This sea spider, or pycnogonid, was seen while exploring Physalia Seamount during the Our Deepwater Backyard: Exploring Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts 2014 expedition. This was one of several sea spiders observed feeding using a proboscis-like mouth. Luckily for arachnophobes, despite their common name, sea spiders aren’t actually spiders, but instead are distant relatives belonging to a separate class (Pycnogonida) in the phylum Arthropoda. Also of interest, this particular dive, which took place on October 1, 2014, was the first-ever remotely operated vehicle exploration of Physalia Seamount; prior to the dive, Physalia was the last unexplored seamount on the East Coast inside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.