Image Archive

A Tanner crab on the sediment at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Graneledone octopus hides among bizarre lava flow structures near International District vent field in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2213, V22.

A warty, deep-sea purple octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) sitting on a lava flow at Axial Seamount. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R2213, V22

A scarlet king crab walking on a carbonate outcrop at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Brown Catshark checking out ROPOS during a survey at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2224, V22.

A battered, old king crab covered in lesions and tube worms, seen at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A rosy Tritonia nudibranch crawling over the seafloor next to a denuded bubblegum coral at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A rosy Tritonia nudibranch crawling on an old marker at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Poralia jellyfish drifting past a carbonate outcrop covered in soft corals at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A hagfish swimming over carbonate rock at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A deep-sea sole and a bubblegum coral seen near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A rockfish lying nose to tail with a cod on the carbonate rock at Pinnacle, near 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.

Close-up of a Dover sole at Southern Hydrate Ridge, lying on bacterial mats and clam beds. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Dover sole eyeing the submersible as it rests on a bacterial mat at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A translucent sea cucumber crawling past some brittle stars (ophiuroids) at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Brown Catshark swimming near the seafloor at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Brown Catshark swimming above orange bacterial mats near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A hagfish burrowing into the sediment near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) seen at Pinnacle, west of the main seep sites at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

A Beroe ctenophore (comb jelly) seen at Pinnacle, near Southern Hydrate Ridge. Soft corals attached to authigenic carbonate outcrops can be seen in the background. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22.

Pillow basalts, exhibiting classic bread crust texture, are home to brittle stars and star fish at the summit of Axial Seamount, Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.

The anhydrite-CO2-rich vent 'Diva" in the International District sprouts numerous fragile chimneys emitting gas-rich fluids with CO2 bubbles in 2022. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.

An IGT sampler for fluids-gases is used by the ROV ROPOS in the large >300°C orifice on the side of Escargot in 2022. The orifice is lined with a copper-rich mineral called chalcopyrite. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.

Hermit crab seen at Pinnacle near SHR during VISIONS'22. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22

Hermit crab with an anemone on its shell, seen at Pinnacle near SHR during VISIONS'22. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R2228, V22

Blue ciliates, tube worms, bacteria, limpets and a single squat lobster are supported by diffusely venting fluids near the base of the sulfide edifice called Escargot. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.