Image Archive

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.

The El Gordo vent hosts a colorful array of life, as seen in 2022 with ROPOS. Blue ciliates, sulfide worms, tube worms, and bacteria cover the landscape. Friable chimneys of fine grained sulfide and anydrite are actively venting. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF/V22.

Brown anemones, thousands of limpets, scale worms, bacteria and sea spiders cover the diffuse flow site near the OSMO fluid sampler in 2022. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.

A small catshark swims past the ROV ROPOS in 2022 at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.

Southern Hydrate Ridge is now an 'essential fish habitat". Here, rockfish, hagfish and crabs are commonly seen with the ROV as will as clam chaff away from the seeps. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF;V22.

Brown anemones are thriving in a diffuse flow site in teh ASHE hydrothermal field. The site also hosts thick microbial mats, filamentous bacteria, tubeworms and limpets. Credti: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V22.