WEBVTT 00:00:01.563 --> 00:00:05.423 We are diving today on the Corner Rise One Seamount. This 00:00:05.423 --> 00:00:10.763 is actually an unnamed little seamount. This area has 00:00:10.763 --> 00:00:16.663 obviously persisted over time. Oh, we have a little octopus. 00:00:16.663 --> 00:00:21.783 Dumbo. Mike Vecchione from the National Museum of Natural 00:00:21.783 --> 00:00:24.303 History at the Smithsonian Institution has identified this 00:00:24.303 --> 00:00:28.383 Dumbo octopi as a Cirrothauma magna. It's actually quite a 00:00:28.383 --> 00:00:31.403 rare species. 00:00:32.563 --> 00:00:37.503 Um beautiful detail on his tentacles there. It's just so 00:00:37.503 --> 00:00:42.063 wonderfully graceful when they swim. They move with these dumbo 00:00:42.063 --> 00:00:50.643 ears. Beautiful. Very red and transparent. A lot of organisms 00:00:50.643 --> 00:00:53.943 in the deep ocean are often red uh particularly if you're a 00:00:53.943 --> 00:00:57.903 mobile fauna, red is a attenuated very high up in the 00:00:57.903 --> 00:01:00.183 water column so as you go deeper and deeper you no longer 00:01:00.183 --> 00:01:05.103 can see red colors and so if you make yourself a red color, 00:01:05.103 --> 00:01:09.383 you're very often uh invisible. 00:01:12.063 --> 00:01:16.823 And transparency is also a really good strategy to live in 00:01:16.823 --> 00:01:19.643 the deep ocean. If you're transparent, it's a very hard 00:01:19.643 --> 00:01:23.003 for other organisms to see you. So this combination of a bit of 00:01:23.003 --> 00:01:26.663 transparency and a bit of red probably keeps this uh this 00:01:26.663 --> 00:01:31.003 octopi very hidden from predators.