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This is our second dive in the Corner Rise
Seamounts, on a seamount called Rockaway,

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which is actually never been visited before, so
there's been no ROV dives or no samples collected.

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We're also doing a deep dive today.
So we're actually going to start

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the dive just under 4,200 meters.
Not quite double, but almost double, the amount

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of depth that we were yesterday, which means that
there's about half the amount of food down here.

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Where's there less food,
there tends to be less life.

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So we wouldn't expect there to be
as great a diversity down here.

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Oh. Look at this beautiful polychaete.

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It does look a little like
a feather duster. Yep. Yep.

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These modified parapodia help him to swim.
And you can see they have all these fine

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little hairs in the way that they are
moving and undulating in the water.

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And from the chat room, we have
George Matsumoto and Scott France

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say this is potentially the "green bomber."
And so it uses a green luminescent bomb,

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probably when being attacked,
to confuse their predators.