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Image Archive

A hagfish and a rockfish strike a pose at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1715, V25.

Pink urchins crawl across thick white bacterial mats at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1715, V25.

Black cod (sablefish) schooling around the anchor of the OR Offshore Deep Profiler mooring. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1714, V25.

A pink sea urchin and an anemone surrounded by scallops on the OR Offshore Deep Profiler float. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1714, V25.

An ethereal looking jelly seen near the top of the Slope Base Deep Profiler Mooring. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1712, V25.

Cusk eel swimming towards Jason during a dive at the Slope Base Deep Profiler mooring. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1711, V25.

Cusk eel encountered while unplugging the Slope Base Deep Profiler mooring. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1711, V25.

A cusk eel came to investigate the Deep Profiler unplugging operation at the Axial Base site. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; J2-1709; V25

Close-up of the Fried Egg (or Egg-Yolk) jelly (and its fish companions) drifting beside Jason at the Axial Base site. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; J2-1709; V25

A Fried Egg (or Egg-Yolk) jelly (and its fish companions) drifts upside down at the Axial Base site. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; J2-1709; V25

A Fried Egg (or Egg-Yolk) jelly (and its fish companions) encountered during dive J2-1709 at the Axial Base site. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; J2-1709; V25

The base of a CTD instrument tripod, at the ASHES vent field in Axial Caldera. The tripod sits next to some juvenile tube worms growing out of cracks in the basalt, where diffuse hydrothermal fluids mix with the seawater and feed the chemosynthetic symbionts that provide energy to the worms. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; J2-1708; V25

A Scotoplanes sea cucumber (also known as a sea pig) at Axial Base, surrounded by brittle stars and other seafloor organisms. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; J2-1706; V25

Two sea slugs (possibly Hermissenda opalescens, also known as the opalescent nudibranch) crawling on the side of the Axial Base Shallow Profiler (200 meters depth). Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; Dive J2-1702; V25

A juvenile Blue shark, about 4 feet long, swims next to the R/V Atlantis at the OR Offshore site. Credit: J. Tilley, UW-APL, V25

Breaching Humpback whale off the coast of Newport, OR. Credit: J. Tilley, UW-APL, V25

Stalked tunicates (Culeolus sp.) attached to the cage around the electronics on the Slope Base Shallow Profiler Mooring cable. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; Dive J2-1617; V24

A flytrap anemone (Actinoscyphia sp.) attached itself to the W6 cable connector on one of the Slope Base junction boxes. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; Dive J2-1617; V24

Stalked tunicates (Culeolus sp.) attached to the cage around the electronics on the Slope Base Shallow Profiler Mooring cable. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; Dive J2-1617; V24

Spider crab at Phoenix vent in ASHES vent field during dive J2-1650. Credit: M. Vardaro, University of Washington, V24.

A scarlet mound of thriving tube worms at Phoenix vent in ASHES vent field during dive J2-1650. Credit: M. Vardaro, University of Washington, V24.

Some of the crabs at Southern Hydrate Ridge have anemones growing on their backs, as protection or camouflage or just a fashion statement. This one, sporting a symmetrical arrangement, was dubbed Princess Leia by the crew in the ROV control van. Credit: M. Vardaro, University of Washington, V24.

One of the fish we see a lot at Southern Hydrate Ridge is the Roughtail Skate, frequently resting on the seafloor or gliding past our cameras. Credit: M. Vardaro, University of Washington, V24.