[00:09:38] briankennedy leaves the room [02:08:32] briankennedy leaves the room [03:16:33] briankennedy leaves the room [07:51:28] amandademopoulos leaves the room [16:27:39] okexnav leaves the room [16:39:12] Good morning all. We are on station preparing to dive. Steve and Amanda will be sending out an updated dive plan based on the bathy we collected shortly. [16:57:59] Sea Scribe link for Dive 2 https://divelog.oceannetworks.ca/Dive?diveId=473 [16:58:17] Expedition Teleconference Line: 1-866-617-5860, passcode: 1233796 [16:58:39] Low latency high resolution versions (for contributing scientists only): http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream-full-res.html [17:34:08] stevenauscavitch leaves the room [17:38:53] Test msg EX1703_DIVE02 [17:43:44] chat-admin leaves the room [17:50:59] taraluke leaves the room [17:57:24] iscwatch2 leaves the room: Replaced by new connection [18:04:56] katiewagner leaves the room [18:09:44] EX1703_DIVE02 Rov Launch [18:11:01] Good morning from the OKEX. D2 has just launched and we'll be heading down shortly. [18:11:41] taraluke leaves the room [18:11:52] The landing site is about 523m depth and should take us about a half hour to reach bottom [18:14:30] test. Good morning [18:14:49] good morning tim! [18:15:00] Good morning! [18:16:23] Good Morning every one. [18:16:27] Nice looking day there. [18:17:58] EX1703_DIVE02 Vehicles in the Water [18:18:31] EX1703_DIVE02 Vehicles Descending [18:19:21] LAT :-7.19101, LON : -173.63678, DEPTH : 14.5742m, TEMP : 29.57270C, SAL : 35.30640 PSU, DO : 6.30393 mg/L [18:19:28] The weather is good here. Let's hope it stays this way [18:20:40] We will be starting the pre-dive call in 5min [18:24:22] LAT :-7.19128, LON : -173.63673, DEPTH : 49.0418m, TEMP : 29.49612C, SAL : 35.43912 PSU, DO : 6.33856 mg/L [18:24:32] timothyshank leaves the room [18:29:23] LAT :-7.19146, LON : -173.63673, DEPTH : 189.5596m, TEMP : 24.12252C, SAL : 36.23781 PSU, DO : 4.93366 mg/L [18:30:30] Looks like the EX was able to multibeam map pretty well over Pao Pao. No breaker issues? [18:31:09] Yea we covered the entire thing. THe shoal depth was about 250 meters [18:31:09] No breakers. We were able to get 2-3 good passes over the summit overnight [18:32:28] excellent. [18:33:11] We found an interesting feature on the SE flank that appears to be something of a collapse or even a crater(?) [18:34:23] LAT :-7.19136, LON : -173.63633, DEPTH : 339.2055m, TEMP : 11.52220C, SAL : 34.85043 PSU, DO : 2.70698 mg/L [18:34:27] See that. Collapse or slump maybe... [18:37:00] Has the dive call not started, or am I just having audio issues here? [18:38:30] taraluke leaves the room [18:38:49] Not yet. we are waiting on video engineers. [18:39:24] LAT :-7.19100, LON : -173.63593, DEPTH : 319.5316m, TEMP : 12.60477C, SAL : 34.92882 PSU, DO : 2.44927 mg/L [18:39:51] thanks [18:44:24] LAT :-7.19055, LON : -173.63557, DEPTH : 319.1015m, TEMP : 12.57997C, SAL : 34.92633 PSU, DO : 2.43969 mg/L [18:49:25] LAT :-7.19006, LON : -173.63524, DEPTH : 318.9402m, TEMP : 12.64465C, SAL : 34.93126 PSU, DO : 2.45132 mg/L [18:50:11] looks like potential mass wasting/slumping on Titov Seamount- somewhat similar to the east side of Pao Pao [18:51:05] yes, tim, similar pacman chunk cut out of the seamount. there seemed to be a visible failure downslope on Pao Pao, will be interesting to get geo input [18:54:25] LAT :-7.18983, LON : -173.63505, DEPTH : 446.3944m, TEMP : 8.58782C, SAL : 34.65558 PSU, DO : 3.52663 mg/L [18:59:26] LAT :-7.18990, LON : -173.63491, DEPTH : 509.2751m, TEMP : 8.06135C, SAL : 34.59427 PSU, DO : 3.37168 mg/L [18:59:28] Bottom in sight [19:00:06] EX1703_DIVE02 Vehicles on Bottom [19:02:07] Good morning all [19:02:19] Good morning Asako [19:03:52] Hi Tara! I could not get up earlier but in time! [19:04:26] LAT :-7.19007, LON : -173.63474, DEPTH : 535.5569m, TEMP : 7.84475C, SAL : 34.59939 PSU, DO : 3.28732 mg/L [19:07:13] if anyone is on seascribe, we could reallyuse some help logging the observations, please [19:08:32] thanks! [19:08:35] I will log most things, but I don't do the corals because I know nothing about them. [19:09:27] LAT :-7.19008, LON : -173.63480, DEPTH : 536.7988m, TEMP : 7.89561C, SAL : 34.58238 PSU, DO : 3.20910 mg/L [19:09:33] sorry...dont have the video here [19:09:38] thanks Bruce! [19:09:39] it reminds me Paracis...but not sure [19:09:43] not sure what it is besides a plexaurid [19:10:05] I say plexaurid as well [19:10:12] reminds me of a species we saw in Indonesia [19:10:47] Also seen plexaurids with many small ophiuroids like these in the Kermadec seamounts [19:11:18] Xeno [19:11:30] pteropod shell debris [19:11:40] @Bruce is Idiastion in the Pacific [19:12:42] @Andrea - Yes. More information in a moment. Could this be Idiastion? [19:12:44] I can't hear Bruce at all [19:14:28] LAT :-7.19006, LON : -173.63478, DEPTH : 536.9310m, TEMP : 7.83714C, SAL : 34.62151 PSU, DO : 3.16942 mg/L [19:14:37] @ Andrea - Idiastion pacificum Ishida & Amaoka 1992 has been reported from the Emperor Seamounts north of the Hawaiian Islands. [19:15:17] looks like possibly Enallopsamia [19:15:39] @Andrea - I can't find records of Idiastion from the central South Pacific [19:19:28] LAT :-7.19004, LON : -173.63488, DEPTH : 534.7487m, TEMP : 7.83843C, SAL : 34.58936 PSU, DO : 3.21117 mg/L [19:20:32] @Bruce Did you notice any branching of the pectoral fin rays? I guess that would help with whether it was Idiastion or Pontinus. It did remind me of Idiastion [19:21:28] Looks like Mediaster [19:23:33] test [19:24:00] afternoon scott [19:24:29] LAT :-7.19015, LON : -173.63492, DEPTH : 521.2056m, TEMP : 7.90694C, SAL : 34.55439 PSU, DO : 3.15548 mg/L [19:25:35] Is it just my computer, or is video freezing for others? [19:26:04] stevenauscavitch leaves the room [19:26:39] video is jittery here- so quick freezes [19:26:58] Its yours I think. We have also had the problem of the center monitor going out here for awhile. [19:27:16] @Andrea - good observation. Could be. Scorpionfish reported at this depth from New Caledonia (the closest area with good information) are Neomerinthe megalepis (Fowler, 1938).Neomerinthe rotunda Chen, 1981, Phenacoscorpius megalops Fowler, 1938, Pontinus rhodochrous (Günther, 1872, and Scorpaena onaria Jordan & Snyder, 1900, Pontinus macrocephalus has been recorded from Samoa.There are also records of Ectreposebastes imus Garman, 1899, Plectrogenium nanum Gilbert, 1905, Setarches guentheri Johnson, 1862, Setarches longimanus (Alcock, 1894), Helicolenus avius Abe & Eschmeyer, 1972, and Neosebastes capricornis Motomura, 2004 in similar, related famiies. [19:28:39] taraluke leaves the room [19:29:29] LAT :-7.19014, LON : -173.63496, DEPTH : 522.0952m, TEMP : 7.62780C, SAL : 34.61567 PSU, DO : 2.93487 mg/L [19:30:35] No real insight into this scleractinian, but agree with Chris that it does not look like the Enallopsammia I am used to seeing. [19:31:08] FSH tail chopped [19:31:10] was that a half of a fish? [19:31:17] yes [19:32:14] Looked like the back half of a deep-water cardinalfish (Epigonus species, Epigonidae) that went through a cardinalfish-o-matic (eference bass-o-matic from SNL). [19:32:17] bamboo coral whip [19:32:26] bamboo whip; partly grazed? [19:32:52] @Bruce I did not think of Phenacoscropius. good possibility as well. should be easy to key out. Or send to Stuart Poss [19:33:48] Agreed: some grazing. Can see lower edge of tissue [19:34:05] Looks like a node may have been overgrown [19:34:24] I mean with CaCO3 over the node [19:34:30] LAT :-7.19018, LON : -173.63495, DEPTH : 520.5986m, TEMP : 7.58911C, SAL : 34.58300 PSU, DO : 3.11387 mg/L [19:34:32] FSH - was maybe a small sternoptychid (Sternoptychidae) like Araiophos, but it went by too fast to tell. [19:34:36] Full of eggs... [19:34:41] another of those transparent opheroid-like things on the bamboo [19:35:10] Can see inter-tentacular needles, but other sclerites hard to see [19:35:23] @Andrea - I really do wish that we could get specimens to send to Stuart Poss and others :( [19:35:23] No color to the polyps [19:35:43] So Scott, any idea of clade? [19:35:49] Very narrow axial skeleton with respect to polyp size: suggests clade S1 [19:36:05] And given the height. [19:36:30] @Andrea - but I will send screen grabs to him when I have time. Need to add him to the fish taxonomy e-mail list [19:36:37] Perhaps a recruit settled on base... [19:36:54] So one whip settled on the larger existiong whip, i.e. not a branch [19:37:38] If it is S1, then that would be "Cladarisis" like. [19:39:30] LAT :-7.19025, LON : -173.63488, DEPTH : 518.1239m, TEMP : 7.59187C, SAL : 34.58243 PSU, DO : 3.03258 mg/L [19:40:06] @Bruce he has been good at replying to my ID confirmation requests [19:41:12] santiagoherrera leaves the room: Replaced by new connection [19:44:31] LAT :-7.19029, LON : -173.63493, DEPTH : 518.0266m, TEMP : 7.61423C, SAL : 34.56274 PSU, DO : 3.00383 mg/L [19:45:04] That was an octocoral to the left of the fish [19:45:07] Is this depth in the O2 minimum zone? I noticed in the Caribbean that epigonids were abundant in relatively low O2 [19:46:01] The O2 level isn't too too low... [19:46:29] Assuming the sensor is working. There was some question after the last dive. [19:46:53] shark pair [19:47:20] Wow! [19:47:41] briankennedy leaves the room [19:47:58] I know its not too low, but I am assuming we are in the O2 min zone? [19:49:31] LAT :-7.19019, LON : -173.63495, DEPTH : 518.2584m, TEMP : 7.50762C, SAL : 34.61128 PSU, DO : 3.02982 mg/L [19:50:12] taylorheyl leaves the room [19:50:13] looks like a lot of coral rubble on the sedimented floor... [19:52:49] Is that tiny red stick a sea pen? Or a fallen spine? [19:53:05] Star looks like it is feeding. [19:53:22] For sixgill sharks - I had the wrong character. A useful one is dorsal-fin base separated from upper caudal-fin origin by a distance about equal to, or slightly greater than its length =.Hexanchus griseus Versus dorsal-fin base separated from upper caudal-fin origin by a distance much greater that its length = Hexanchus nakamurai [19:53:28] It doesnt look like a sea pen @scott [19:53:58] @Andrea: sorry - I wasn't trying to be coy, re: O2. We may be in the "O2 min" depth zone, but my point was empirically we do not seem to be. [19:54:32] LAT :-7.19027, LON : -173.63501, DEPTH : 513.6127m, TEMP : 7.59042C, SAL : 34.57240 PSU, DO : 3.00935 mg/L [19:54:40] taraluke leaves the room [19:56:13] branching coral prinoid [19:57:16] andreaquattrini leaves the room [19:59:33] LAT :-7.19030, LON : -173.63499, DEPTH : 511.4270m, TEMP : 7.60144C, SAL : 34.57958 PSU, DO : 2.88522 mg/L [19:59:44] I'll take a stab and say Paracalyptrophora [20:01:40] collect? [20:02:19] I think its worthwhile but I am totally biased [20:02:43] I am okay with a collection if so rare/unknown [20:02:55] to have associates nice too [20:02:56] Hello all ... I missed the sharks!! [20:02:57] Sorry - I had stepped out. What is the collection possibility? [20:03:21] This sponge- uknown, unseen by Chris [20:03:53] Go for it. If you have space! [20:04:04] waiting until later... [20:04:38] stevenauscavitch leaves the room [20:04:38] amandademopoulos leaves the room [20:04:39] Our video is frozen at the IRC [20:04:45] mine too [20:04:48] same here [20:04:55] Same here. [20:05:00] LAT :-7.19035, LON : -173.63505, DEPTH : 502.5794m, TEMP : 7.60310C, SAL : 34.58283 PSU, DO : 2.85268 mg/L [20:05:05] Trying to come back intermittently [20:05:14] back [20:05:57] Might be entering sun interference time [20:06:06] rock sample? [20:09:34] LAT :-7.19046, LON : -173.63505, DEPTH : 494.3202m, TEMP : 7.86977C, SAL : 34.65651 PSU, DO : 3.15058 mg/L [20:10:47] I agree with Chris that the Epigonus just seen are a different species than those seen earlier. [20:12:02] There are fish below ROV in the sand from camera 2 feed [20:12:25] My video is really jumpy so hard to see, but I think this is a primnoid [20:13:10] That crab CRA looked like a Eumunididae (sort of like a Pseudomunida to me). [20:14:31] it was primnoids with polyps downward. but I could not count the number of polyps per w.. [20:14:34] LAT :-7.19046, LON : -173.63504, DEPTH : 491.1487m, TEMP : 8.01890C, SAL : 34.60194 PSU, DO : 2.71808 mg/L [20:15:17] spikefish [20:15:54] These small octocorals look Telesto like... Will have to check on that [20:16:11] it was octocoral! [20:16:28] those octocorals would be an interesting collection…. [20:16:30] spikefish, Triacanthodidae, Hollardia species (resembles H. goslinei in Hawaii) [20:16:43] long polyps on the rock beside the FSH [20:16:51] the stoloniferous corals are ones we're keeping an eye out for sampling [20:16:54] if you needed to collect a rock or something [20:17:49] Stolonifera are hard to sample if there is no right size rock [20:19:35] LAT :-7.19046, LON : -173.63507, DEPTH : 481.9622m, TEMP : 8.10863C, SAL : 34.60797 PSU, DO : 2.71176 mg/L [20:20:20] Possible acanthogorgiid... [20:20:31] Very tall polyps relative to branches [20:20:40] agree with Scott.. Acanthogorgiid-like [20:20:47] Acanthogorgia [20:22:19] briankennedy leaves the room [20:24:36] LAT :-7.19049, LON : -173.63507, DEPTH : 481.8620m, TEMP : 8.11013C, SAL : 34.60892 PSU, DO : 3.02567 mg/L [20:25:27] checking in : are there particular interests in rocks on this seamount? I'm just want to double check [20:28:16] Uroptychus-like chirostylid on that bushy acanthogorgid-like coral- large eyes... [20:28:49] black coral like the one from dive 1...? [20:29:23] Now Tina is here! [20:29:29] Black corals DO produce a lot of mucus... [20:29:36] LAT :-7.19051, LON : -173.63510, DEPTH : 479.8903m, TEMP : 8.07953C, SAL : 34.62252 PSU, DO : 2.97866 mg/L [20:29:55] barnacles and zoanthids on stalk to left [20:29:58] scott-that is what steve said [20:30:04] can we have base? [20:30:17] @Amanda: I typed it before he said it! ;-) [20:30:24] got it [20:31:36] Actually, I'm thinking now the one we saw on dive 1 did not have the subbranches as "bottlebrush" like - I thought they were more planar. Will have to go back and look at images. [20:32:11] soniarowley leaves the room [20:32:24] erikcordes leaves the room [20:32:44] barnacles [20:33:16] @Tina: we are waiting for a genus ID from you! :-) [20:33:54] I am trying to get family [20:34:06] haha [20:34:10] more zoom? [20:34:14] Myriopathidae? [20:34:20] fulll zoom [20:34:36] LAT :-7.19053, LON : -173.63511, DEPTH : 480.0745m, TEMP : 8.02809C, SAL : 34.60657 PSU, DO : 2.91622 mg/L [20:35:05] angry eyes [20:35:32] or a large Cladopathidae? or Aphanipathidae? [20:35:38] Bruce: sorry we missed the stripped fish [20:35:49] OMG. the phone rang and I missed the squat lobster! Argh. [20:35:51] Myriopathidae or Stylopathidae [20:36:03] Tina and Scott: Leiopathes sp? [20:36:31] I only saw it through the window while eating lunch outside [20:36:52] Definitely not a Leiopathes, Chris [20:37:08] another one [20:37:15] Ok, thanks [20:37:28] Now thta I've typed that, Tina will give a different answer! [20:37:58] @Chris, no, not at all. It could be Dendrobathypathes... in fact as well [20:38:15] another zoom? [20:38:42] Thanks Tina. Don't know that genus [20:38:57] looks more like a Ceramaster sea star [20:39:21] soniarowley leaves the room [20:39:37] LAT :-7.19058, LON : -173.63510, DEPTH : 476.6682m, TEMP : 8.09351C, SAL : 34.60929 PSU, DO : 2.93132 mg/L [20:39:50] we are quite shallow, there are many possibilities [20:41:00] can we zoom on dark coral at right? [20:41:17] Tim we are on the move-sorry [20:41:23] looked like a crinoid associate on that soft coral- [20:41:24] okay [20:42:34] Sorry,Chris, Dendropathes. ; I mix these names up all the time [20:44:31] What is it overgrowing? [20:44:37] LAT :-7.19065, LON : -173.63508, DEPTH : 469.7005m, TEMP : 8.18119C, SAL : 34.61601 PSU, DO : 2.86196 mg/L [20:44:40] zigzag coral ;) [20:44:52] @Andrea: haha [20:44:55] Andrea: exactly :) [20:46:15] are you sure they are not bryozoans [20:46:48] they could be bryozoans [20:46:52] I feel its bryozoan. [20:47:06] or forams? [20:47:28] zoom at them next time [20:48:18] There are a number of these "skeletons" which the zig-zag coral was growing on [20:49:38] LAT :-7.19066, LON : -173.63505, DEPTH : 467.7005m, TEMP : 8.32889C, SAL : 34.62541 PSU, DO : 2.81730 mg/L [20:49:43] wow [20:49:43] Madrepora as well [20:49:44] if i missed it, did anyone say anything about whether a geology collection was of interest here [20:50:58] I was wondering the same... [20:53:48] Can't tell from that CU if it was a black coral, but an interesting idea. [20:54:14] O2 is dropping... [20:54:39] LAT :-7.19070, LON : -173.63509, DEPTH : 464.6863m, TEMP : 8.54386C, SAL : 34.63217 PSU, DO : 3.04482 mg/L [20:54:42] Not as fishy here as it was slightly deeper [20:55:22] This is a beauty! [20:55:39] crinoids and squat lobsters too [20:56:01] From a distance looks primnoid-y [20:56:52] collection? [20:57:03] Unusual little shrimp there. [20:57:09] Yes, it is. [20:57:24] briankennedy leaves the room [20:57:28] can we see better view of the colony first? [20:57:29] great shot of SQA [20:57:34] I have no objection to collection. But I can't make an expert opinion because we are in a depth zone I don't usually see. [20:57:35] good idea to me [20:57:45] Collect! [20:57:50] tina: do you want a full coral view [20:58:06] agree collection [20:58:21] branching pattern for Steve [20:59:03] Collect [20:59:16] try to get a branched from the base... to have some branching [20:59:39] LAT :-7.19074, LON : -173.63507, DEPTH : 465.0812m, TEMP : 8.71713C, SAL : 34.65101 PSU, DO : 3.49761 mg/L [20:59:49] say from up left [21:00:41] soniarowley leaves the room [21:01:52] I wonder if this could be Perissogorgia vitrea... We are in the right depth range. [21:02:28] If so, so far it is known only from Norfolk Ridge area. [21:03:16] See Cairns NZ primnoids Fig 63C, p. 107 [21:03:27] I mean his most recent 2016 pub [21:03:49] that might be possible since it seems we are in a biogeographic province that is different from that of the Hawaiian ridge [21:03:56] Scott, the fauna may be very close to Norfolk Ridge here [21:04:22] Just working on the chirostylids- looks like Eumunida (resembles but not E. funambulus)- the depth is about right as well if it were this species. [21:04:40] LAT :-7.19076, LON : -173.63510, DEPTH : 465.0382m, TEMP : 8.83945C, SAL : 34.65583 PSU, DO : 3.44009 mg/L [21:04:42] Really hope a chirostylids comes along with the sample... [21:04:59] @Tina: yes - that is why I check the New Caledonia fauna for comparisons. [21:06:01] briankennedy leaves the room [21:06:02] @Scott, Tina - also why I mention species from New Caledonia for the fishes [21:07:13] These primnoid branches can be tough! [21:07:22] Try cutting. [21:08:20] scott the spot that he had was too long-wouldn't have fit in box i'm afraid [21:08:39] @Amanda: no worries. I tots agree with you. [21:08:48] totes [21:09:14] @Amanda: right. Tots. I totes agree with you. [21:09:40] LAT :-7.19075, LON : -173.63510, DEPTH : 464.9838m, TEMP : 8.18547C, SAL : 34.61926 PSU, DO : 3.43619 mg/L [21:10:10] the chirostylid definitely knows how to avoid being prey! [21:11:53] yep... need a suction hose... [21:12:05] tim: exactly [21:12:34] I think the chirostylid is coming back to its home [21:12:35] @Les did you see the crabs? Any thoughts on ID? [21:12:54] I think they always do...smart crabs [21:13:03] @Tim, I didn't get a real good look but will check on the replay [21:13:37] D2_DIVE02_SPEC01BIO [21:14:41] LAT :-7.19075, LON : -173.63509, DEPTH : 463.6469m, TEMP : 8.19815C, SAL : 34.61729 PSU, DO : 3.37984 mg/L [21:16:00] randirotjan leaves the room [21:17:53] stalked CRIs [21:19:00] ophiocanthid ophs on stalked crinoids [21:19:13] chat-admin leaves the room [21:19:41] LAT :-7.19076, LON : -173.63518, DEPTH : 463.5189m, TEMP : 8.06817C, SAL : 34.61035 PSU, DO : 3.34656 mg/L [21:22:03] andreaquattrini leaves the room [21:22:03] Black coral Stichopathes [21:23:24] Good view of the "raised" moths [21:23:35] *mouths [21:23:48] soniarowley leaves the room [21:24:03] christopherkelley leaves the room [21:24:31] Raised underwater moths would be interesting, Scott. [21:24:42] LAT :-7.19081, LON : -173.63511, DEPTH : 460.4054m, TEMP : 8.13515C, SAL : 34.61209 PSU, DO : 3.37969 mg/L [21:24:47] u guys are funny [21:27:04] @Tara: I'll bet we'd want a collection of those moths! [21:27:53] It's Mah time. I have not seen this before... [21:28:01] Nice medusa in Serios view a moment ago [21:28:20] @Scott definitely! [21:28:57] can we zoom at anemones next to asteroid ? [21:29:42] LAT :-7.19083, LON : -173.63519, DEPTH : 458.8147m, TEMP : 8.18774C, SAL : 34.61754 PSU, DO : 3.40223 mg/L [21:31:36] hermit crab [21:32:42] taraluke leaves the room [21:33:23] no geologists on line it seems. Should we be thinking of a rock sample? [21:34:18] lots of larger rubble pieces [21:34:28] parasite on fish? [21:34:29] My guess is this is too shallow for interest by the geologists, but it would be nice to hear that from one of them. All carbonates? [21:34:43] LAT :-7.19086, LON : -173.63517, DEPTH : 453.9746m, TEMP : 8.69336C, SAL : 34.64516 PSU, DO : 3.51793 mg/L [21:35:39] We can keep a lookout for a rock of sufficient size. [21:35:55] If carbonate isn't wanted though it would be good to know [21:36:02] Don't really see any loose pieces [21:36:51] maybe we can fnd rock with stolonifera... [21:37:32] Perhaps a bamboo or melithaeid in the background [21:38:29] Likely plexauridae... [21:38:44] impossible number of ophiuroids [21:38:49] interesting that there are polyps all over the main branches [21:39:05] Interesting that it is not unusual to see purple and yellow colors together on plexaurids. [21:39:37] keroides/paracis in Hawaii often have this color set [21:39:43] LAT :-7.19093, LON : -173.63524, DEPTH : 449.6616m, TEMP : 8.81251C, SAL : 34.64637 PSU, DO : 3.45732 mg/L [21:39:45] but it doesn't match those [21:40:16] perhaps we should grab a piece of the plexaurid [21:40:22] i would second that [21:40:27] crinoids on this stalk are enormous [21:40:53] Crazy - almost looks like structure of an Isis skeleton, but no way this deep... [21:40:55] others interested in the plexaurid? [21:41:11] no ridges on the internodes @Scott [21:41:17] It is just SO OLD and overgrown nodes. [21:41:17] amybowman leaves the room [21:41:25] I'm interested in plexaurid of course. [21:41:34] @Les: yes, I know it isn't really Isis... [21:41:46] @Les: I just meant the narrowed nodes. [21:42:09] I'd support plexaurid collection. [21:42:18] Plexaurid with associate [21:42:33] Yeah@Scott, looks like Keratoisis magnifica of Duenas and Sanchez [21:42:36] Thick axis - pretty old, I'd guess. [21:42:45] @Les: agreed. An old one. [21:42:51] may be good to take a piece of plexaurid. with ophiuroids [21:43:07] Woody, likely needs cutting, not snapping. [21:43:27] CRI and OPH do share half and half of the colony. [21:43:45] If you try to bend and break a branch, you run the ris of dislodging entire colony from the holdfast. [21:43:53] *run the risk [21:44:03] I'd recommend cutters [21:44:27] I just noticed the depth, I feel like we see thi in Hawaii at Makapuu maybe a little shallower [21:44:34] I would cut off a top branch [21:44:44] LAT :-7.19092, LON : -173.63516, DEPTH : 449.5286m, TEMP : 8.89056C, SAL : 34.66388 PSU, DO : 3.48276 mg/L [21:49:36] hopefully have some small ophs on this collection... [21:49:45] LAT :-7.19092, LON : -173.63515, DEPTH : 449.3425m, TEMP : 8.88011C, SAL : 34.65952 PSU, DO : 3.46147 mg/L [21:50:17] The small ophs were located almost on the center. I think we grabbed deep enough but we will see [21:51:51] I only see the one large one, with its widely spaced arms. [21:52:01] santiagoherrera leaves the room: Replaced by new connection [21:52:07] Me too Scott. Might be more... [21:52:15] peterauster leaves the room [21:54:45] LAT :-7.19090, LON : -173.63515, DEPTH : 449.3473m, TEMP : 8.83869C, SAL : 34.65770 PSU, DO : 3.43192 mg/L [21:56:20] video frozen here [21:56:37] its back [21:57:25] Another of the Keratoisis "magnifica" mostly or all dead [21:58:01] Bamboo coral! [21:58:02] Is that a live section on the left? [21:58:19] Yes, looks alive. Is it original, or a recruit? [21:59:12] I think I see branching at nodes.. [21:59:27] yes there is [21:59:46] LAT :-7.19100, LON : -173.63518, DEPTH : 442.8042m, TEMP : 8.75924C, SAL : 34.65314 PSU, DO : 3.44478 mg/L [21:59:55] looks like this is a live branch [22:00:04] Thanks for CU [22:00:09] Stenopod shrimp? [22:00:20] Chrostylid there too [22:00:21] would be nice to have a piece of this one too! [22:00:30] Anemone or zoanthid overgrowth as well [22:00:57] briankennedy leaves the room [22:01:59] what has happened here? All the coral rubble is all piled up [22:02:17] its like it all slid downhill [22:03:46] very large corals here [22:04:19] these must be very old! [22:04:46] LAT :-7.19105, LON : -173.63535, DEPTH : 437.8226m, TEMP : 8.75168C, SAL : 34.65060 PSU, DO : 3.47079 mg/L [22:05:55] don't see smaller ophiuroids on this coral [22:05:57] looks like an old home for old brittle stars [22:06:32] yes, we didn't see any of these large fans further S in A. Samoa at these depths (did 3 dives) [22:06:47] another old home primnoid coral colony [22:09:47] LAT :-7.19122, LON : -173.63538, DEPTH : 426.9269m, TEMP : 9.02788C, SAL : 34.67112 PSU, DO : 3.46146 mg/L [22:10:49] jillbourque leaves the room [22:11:10] Swiftia? [22:11:19] amybacotaylor leaves the room [22:14:47] LAT :-7.19139, LON : -173.63531, DEPTH : 419.1089m, TEMP : 9.63517C, SAL : 34.72200 PSU, DO : 3.31060 mg/L [22:15:16] sea pen?\ [22:15:33] was that a black coral resembling Parantipathes? [22:16:28] spikefish, Triancanthodidae, but probably not Hollardia [22:18:19] Percophidae, Chrionema chryseres, green-spotted duckbill fish [22:19:48] LAT :-7.19142, LON : -173.63532, DEPTH : 416.1210m, TEMP : 9.75772C, SAL : 34.72111 PSU, DO : 3.30484 mg/L [22:20:22] another red colony passed [22:20:56] Perhaps a Stauropathes...? [22:21:42] Audio on the telecon from the ship is breaking up a little [22:24:10] that one was the oldest yet! [22:24:31] base was >10cm diameter! [22:24:48] LAT :-7.19149, LON : -173.63541, DEPTH : 406.3933m, TEMP : 9.82804C, SAL : 34.72206 PSU, DO : 3.30907 mg/L [22:26:36] this sponge looks like it fell off the rock? [22:27:37] looks like a candy strip shrimp...perhaps in the "barrel sponge" [22:27:45] "stripe" [22:29:49] LAT :-7.19159, LON : -173.63543, DEPTH : 398.8154m, TEMP : 9.86136C, SAL : 34.72727 PSU, DO : 3.25627 mg/L [22:31:41] splendid perch, Grammatonotus cf. laysanus, family Callanthiidae [22:34:49] LAT :-7.19166, LON : -173.63553, DEPTH : 391.7483m, TEMP : 9.87703C, SAL : 34.72880 PSU, DO : 3.29942 mg/L [22:37:54] nataliesummers leaves the room [22:38:28] Randall's snapper, Randallichthys filamentosus, family Lutjanidae [22:38:49] Good video on that. Thank you! [22:39:50] LAT :-7.19181, LON : -173.63558, DEPTH : 381.3656m, TEMP : 10.03133C, SAL : 34.73920 PSU, DO : 3.20254 mg/L [22:41:06] amandanetburn leaves the room [22:44:50] LAT :-7.19197, LON : -173.63565, DEPTH : 371.5233m, TEMP : 10.28914C, SAL : 34.75865 PSU, DO : 3.13624 mg/L [22:48:24] briankennedy leaves the room [22:49:51] LAT :-7.19202, LON : -173.63561, DEPTH : 371.1681m, TEMP : 10.33580C, SAL : 34.76207 PSU, DO : 3.11345 mg/L [22:51:10] Cyttomimus, species, family Zeniontidae, order Zeiformes [22:52:32] amandademopoulos leaves the room [22:52:32] andrewobrien leaves the room [22:52:38] Grammatonotus cf. laysanus, Callanthiidae, splendid perch [22:53:50] do you see shimmering water? hard to tell from the I1 resolution [22:54:26] Not really apparent to me here. Ill keep an eye out [22:54:38] not apparent here either... [22:54:52] LAT :-7.19210, LON : -173.63572, DEPTH : 361.2618m, TEMP : 11.17752C, SAL : 34.82117 PSU, DO : 2.79088 mg/L [22:54:53] Lots of primnoids on this rock to the left [22:55:33] numerous Epigonus and another Chrionema a few minutes ago [22:55:57] crinoids like to live on the edge [22:57:16] @Les: do you mean they are daring? [22:57:27] boarfish, Antigonia species, family Caproidae, unusual color though [22:58:21] @Scott, the beauty of English.... you can put your own meaning to the word [22:59:52] LAT :-7.19218, LON : -173.63575, DEPTH : 354.8717m, TEMP : 11.34812C, SAL : 34.83524 PSU, DO : 2.70356 mg/L [23:03:59] Plesiobatis daviesi, familiy Plesiobatidae, the deepwater stingray [23:04:53] LAT :-7.19224, LON : -173.63590, DEPTH : 346.4282m, TEMP : 11.40171C, SAL : 34.84054 PSU, DO : 2.69619 mg/L [23:05:06] The fact that the polyps are "head" down is of use for taxonomy [23:05:20] Could be a Narella. [23:05:48] which isn't saying much given how diverse that genus is! [23:06:07] suggest collection? [23:06:48] Agree: anemone [23:07:13] I think we have seen many of them now, they are representative of this location, and knowing who these anemones are (the only coral-assocaited anemones on the dive) would be important (not to mention the small ophiuroids as well. [23:07:24]