What an amazing place. What an incredible diversity of glass sponges, many Euplectella and farreids!
Dorado Outcrop Costa Rica Schmidt Ocean
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So many cool things on ascent today! A siphonophore (looks like chuniphyes?). Was suggested maybe the second one is a forma covered by radiolarian? The a snipe eel. Off Costa Rica Tengosed Seamount Schmidt Ocean #OctoOdyssey #Siphonophriend
OMGoodness!!!!! Is this what I think it is? Do I have siphonophore experts here? It looks to me like a small Flying Spaghetti Monster (bathyphysa conifera). Could it be a small one??? Off Costa Rica Tengosed Seamount Schmidt Ocean #OctoOdyssey #Siphonophriend
After months of planning (years for some), we’re finally on board Falkor too! Follow us live here, dives start in two days!: m.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean/… #OctoOdyssey
I just felt like reminding the world that breaststroke isopods exist, and they have jazz hands.
From Schmidt Ocean dive 531 part 3 #OctoOdyssey
#OctoOdyssey Our first magical encounter with the Dorado Seamount Octopods! 🐙 world authority Janet Voight explains what we see here! Join us on the seafloor with your questions: m.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean/…
Got a bonus dive today, and what did we just see? Tripodfish!! (Bathypterois grallator) Off Costa Rica Fuente Knoll Schmidt Ocean #OctoOdyssey
W.499 / South Pacific / Costa Rica
Sights and scenes from the seamounts of Costa Rica. During Schmidt Ocean's #octoodyssey expedition, the team explored areas such as the Dorado Outcrop and other previously unexplored seamounts in the northwestern corner of Costa Rica’s waters.
This Psychedelic Jelly lights up like a #NewYearsEve deep-sea firework! #HappyNewYear to all ~ Here's to a wonderful upcoming 2024! Jelly seen during the Dec #OctoOdyssey expedition - Full dive available here: youtube.com/watch?v=_sHBRD…
Some cnidarians from today's dive #OctoOdyssey | Zoanthids and anemone at the top | Relicanthus anemone | Umbellula octocoral | Anthipatharia
#OctoOdyssey this is just what we call an oasis in the middle of an immense sedimentary bottom 2897 m
A fitting confrontation between Poseidon and Zeus to close things out for our first #OctoOdyssey expedition Schmidt Ocean Gustavo A. Ramírez
I’m a seafloor kind of girl, but the water column is pretty fab too. Check out this Gonatus onyx squid we saw - those are eggs in its arms! They will carry those (thousands?) of eggs for a few months. Amazing footage via Schmidt Ocean and our teams excellent timing. #octoodyssey
This finding is very surprising to us. What kind of jelly thing is this? observed it in the pacific coast of Costa Rica during Schmidt Ocean #OctoOdyssey expedition 2 sightings: one at 3087 m and the other at 2694 m stevehaddock.bsky Carolina Jacobson, PhD High Seas Science Kylie Pitt Jonathan Lawley
