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August 6, 2021: Octopus

We saw this octopus — on an #OctopusFriday nonetheless — while exploring near Jarvis Island, a 4.5 square kilometer (1.7 square mile) uninhabited island just south of the Equator as part of the Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin expedition.

Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin. Download larger version (jpg, 1.7 MB).

We saw this octopus — on an #OctopusFriday nonetheless — while exploring near Jarvis Island, a 4.5 square kilometer (1.7 square mile) uninhabited island just south of the Equator as part of the Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin expedition. The dive was a treasure trove of marine life, at one point leaving one of the scientists participating in the expedition from shore to exclaim, "this is the most fantastic thing I have ever seen!"