We're at the moment going up a wall, and you can see it's covered in sponges
and some of them are particularly large. Wow. Look at that side view.
That huge sponge attached to a seemingly small stalk.
That's just beautiful. Some great video.
Look at those lasers. So those lasers are 10 centimeters apart.
So those are what we call laser scales. They are how we tell what size things are
on the seafloor. My goodness.
Well over a meter, if not closer to a meter and a half.
It's really such beautiful structure, too.
It's created by a fusion of adjacent spicules. So the soft sponges don't glue
the spicules together, whereas these hard sponges do.
So you can actually see in the live tissue this time,
that matrix.
As one of the pilots commented earlier, it looks a little bit like fiberglass sheets.
And that shows you really clearly the pores. On each of those pores, there's specialized
cells that have these flagella that make water flow through them.
And so the water goes through them and filters out all the particulars that they want to eat
and then the water without those nutrients comes out the other side.
That's really spectacular, pilot, that's a really good shot.