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The Jason pilots carefully use a manipulator to cover the open socket of the Oregon Shelf junction box with a protective 'dummy plug' after disconnecting the digital still camera. Anemones cover most of the rest of the surface of the platform. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A possessive shrimp colonized the junction box plug that we needed to disconnect to recover the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. The Jason ROV won the battle. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Anemones flourish on the hard surfaces of the Oregon Shelf junction box, luckily leaving a gap wide enough for the orange handle of the power plug needed to disconnect the digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

There are so many anemones covering the Oregon Shelf (80m) junction box that it can be hard to see the frame. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A rear view of the anemones, barnacles, and tunicates covering the Oregon Shelf digital camera after a one year deployment. A lingcod fish is hanging out beneath the tripod, and a large number of ctenophores (comb jellies) were also seen at the site. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The Oregon Shelf digital still camera, covered in barnacles, anemones, and tunicates (sea squirts), and sheltering a large lingcod, following a one-year deployment. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Barnacles, anemones, and tunicates encrust the Oregon Shelf digital still camera tripod, with a lingcod hiding beneath. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

Fish school around the Oregon Offshore hydrophone (underwater microphone) tripod as it is prepared for recovery in 2019. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A black cod fish swimming away from the Oregon Offshore BEP as it is prepared for recovery in 2019. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

Zoroasterid (top left) and Solaster (center bottom) sea stars and a flatfish (top right) at the Oregon Offshore site. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A sea pen (a colonial, stalked cnidarian, related to jellyfish) at Slope Base. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A rattail investigating the newly deployed CTD and optical attenuation/absorption tripod at Slope Base. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Sea anemones attached to a power cable on the Slope Base junction box. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Slope Base junction box with sea anemones and sea cucumber. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A fringed sea cucumber next to the Slope Base junction box in 2019. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

Mysterious fish prowling around the Slope Base CTD deployment site. Possibly the snailfish Genioliparis ferox. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

Mysterious fish, either a rattail or a snailfish, prowling around the Slope Base CTD deployment site. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

The hydrophone (underwater microphone) tripod latched to the Oregon Shelf benthic experiment package, prior to recovery by Jason. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The digital still camera in 80 meters of water is encrusted with life after only 1 year in the water. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI;V19.

Sea anemones thrive on one of the Junction Boxes at the Oregon Shelf site. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V19.

Barnacles, tunicates, and anemones biofouling the digital still camera at the Oregon Shelf site. Photo Credit: M. Vardaro, UW, V19

Close-up shot of white anemones on top of Oregon Shelf junction box MJ01C. Photo Credit: M. Vardaro, UW, V19

Close-up shot of shrimp hiding among the anemones encrusting Oregon Shelf junction box MJ01C. Photo Credit: M. Vardaro, UW, V19

A shrimp hiding among the anemones biofouling junction box MJ01C at the Oregon Shelf Site, deployed since 2014. Photo Credit: M. Vardaro, UW, V19

The monitors in the Jason control van during dive J2-1162, showing the extreme biofouling of junction box MJ01C. Photo Credit: M. Vardaro, UW, V19.

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