video of a sponge being collected. QuickTime, 1.2 Mb)
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July 28
A particularly colorful sponge collected at 198 ft.
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July 28
A commensal amphipod emerges from a stinking vase sponge.
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July 28
The fire sponge, Tedaria ignis.
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July 28
Stacie Crowe holds the stinking sponge Ircinia campana.
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July 27
The R/V Seward Johnson being prepared for the expedition. (QuickTime, 1Mb)
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July 27
Lisa Hollen, gets the 'privilege' of trying on the immersion suit.
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July 27
Capt. Ralph Van Hoeke discusses safety at sea with the science party.
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July 27
The crew and science party prepare the ship.
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July 27
The R/V Seward Johnson at sunrise on the first morning of IIS 2002.
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