The tapes are from the bow camera of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible and are records of each dive.

A small fraction of the data being collected on this expedition. Two external cameras and one internal camera are employed during submersible dives, potentially producing six to eight hours of video per dive, all of which has to be organized for later analysis. Image courtesy of Ross et al., NOAA-OE, HBOI.

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