A lot of life on this particular rock here. I guess
very indicative of what we've been seeing since we landed
which is just been amazing, just beautiful. So, we started
today's dive in a manganese nodule field and here we are on
the most northern peak at really quite a shallow depth
and we landed in these nodules but also really what I would
consider potentially a garden, a coral garden.
There are specific metrics that uh you have to count the number
of colonies within a certain square footage and uh we'll
certainly be doing a little bit of that analysis later on this
video. I would has it a guess that this is actually a coral
garden with the number of species that we see here and
just the density and diversity. Right now at 1,732 meters depth
which is uh one of the shallowest dives of this
expedition. As I sit here in the back row, I have a little
notebook and I keep a note of what species are occurring on
this dive and my list is starting to go over into page
number two. We've seen a lot of species on this dive so far.
It's really been a wonderfully biologically diverse dive
particularly for these deep sea corals and sponges.
Just beautiful.