This is the Atlantis II seamount group.
It is a group of about three peaks. And we are on the largest of the peaks.
We are about 235 miles from the continental shelf. So we are outside the U.S. EEZ now and
we are really doing some deep-ocean exploration here on unexplored seamounts.
Alright, so I don't know if you heard some of the excitement from geology in the back row here,
but that carbonate-looking material was really exciting.
I see it, too. Thank you very much.
If you look in video stream 2, you'll see we're coming up on a rock that has
quite a high density of sponges. This is not something that we have
seen before either today or on the previous dives.
So our depth right now is 2,435 meters,
we're just getting ready to come off the bottom and recover the vehicles,
and we want to thank those of you who are with us today.
It's been an exciting day here on the Atlantis II seamount complex.
This is the first-ever exploration of the bottom here.