AUV Sentry deployment on 26 July 2010 in Puget Sound for a test dunk. Photo taken by Mitch Elend.

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Sketch of Graneledone Octopus by Montgomery Taylor, College of Charleston student onboard Leg 3 of VISIONS '13.

A vent scaleworm (center of the image) has a 'furry' coat of filamentous bacteria living on its back.

Scale worms on Escargot vent at Axial Seamount are typically pink. The one in the foreground dines on a clam. Credit; UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V10.

Limpets covering the base of a hydrothermal vent on Axial Seamount

Limpets on Escargot vent, Axial Seamount. Here, the limpet shells have been stained brown by hydrothermal deposits.

Squat Lobster on Escargot vent at Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

Glob Snails on Escargot Vent, Axial Seamount - Closeup. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; V11

Glob Snails on Escargot Vent, Axial Seamount. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; V11

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A picture of the R/V Thompson loading for the Enlighten'10 Cruise.   Photos were taken by Nick Stoermer with an Canon EOS T1i, a sequence of 5 images were stitched together in photoshop

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Titanium syringe sampling a high temperature black smoker chimney on the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

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Global, Regional, and Coastal Scale Nodes in the northern hemisphere to be installed as part of the NSF's Ocean Observatory Initiative. Not shown are global nodes off Chile and in the Argentine Basin