Photo & Video Log
This page contains photos and videos taken during the exploration of the Alaska's Seamounts between June 22 and July 15, 2002. Click on any image to view a larger version and for additional information. If a movie camera icon 
is present, a video can be viewed by clicking on the image. If a Podcast icon 
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If a slideshow icon 
is present, a visual log of exploration images can be viewed. You can scroll through them one by one, or select the play button for an automatic slideshow.
Video & Slideshows
Video
Summary
Highlights of Gulf of Alaska Seamount Exploration
July 14
Crinoid swimming
July 11
Alvin collecting volcanic rock.
July 8
Chains of volcanic mountains.
July 8
Patton Seamount
July 7
Cold water coral
July 2
Squid swimming
June 27
Collecting a crab sample
Images
Summary
ALVIN launch
Summary
Crab pot
Summary
White sea star and flat fish
Summary
Juvenile crab
Summary
Scarlet king crabs
Summary
Patton Seamount chain
Summary
Pincher collection
Summary
Sponge and anemone
Summary
Larval fish
Summary
ALVIN passenger
July 15
Large pink sea fan
July 15
Horn-shaped vase sponges
July 15
A bizarre elephant sponge
July 14
An Isidid coral, otherwise known as bamboo coral
July 14
Bamboo coral
July 14
Candelbra structure on a bamboo coral
July 13
AB Seaman Jerry Graham
July 13
Chief Mate Mitzie Crane and Ed “Catfish” Popowitz
July 13
Sue Doenges
July 13
Sue Doenges and Amy Baco-Taylor
July 13
Crewmembers pause following a recovery of the Alvin
July 12
Skeleton shrimp
July 12
Naomi Ward emptying seawater
July 12
Naomi Ward collecting mucus
July 12
Bruce Strickrott detaching Niskin bottles
July 11
Basalt “columns”
July 11
Fractured pillow basalts
July 11
Lava tubes
July 11
Coloring Styrofoam cups
July 11
Before and after compression
July 10
Sarah Flood Page and Naomi Ward
July 10
Putting the gravity corer over the side
July 10
Aftermath of a mud fight
July 10
14 foot gravity core
July 9
Gooseneck barnacles
July 9
Spider crab missing limbs
July 9
Adult male spider crab eating a female spider crab
July 9
Gastric mill and teeth
July 8
Seabeam bathymetry
July 7
Coral polyps on a bamboo coral
July 7
Paragorgia with basket starfish & polychaetes
July 7
Paragorgia coral
July 7
Sea whip
July 7
Paragorgia with squat lobsters
July 5
Tug boat coming to meet the R/V Atlantis
July 5
School children view collection
July 1
Bamboo coral
July 1
Lava flow
June 27
Crab ganglia
June 27
Couesi eggs
June 27
Macroreg eggs
June 26
Alvin being moved out of the hanger
June 26
Alvin first launch
June 26
Entering Alvin
June 26
National Geographic Channel interview
June 25
R/V Atlantis docked
June 25
Emergency breathing apparatus training
June 25
Rick Bean instructs all newcomers
June 25
Wind and waves
June 25
Zach Hoyt fixing cracks in the crab tank
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