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A dinner plate jellyfish floats past the ROV ROPOS above Axial Seamount. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; V14

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Close up of a Neptunea snail on its egg stalk at the summit of Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1758; V14.

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Boiling ~350 fluids issue from the summit of El Guapo, looking like flames in the dark. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

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A nursery of Neptunea snails rest atop their egg stalks, babysitting them until the adult snails die and fall off the stalks. The eggs are laid on small carbonate cobbles. Rockfish, sole, spider crabs, and hermit crabs wander through the forest of stalks. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1758; V14.  

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Leg 4 VISIONS '14 undergraduate and graduate students include Oceanography, Engineering, and Earth and Space Sciences. Image Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

The Horizontal Electrometer-Pressure-Inverted Echosounder (HPIES -HPIESA101) installed at the Slope Base site. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1757; V14.  

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