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Oh, what's...ooh.

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What is this? This looks very seepy. It does look very seepy.

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So this is likely authegenic carbonate. So carbonate that has been formed by bacteria that is processing methane.

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And there's a number of these fish that seem to be enjoying this spot very much.

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So these white areas could be indication of bacteria that's feeding off of methane.

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So for people at home that are watching, we are a little surprised to find this.

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So we, there are seeps known to be in the very general region, but we did not have a target in sight for this dive.

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It's not that someone could not have located this earlier, but we weren't aware of it.

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So we're kind of scrambling to wrap our minds around what we're seeing as well.

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We didn't really know too much about seeps on this margin even existing before about 2012, when NOAA started discovering a lot of methane plumes in the water column.

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So the quandary we're in here is that these have only been studied, really, for about 5-7 years, and we're kind of always discovering more.