Image Archive

Spider crabs are very sensitive to vibrations. This one, at 5000 feet beneath the ocean's surface at Axial Seamount investigated a monkey fist on a piece of equipment on the Canadian ROV ROPOS.

Rattail fish swims slowly in 2.4°C seawater at a depth of nearly 5000 feet beneath the ocean's surface at Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, V11.

This Flapjack Octopus was imaged by the Canadian robotic vehicle ROPOS at a water depth of 5728 feet on Axial Seamount. Photo credit: OOI-NSF/UW/CSSF, V11

A beautiful colony of soft corals grow atop carbonate blocks at the Pinnacle on Southern Hydrate Ridge.

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