Image Archive

A soft coral with polyps extended next to another with polyps retracted, clinging to the underside of a ledge on the Western flank of Axial Caldera. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R2245, V22

A pink anemone grows on a discarded tarp or bag at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Solid attachment points can be hard to find in the deep sea, so human-made objects (instruments, cables, or even trash) often attract encrusting animals. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R2221, V22

A pink anemone grows on a discarded tarp or bag at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Solid attachment points can be hard to find in the deep sea, so human-made objects (instruments, cables, or even trash) often attract encrusting animals. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R2221, V22

A colonial hydrozoan known as a siphonophore drifts above the mounded sediment, bacterial mats, and chemosynthetic clam beds at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A bubblegum coral with its feeding polyps either retracted or missing (possibly eaten by a nearby nudibranch), seen at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

This Corallimorph anemone was spotted on the seafloor at Southern Hydrate Ridge at a depth of 774 meters. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1772; V14.