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This actually might be what we call a cerianthid
anemone.

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Get a little bit closer and take a look.
Cerianthid anemones are tube anemones.

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Yep, yep. That's a cerianthid.
So they actually have a tube that goes down,

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often into the sediment or sometimes into
cracks in rocks.

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And they have this second ring of tentacles.
That's how know it's a cerianthid.

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Are those smaller tentacles just protecting,
I guess, the mouth area?

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Yeah. It's like those are the oral area. So
that's the mouth.

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Anemones only have kind of one hole, so they
take in food, they digest what they want,

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and then they spit it all back out again,
and you have the waste.

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So you wonder with these tentacles being closed
like this means that it's got a meal inside

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there that it's slowly digesting.
It's a beautiful color.

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It really is, it blends in so well with the
background.

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Not that anemones have many predators in the
deep ocean, but you would think that would

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be a good strategy.