This image from Dive 04 of the expedition, shows a hard substrate-dominated seafloor with a variety of sessile filter feeders (stalked crinoids, glass sponge, barnacles), but no fishes.
Hard Substrate-dominated Seafloor
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin. Download larger version (jpg, 1.9 MB).

This image from Dive 04 of the expedition, shows a hard substrate-dominated seafloor with a variety of sessile filter feeders (stalked crinoids, glass sponge, barnacles), but no fishes.

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