Whoa.
Look at the amount of copepods.
A copious amount of copepods.
I just think it's so cool when we zoom up and you just see hundreds of them floating around. It's like a whole little city.
Tubeworms, Lamellibrachia tubeworms, can grow in these bush-like structures and create habitat, they act as these foundation species.
You get this very big thicket of these tubeworms and it provides a great place for many animals to feel safe in and shelter in as well as attach to.
So just here, in this one little view, which is probably only 70 centimeters across,
there are probably hundreds of individuals just within this little area.
And that in itself is a cold seep habitat to a great degree.
A huge aggregation of life because of a large abundance of food in this area.