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Towards the end of DSV Alvin dive #4037,

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we ran into a few swarms of crabs
scavenging on some dead fish.

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We were all pretty excited to see probably
30 crabs in three clusters, eating away.

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These are the largest white galatheid
crabs we’ve seen during this expedition.

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At this point,
our pilot Bruce Strickrott joked with us

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that if we fell out, we'd end up
looking like these fish.

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Bruce impressed us
with his crab-wrangling abilities,

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but I thought his game was over when I saw

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the biobox was still closed.

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But Bruce had one more card up his sleeve,

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and used Alvin's two arms in tandem
to deftly secure our last sample.