[00:01:46] I used to like sunsets...' [00:02:08] Ha. [00:02:27] Any idea of off bottom time? We are pretty deep. [00:04:45] at Dive09, we offed bottom about 1hr later from now. but not sure for this dive. [00:05:22] they come back and audio and video also back! [00:05:43] off bottom in 1hr 15min [00:06:05] okexnav leaves the room [00:06:13] nicolemorgan leaves the room [00:06:13] Thank you Amanda! [00:07:06] no problem [00:07:11] amandademopoulos leaves the room [00:08:22] nolanbarrett leaves the room [00:08:36] Stupid sun fade. ;-) [00:09:15] looks like Bathycrinus [00:10:10] LAT :0.80514, LON : -176.67221, DEPTH : 2169.2912m, TEMP : 2.13605C, SAL : 34.64532 PSU, DO : 3.43137 mg/L [00:10:49] That is because you didn't take MY class! :-) [00:11:07] I thought that would elicit a response [00:11:13] well back to school for me [00:11:28] christopherkelley leaves the room [00:11:42] Somehow I don't think most of my students thank me for introducing them to myzostomes, but if they were watching now... :-) [00:12:14] is this the sponge collected during sun fade? [00:12:19] Actually, it is only the past few years I have been including them because before that it wasn't clear what phylum they belonged to. [00:12:27] sorry , not the one [00:14:01] sound on the streamed video is ok if choppy [00:15:11] LAT :0.80521, LON : -176.67220, DEPTH : 2165.2749m, TEMP : 2.14217C, SAL : 34.64548 PSU, DO : 3.43041 mg/L [00:16:28] Cue the sun fade again... [00:16:52] yes it is! [00:17:38] christopherkelley leaves the room [00:18:03] ophiuroids and barnacles on that Jasonisis. [00:20:12] LAT :0.80540, LON : -176.67217, DEPTH : 2160.8812m, TEMP : 2.14313C, SAL : 34.64615 PSU, DO : 3.40670 mg/L [00:20:20] OMG, you guys are getting punchy! Is tonight the big event? [00:20:34] Shaggy dog Walteria. [00:20:38] @Chris, Shirley: These seems like a pretty tall collection of these "Walteria" [00:21:08] This looks like the love child of Iridogorgia and Walteria... [00:21:13] For sure! [00:21:21] OMG....that is too funny, Scott! [00:21:33] stuck on a rock... [00:21:57] Excellent Scott, I'm going to steal that one from you. [00:23:16] Iridowalteria.. [00:24:19] Walteridogorgia? [00:24:40] shirley: i can neither confirm no deny [00:24:48] nor deny [00:25:12] LAT :0.80539, LON : -176.67218, DEPTH : 2156.1448m, TEMP : 2.14721C, SAL : 34.64419 PSU, DO : 3.40680 mg/L [00:25:24] briankennedy leaves the room [00:27:30] nice zoanthids!! [00:28:06] could you count the tentacles in that zoom? [00:28:39] I did not. We have some better screen grabs of other colonies in full zoom [00:28:49] roger [00:29:03] These Narella colonies could be Narella bowersi I suppose. Very long segments before each branch branches [00:30:06] Not used to seeing these asteroschmatids on the rock... [00:30:13] LAT :0.80539, LON : -176.67210, DEPTH : 2155.0536m, TEMP : 2.14330C, SAL : 34.64531 PSU, DO : 3.45341 mg/L [00:31:19] switch lasers off for a second or two to get good framegrab? [00:31:44] Weird... the placement I mean. Who kicked it off its coral? [00:32:51] Maybe they are like elephants - they wander away to die. [00:33:10] but it looks healthy for me.. [00:33:19] Also interesting that it is sitting on the local high. [00:33:39] Perhaps it is waiting for a coral recruit to come along and grow. It will have a long wait! [00:34:16] perhaps stretched out to signal the larvae in! [00:34:23] bizarre [00:34:47] @scott. Wander away to die! Bahahaha! [00:35:00] taraluke leaves the room [00:35:14] LAT :0.80549, LON : -176.67192, DEPTH : 2155.8750m, TEMP : 2.14375C, SAL : 34.64519 PSU, DO : 3.38267 mg/L [00:38:00] eyes out for little red jellies sitting on the sediment [00:38:19] should be enough food for them with the flat sediment here [00:38:53] echinothurid, I guess. Spines are pretty straight and stiff though [00:40:00] Hmmm... [00:40:14] LAT :0.80542, LON : -176.67178, DEPTH : 2152.3317m, TEMP : 2.14766C, SAL : 34.64382 PSU, DO : 3.37532 mg/L [00:40:18] Yes, exactly Scott. Hmmmm. [00:40:31] I want to say sea pen again, but I'm still red-faced from the last time I did so and it was a bamboo... [00:40:50] I think its a sea pen [00:40:50] Okay, this one IS a sea pen... [00:40:52] I think. [00:40:54] scott: i didn't say and nodes [00:40:56] :-) [00:40:58] :) [00:41:07] I undertsnad your tyoing Amanda. [00:41:24] oh boy, i must be tired, sorry [00:43:12] i type by feel, but sometimes my fingers type out of order [00:44:23] I sometimes slip my finger to choose tab on Seascribe. [00:44:28] That last sea pen - my best initial guess Anthoptilum or Kophobelemnon [00:44:55] I'm still a hunt-and-peck typist. [00:45:15] LAT :0.80564, LON : -176.67164, DEPTH : 2149.0029m, TEMP : 2.14608C, SAL : 34.64493 PSU, DO : 3.47304 mg/L [00:46:56] I'm a morpho typist [00:47:11] @Chris: ??? [00:48:20] @Amanda: please see my question in sidebar. [00:48:42] Even if the id is wrong, it still gives you an idea of what the animal looked like, which is why I like to go as far as possible understanding it is only a morphotype id [00:50:15] LAT :0.80584, LON : -176.67153, DEPTH : 2148.6211m, TEMP : 2.14942C, SAL : 34.64506 PSU, DO : 3.46706 mg/L [00:51:07] Interesting.... colony. [00:51:15] Its probably Victorgorgia, but not sure [00:51:48] I guess it could be some kind of anthothelid, but different from others I've seen. [00:51:49] egg mass or ring anemone...I think egg mass, and asterschematid ophiuroid on this purple coral. Big colony. [00:51:59] There's a stichopathes on the right [00:52:03] could see "individual" eggs.. [00:52:13] They look like fish egg masses we've seen on Metallogorgia in the Atlantic. [00:52:17] Heteropathes [00:53:17] @Scott. Agree. [00:53:48] @Tim: didn't your student take those for sequencing? [00:53:52] Perhaps the inspiration for that 70s rock band: Deep Purple [00:53:59] New bamboo coral? [00:54:16] River deep, mountain hi-eye-eye... [00:54:42] Smoke "in" the water [00:55:04] @Chris: Nice! [00:55:15] @Scott. Yes, turned out to be fish eggs. Can't remember closest species/where they fell out. [00:55:17] LAT :0.80599, LON : -176.67160, DEPTH : 2140.6121m, TEMP : 2.14658C, SAL : 34.64460 PSU, DO : 3.42613 mg/L [00:55:42] @Tim: no worries. I can't even recall your student's name! [00:56:50] My laptop battery is about to die, so this is as good a signal as any for me to sign off. Enjoy the last 10 minutes. [00:57:43] @scott. have a great night. [00:58:09] see you Scott! [00:59:20] Tomorrow Scott [01:00:16] LAT :0.80604, LON : -176.67139, DEPTH : 2136.5045m, TEMP : 2.14953C, SAL : 34.64462 PSU, DO : 3.34236 mg/L [01:02:44] katharineweathers leaves the room [01:03:16] Switched laptops... You aren't quite rid of me yet. :-) [01:03:35] I knew if I left you'd find the most amazing thing. [01:03:43] umbellapathes =- frequently has a crab on it... [01:05:17] LAT :0.80625, LON : -176.67124, DEPTH : 2128.0794m, TEMP : 2.14698C, SAL : 34.64513 PSU, DO : 3.37346 mg/L [01:10:18] LAT :0.80635, LON : -176.67109, DEPTH : 2117.3395m, TEMP : 2.15287C, SAL : 34.64404 PSU, DO : 3.38392 mg/L [01:15:18] LAT :0.80637, LON : -176.67088, DEPTH : 2108.1343m, TEMP : 2.14704C, SAL : 34.64533 PSU, DO : 3.43162 mg/L [01:15:30] Trissopathes ? Asako? [01:15:44] Did we get an earlier look at that sparsely branched colony (presumably a bamboo)? [01:16:23] @Chris. which do you mean?sorry I may missed it [01:17:33] Thought I saw a Trissopathes a moment ago but wasn't sure [01:18:48] Bassozetus sp [01:19:36] @Chris. I don't think I could see it, at least the one looked like Trissopathes. [01:20:19] LAT :0.80645, LON : -176.67072, DEPTH : 2095.1562m, TEMP : 2.14534C, SAL : 34.64398 PSU, DO : 3.37830 mg/L [01:25:20] LAT :0.80647, LON : -176.67063, DEPTH : 2087.1681m, TEMP : 2.16272C, SAL : 34.64415 PSU, DO : 3.38334 mg/L [01:26:10] EX1703_DIVE11 Vehicles Ascending [01:26:29] Alors, a demain! Bon soir! [01:26:53] tomorrow all! [01:26:59] christopherkelley leaves the room [01:27:00] see you tomorrow! [01:27:28] it was nice to come back here. Thank you for the diving plan! [01:27:33] asakomatsumoto leaves the room [01:27:48] shirleypomponi leaves the room [01:30:20] LAT :0.80626, LON : -176.67104, DEPTH : 2006.6058m, TEMP : 2.28793C, SAL : 34.63920 PSU, DO : 3.21552 mg/L [01:32:29] scottfrance leaves the room [01:32:31] tiny bit more forward movement while ascending would increase chances of getting animals in focus. possible? [01:35:20] LAT :0.80618, LON : -176.67094, DEPTH : 1858.4487m, TEMP : 2.46942C, SAL : 34.63038 PSU, DO : 3.09752 mg/L [01:37:09] midwater gorgonian!! [01:37:44] bit of entrapment of water parcel I would say [01:37:48] I think it was a crinoid [01:38:10] not one of the samples you took I hope... [01:38:42] nope [01:40:21] LAT :0.80609, LON : -176.67110, DEPTH : 1713.3844m, TEMP : 2.55487C, SAL : 34.62405 PSU, DO : 3.11852 mg/L [01:45:21] LAT :0.80613, LON : -176.67095, DEPTH : 1568.9736m, TEMP : 2.83716C, SAL : 34.60962 PSU, DO : 3.07569 mg/L [01:47:07] medusa? video hiccupped... [01:47:41] looked like it might have been a trachymedusa.. [01:50:22] LAT :0.80620, LON : -176.67102, DEPTH : 1418.9858m, TEMP : 3.28273C, SAL : 34.59280 PSU, DO : 2.71131 mg/L [01:55:22] LAT :0.80656, LON : -176.67107, DEPTH : 1272.8574m, TEMP : 3.42604C, SAL : 34.58776 PSU, DO : 2.70571 mg/L [01:59:24] timothyshank leaves the room [02:00:23] LAT :0.80676, LON : -176.67068, DEPTH : 1123.8064m, TEMP : 4.06967C, SAL : 34.56592 PSU, DO : 2.50842 mg/L [02:00:29] stevenauscavitch leaves the room [02:00:47] An ulmarid scyphozoan just before and then a cydippid ctenophore [02:01:37] what was that!!? Wasn't on main camera. Cydippid tentacle maybe? [02:05:24] LAT :0.80672, LON : -176.67056, DEPTH : 963.0174m, TEMP : 4.77218C, SAL : 34.54630 PSU, DO : 2.59209 mg/L [02:06:15] was on left side. no tentillae. very large so possible Aulacoctenid [02:09:57] unless the ROV is electric then the hydraulic pump drowns out all other sounds [02:10:25] LAT :0.80660, LON : -176.67014, DEPTH : 827.2690m, TEMP : 5.25632C, SAL : 34.54073 PSU, DO : 2.67334 mg/L [02:10:29] I have put GoPros with built-in microphones in 3000m housings and the screaming of the hydraulics is amazing.. [02:11:22] May be possible to filter it out with software of course... [02:12:20] big target. Siphonophore or cydippid. Can't tell from the streamed video.. [02:15:25] LAT :0.80646, LON : -176.66968, DEPTH : 678.8608m, TEMP : 6.44500C, SAL : 34.55634 PSU, DO : 2.14603 mg/L [02:16:49] doliolid nurse maybe... [02:17:08] Beroe? [02:17:42] all too small to get IDs at this speed. My bet is there are Rhizaria here also but we just can't see them.. [02:18:39] Quite a lot of midwater biomass.. Effect of equatorial upwelling perhaps [02:20:26] LAT :0.80666, LON : -176.66905, DEPTH : 527.0435m, TEMP : 7.03764C, SAL : 34.56690 PSU, DO : 2.16104 mg/L [02:20:34] big target. larvacean? [02:21:13] pyrosome [02:24:39] so many comms outages that video is jerking all over the place. Any IDs and observations are a bit of roulette [02:24:57] seems like heaps of stuff here.. [02:25:26] LAT :0.80687, LON : -176.66835, DEPTH : 376.5729m, TEMP : 9.84985C, SAL : 34.70033 PSU, DO : 2.19713 mg/L [02:30:27] LAT :0.80699, LON : -176.66770, DEPTH : 228.2284m, TEMP : 13.58973C, SAL : 34.95458 PSU, DO : 4.27680 mg/L [02:32:43] amandademopoulos leaves the room [02:35:27] LAT :0.80728, LON : -176.66735, DEPTH : 81.6069m, TEMP : 26.52077C, SAL : 35.19549 PSU, DO : 5.81807 mg/L [02:36:31] lights off so end of observations. Thanks for the dive! [02:36:52] dhugallindsay leaves the room [02:40:28] LAT :0.80731, LON : -176.66757, DEPTH : 50.7645m, TEMP : 26.67967C, SAL : 35.16727 PSU, DO : 5.99563 mg/L [02:45:29] LAT :0.80795, LON : -176.66716, DEPTH : 3.6458m, TEMP : 27.02206C, SAL : 35.18763 PSU, DO : 6.28013 mg/L [02:45:38] EX1703_DIVE11 Recovery Complete [03:17:23] amandanetburn leaves the room [04:38:19] mashkoormalik leaves the room [17:02:46] iscwatch2 leaves the room: Replaced by new connection [17:28:36] iscwatch2 leaves the room [17:33:45] predive test [18:02:07] amandademopoulos leaves the room [18:09:20] EX1703_DIVE12 Rov Launch [18:16:45] EX1703_DIVE12 Vehicles in the Water [18:17:30] EX1703_DIVE12 Vehicles Descending [18:18:17] LAT :0.14758, LON : -176.45880, DEPTH : 15.1113m, TEMP : 27.01156C, SAL : 35.26812 PSU, DO : 6.35821 mg/L [18:23:18] LAT :0.14746, LON : -176.46015, DEPTH : 49.7317m, TEMP : 26.88582C, SAL : 35.27782 PSU, DO : 6.25242 mg/L [18:28:18] LAT :0.14759, LON : -176.45974, DEPTH : 147.9468m, TEMP : 20.21796C, SAL : 35.24449 PSU, DO : 4.50479 mg/L [18:33:19] LAT :0.14725, LON : -176.45912, DEPTH : 279.4698m, TEMP : 11.41070C, SAL : 34.80040 PSU, DO : 3.22561 mg/L [18:38:19] LAT :0.14732, LON : -176.45942, DEPTH : 432.0902m, TEMP : 9.56035C, SAL : 34.68830 PSU, DO : 2.39126 mg/L [18:43:20] LAT :0.14725, LON : -176.45927, DEPTH : 586.2550m, TEMP : 6.85460C, SAL : 34.56321 PSU, DO : 2.24228 mg/L [18:48:20] LAT :0.14731, LON : -176.45947, DEPTH : 719.9455m, TEMP : 6.60481C, SAL : 34.55984 PSU, DO : 2.11810 mg/L [18:53:21] LAT :0.14723, LON : -176.45977, DEPTH : 880.0942m, TEMP : 5.30763C, SAL : 34.53664 PSU, DO : 2.77731 mg/L [18:58:22] LAT :0.14699, LON : -176.45993, DEPTH : 1040.0615m, TEMP : 4.69673C, SAL : 34.54922 PSU, DO : 2.71216 mg/L [19:03:22] LAT :0.14670, LON : -176.46069, DEPTH : 1190.1015m, TEMP : 4.12737C, SAL : 34.56361 PSU, DO : 2.53580 mg/L [19:08:23] LAT :0.14671, LON : -176.46093, DEPTH : 1344.5354m, TEMP : 3.37525C, SAL : 34.58796 PSU, DO : 2.70610 mg/L [19:08:33] morning all [19:08:48] good morning :) [19:13:23] LAT :0.14705, LON : -176.46090, DEPTH : 1505.2541m, TEMP : 3.11205C, SAL : 34.59783 PSU, DO : 2.85379 mg/L [19:16:28] corrected seascribe link for today https://divelog.oceannetworks.ca/Dive?diveId=604 [19:16:47] thanks brian, do you know if the octopod highlight is live? [19:18:24] LAT :0.14732, LON : -176.46105, DEPTH : 1654.8070m, TEMP : 2.81923C, SAL : 34.61023 PSU, DO : 3.04776 mg/L [19:19:38] Good morning EX. The drive looks great for seeing habitat diversity. Let's do this. [19:20:59] thanks tim! [19:23:25] LAT :0.14734, LON : -176.46129, DEPTH : 1765.9524m, TEMP : 2.48958C, SAL : 34.62762 PSU, DO : 3.16244 mg/L [19:28:25] LAT :0.14742, LON : -176.46127, DEPTH : 1845.0745m, TEMP : 2.41159C, SAL : 34.63156 PSU, DO : 3.09433 mg/L [19:31:14] EX1703_DIVE12 Vehicles on Bottom [19:32:04] sediment chute...maybe [19:33:26] LAT :0.14747, LON : -176.46069, DEPTH : 1856.9765m, TEMP : 2.41379C, SAL : 34.63167 PSU, DO : 3.16223 mg/L [19:34:20] anenome and brisingid [19:35:06] stevenauscavitch leaves the room [19:36:13] Good morning all [19:37:51] Good morning Asako. [19:38:26] LAT :0.14756, LON : -176.46061, DEPTH : 1856.9527m, TEMP : 2.41661C, SAL : 34.63468 PSU, DO : 3.10675 mg/L [19:38:57] Hi Tim! [19:39:08] HI Asako! [19:39:54] no associates on that bamboo whip [19:39:58] no apparent associates [19:40:09] Hi Amanda! [19:40:15] nematocarcinid shrimp on rock [19:43:11] associate ophiuroid on that pink purple coral, white, spines on ventral side, disc not visible, tube feet not visible [19:43:26] LAT :0.14751, LON : -176.46064, DEPTH : 1855.9113m, TEMP : 2.40855C, SAL : 34.63155 PSU, DO : 3.12191 mg/L [19:45:05] no apparent associates on anthomastus [19:48:27] LAT :0.14766, LON : -176.46061, DEPTH : 1850.9842m, TEMP : 2.41661C, SAL : 34.63134 PSU, DO : 3.20397 mg/L [19:52:44] hardly to hear the call in the stream audio. call is breaking [19:53:19] Tim-is your mike by your mouth? [19:53:27] LAT :0.14762, LON : -176.46059, DEPTH : 1849.2657m, TEMP : 2.41644C, SAL : 34.63169 PSU, DO : 3.11927 mg/L [19:53:49] if i turn up the volume on my side i can hear you, Tim, but then Steve is too loud :) [19:57:17] I will try to speak more distinctly- I am using my iphone.... [19:57:27] Yes, the mic is by my mouth :-) [19:58:28] LAT :0.14786, LON : -176.46046, DEPTH : 1841.7033m, TEMP : 2.41475C, SAL : 34.63307 PSU, DO : 3.10161 mg/L [20:01:55] The swimming shrimp we likely saw was considered in the genus Plesiopenaeus (for many years)- now is in the genus Aristaeopsis. [20:03:28] LAT :0.14791, LON : -176.46055, DEPTH : 1840.1976m, TEMP : 2.40973C, SAL : 34.63103 PSU, DO : 3.11419 mg/L [20:03:52] ophiocanthid oph on the sponge [20:04:00] tim: ha [20:04:35] Aboral plates obvious on that ophiuroid. [20:05:50] Thank you for that ophiuroid zoom! [20:06:01] tim: how's the weather? [20:06:01] Of course [20:08:29] LAT :0.14790, LON : -176.46034, DEPTH : 1835.1807m, TEMP : 2.42118C, SAL : 34.63046 PSU, DO : 3.20315 mg/L [20:09:08] @ Amanda. Ha. Small flurries and blowing a gale here out of the SW. 36F. Rubbing it in? [20:10:16] no-just want to make sure it is safe for u to drive and be alone in the ECC :) [20:12:41] no holothurians yet today.... [20:13:30] LAT :0.14801, LON : -176.46025, DEPTH : 1828.2923m, TEMP : 2.41407C, SAL : 34.63096 PSU, DO : 3.16203 mg/L [20:13:52] I can't see the weather outside. still dark... [20:15:33] Not sure what to say about the long straight lines going down the hill [20:15:46] batfish- wow- stark contrast to the sediments [20:16:23] I doubt there was bottom fishing here, so maybe something slid downhill [20:16:25] Solocisquama sp [20:16:41] maybe [20:17:52] les: there were several boulders down hill, so i've been speculating out load that those depressions might be caused by down slope transport of rocks [20:18:31] LAT :0.14800, LON : -176.46024, DEPTH : 1826.5984m, TEMP : 2.41013C, SAL : 34.63274 PSU, DO : 3.13782 mg/L [20:18:47] gerat @Amanda, thanks [20:19:10] Not sure at all after this close look. Could be and likely am completely wrong [20:19:58] that's why i say maybe chris, but batfish is correct group, i believe [20:22:19] maybe :) [20:23:00] Yes, you are absolutely right on the group [20:23:23] oh great, still earning my fish stripes :) [20:23:31] LAT :0.14803, LON : -176.46014, DEPTH : 1822.9289m, TEMP : 2.40951C, SAL : 34.63219 PSU, DO : 3.18843 mg/L [20:24:15] pectinid bivalves on rock [20:26:07] scaleworm likely, with very clear scales [20:26:29] polynoidae [20:26:53] thanks Jill! [20:28:13] erineaston leaves the room [20:28:32] LAT :0.14807, LON : -176.46013, DEPTH : 1818.1798m, TEMP : 2.41227C, SAL : 34.63123 PSU, DO : 3.15185 mg/L [20:33:32] LAT :0.14815, LON : -176.45996, DEPTH : 1802.2465m, TEMP : 2.45866C, SAL : 34.62838 PSU, DO : 3.09052 mg/L [20:33:44] amandademopoulos leaves the room [20:35:33] stevenauscavitch leaves the room [20:38:22] no associates on stichopathes whip [20:38:33] LAT :0.14813, LON : -176.45988, DEPTH : 1796.9683m, TEMP : 2.45804C, SAL : 34.62962 PSU, DO : 3.17905 mg/L [20:39:36] Euplectellidae [20:40:52] that white ophiuroid on that sponge looks like the one we imaged at the top of a previous sponge. [20:42:34] jillbourque leaves the room [20:42:36] any idea about the big rattail that we saw? could it have been Coryphaenoides cf. armatus? [20:43:30] I think this is our first coral associate of the dive- tightly wrapped oph on chrysogorgia [20:43:33] LAT :0.14816, LON : -176.45983, DEPTH : 1794.1595m, TEMP : 2.45584C, SAL : 34.63017 PSU, DO : 3.09220 mg/L [20:45:27] tightly wrapped ophiuroid- can see oral disk initially. Skinny arms, taper slowly. Note that oral disc can be informative for ID'ing too. :-) [20:46:55] peterauster leaves the room [20:48:34] LAT :0.14824, LON : -176.45976, DEPTH : 1795.4327m, TEMP : 2.48068C, SAL : 34.62914 PSU, DO : 3.10209 mg/L [20:49:41] tim: thanks for the info on the ophs [20:51:42] :-) [20:53:35] LAT :0.14822, LON : -176.45982, DEPTH : 1792.2868m, TEMP : 2.46435C, SAL : 34.62904 PSU, DO : 3.15330 mg/L [20:53:52] wow. love the stairs [20:53:56] columnar jointing [20:54:12] volcanic! [20:54:19] basalts tend to fracture along rectangular lines [20:54:54] can you look left? [20:55:09] thanks deb-fish then rocks, for sure [20:55:44] deb: anything specific [20:55:53] I'm just interested to see if the rocks on the left were individual lava flows or whether that's fractures [20:56:32] Cool, thanks. [20:57:29] deb: to me, looks like this material may have been transported here from upslope [20:58:35] LAT :0.14822, LON : -176.45973, DEPTH : 1786.3731m, TEMP : 2.47533C, SAL : 34.62918 PSU, DO : 3.15666 mg/L [20:58:51] If these boulders came from upslope, they are some big, big slides. [20:59:55] pretty steep slope up ahead-just a thought, deb, but i'm also an ecologist :) [21:00:28] Judging by the openness of the coil I would say this was a baby I. magnispiralis [21:03:25] I love holothurians. They are just so cute. [21:03:36] LAT :0.14825, LON : -176.45967, DEPTH : 1785.2259m, TEMP : 2.47173C, SAL : 34.62789 PSU, DO : 3.13108 mg/L [21:06:03] but since those that can always take off, not so sure they love us back.... [21:06:30] Question for Geologists. is these lava flows are rather new? because we saw juv.Metallogorgia, juv. Iridogorgia and rather small bamboo but no large adults for them. [21:07:38] Good Q @Asako... [21:08:21] there is a mark on the right that looks like a rock left from there. [21:08:36] LAT :0.14832, LON : -176.45971, DEPTH : 1782.8368m, TEMP : 2.47815C, SAL : 34.62961 PSU, DO : 3.13865 mg/L [21:09:12] *please ignor my terrible grammar... [21:10:55] amandademopoulos leaves the room [21:13:37] LAT :0.14827, LON : -176.45961, DEPTH : 1776.3023m, TEMP : 2.48361C, SAL : 34.62676 PSU, DO : 3.14519 mg/L [21:13:42] amandademopoulos leaves the room [21:16:51] deborahglickson leaves the room [21:18:37] LAT :0.14834, LON : -176.45947, DEPTH : 1769.1389m, TEMP : 2.50985C, SAL : 34.62709 PSU, DO : 3.11667 mg/L [21:19:02] katharineweathers leaves the room [21:21:18] Nematocarcindae shrimp are in all oceans except the Arctic- the family consists of 39 species. Many described from mid-ocean ridges. [21:23:38] LAT :0.14841, LON : -176.45941, DEPTH : 1766.1172m, TEMP : 2.54036C, SAL : 34.62544 PSU, DO : 3.20619 mg/L [21:26:29] are any of those rock collecatable? [21:27:41] Hi Asako, it's hard to tell how old these are because they are encrusted with Mn. I'd support a rock collection. [21:28:39] LAT :0.14837, LON : -176.45939, DEPTH : 1755.6369m, TEMP : 2.57344C, SAL : 34.62281 PSU, DO : 2.99936 mg/L [21:29:03] shoreside: we are getting into position to try to find a rock to pick up [21:29:05] Good thinking. Might be a good place to get a rock. Might be some loose. [21:29:32] saw that too. saw poodle like metallogorgia [21:30:45] "sub adult" fantastic. let's see the oph [21:32:02] Ophiocreas like ophiuroid. classic posture. smooth dorsal arms. [21:33:39] LAT :0.14841, LON : -176.45935, DEPTH : 1760.3426m, TEMP : 2.58558C, SAL : 34.62265 PSU, DO : 3.09312 mg/L [21:37:40] This is gorgeous talus. [21:38:39] LAT :0.14840, LON : -176.45937, DEPTH : 1760.1170m, TEMP : 2.58165C, SAL : 34.62307 PSU, DO : 3.08649 mg/L [21:39:34] Yes! [21:43:17] D2_DIVE12_SPEC01GEO [21:43:21] nicely done. [21:43:40] LAT :0.14838, LON : -176.45933, DEPTH : 1760.2065m, TEMP : 2.57107C, SAL : 34.62236 PSU, DO : 3.07153 mg/L [21:44:09] leswatling leaves the room [21:44:56] Fantastic collection. [21:46:01] jillbourque leaves the room [21:48:41] LAT :0.14846, LON : -176.45940, DEPTH : 1754.3082m, TEMP : 2.58839C, SAL : 34.62160 PSU, DO : 3.11061 mg/L [21:49:06] no galatheids today...... [21:49:59] briankennedy leaves the room [21:52:14] crinoid I am guessing [21:52:20] before the zoom... [21:53:41] LAT :0.14843, LON : -176.45928, DEPTH : 1749.4773m, TEMP : 2.58429C, SAL : 34.63018 PSU, DO : 3.08561 mg/L [21:54:49] I My memory isn't great, but I think the 5-armed crinoids are more rare... [21:55:04] No stalk [21:55:50] christopherkelley leaves the room [21:56:34] That is a cool confluence Carl noted... [21:57:08] Hello Scott [21:57:30] Yo Timmy! [21:57:47] I meant "Timm-eh!" [21:58:28] A little shout-out for the South Park fans. [21:58:35] :-) [21:58:42] LAT :0.14847, LON : -176.45914, DEPTH : 1744.4707m, TEMP : 2.57484C, SAL : 34.62309 PSU, DO : 3.13198 mg/L [21:59:24] @Tim: I came across two different species of snake by the pond doing spring yard work today. Made me think Ineed to invite you to come down! :-) [21:59:27] no sea pens? sediment too unstable? [21:59:27] Hi Scott! [22:00:04] Be there in just a minute! Yikes! Hope you ran!!! [22:00:19] @Asako: Kon'nichiwa! [22:00:33] @Tim: yes - for my camera! [22:00:53] @Scott: Crazy you are. [22:01:12] No sea pens so far [22:01:20] Only soft coral has been Anthomastus on a large boulder [22:01:38] @Scott: its still morning here. so you can use Ohayo-gozaimasu instead :) [22:02:08] @Asako: so much I have to learn! [22:02:22] @Tim: you are not the first to suggest it. [22:02:57] @Scott: I'd rather eat a Riftia trophosome than be a few feet from a snake taking a picture... but you likely already knew that. [22:03:31] :-) [22:03:35] were snakes rare species? or common? [22:03:39] @Scott [22:03:42] LAT :0.14845, LON : -176.45910, DEPTH : 1739.0799m, TEMP : 2.54131C, SAL : 34.62449 PSU, DO : 3.03496 mg/L [22:03:49] @Asako: common around these parts! [22:03:59] would like to know when in the evolution of Baker Island did these large boulders come down. [22:04:20] This boulder face looks to have dropped the fragment in front of it [22:04:47] Beauty! [22:04:53] Hymenaster sp [22:05:06] just a transluscent one? [22:05:07] This star. I think we've seen this before in other years... [22:05:14] juvenile? [22:05:20] That was a cool sea star. [22:05:24] ...but I don't recall my Chris Mah or Chris Kelly education. [22:06:02] Someone on board can relay to Roland that I groaned a bit with his sun to star transition comment. [22:06:04] really cool seaster [22:06:39] Against the rock looks like an abstract starry night... [22:07:04] nice camera work. [22:07:13] well done [22:08:43] LAT :0.14841, LON : -176.45905, DEPTH : 1738.6760m, TEMP : 2.49150C, SAL : 34.62198 PSU, DO : 3.00000 mg/L [22:10:14] For similar Hymensater, see https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-70TTotBEcgI/V6uK8oHmUFI/AAAAAAAAO3M/S6y6KZ0cxiErNHZdBnr1pu6775jVYD6jwCLcB/s1600/Hymenaster%2Blight.jpg [22:10:32] From this Mah blog: http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/08/hymenaster-deep-sea-slime-stars-from.html [22:10:46] *Hymenaster! [22:11:17] great Thanks Scott. this is exactly the one! [22:13:44] LAT :0.14848, LON : -176.45890, DEPTH : 1728.7964m, TEMP : 2.49212C, SAL : 34.62839 PSU, DO : 3.16305 mg/L [22:15:22] deborahglickson leaves the room [22:16:33] Agree: small siphonophore [22:18:02] no associates [22:18:23] nice video [22:18:42] mashkoormalik leaves the room [22:18:44] LAT :0.14852, LON : -176.45886, DEPTH : 1721.8359m, TEMP : 2.47939C, SAL : 34.62826 PSU, DO : 3.17019 mg/L [22:19:24] Now there is a desktop background image! [22:19:33] That is one awesome video team out there! [22:19:35] I was thinking the same thig! [22:19:48] I've got to get that image into my next lecture on octocorals. [22:20:11] Looked like a disguised octopus [22:22:37] crab behind the sponge....or sponge on a crab. [22:22:51] sponge on a crab.... [22:22:58] Now don't go betting your life on live streaming video! [22:23:19] But I do agree and think you would (fortunately) wein thaht bet. [22:23:28] *win that bet [22:23:30] yeah the internet isn't very forgiving [22:23:40] That was a first for me. Looked like the sponge was a small pheronematid [22:23:44] LAT :0.14855, LON : -176.45878, DEPTH : 1714.9567m, TEMP : 2.49274C, SAL : 34.62798 PSU, DO : 3.10902 mg/L [22:24:45] @Chris: the sponge was a first, or its being carried by a crab? [22:27:03] Pseudoanthomastus? [22:27:23] with 2 polychaete associates- great video [22:27:36] That is just fantastic video! [22:27:55] Anthomastus tahinodous [22:28:07] tahinodus [22:28:10] Carried by the crab I think. This is Anthomastus tahinodus [22:28:45] LAT :0.14864, LON : -176.45869, DEPTH : 1707.9593m, TEMP : 2.48710C, SAL : 34.62769 PSU, DO : 3.17847 mg/L [22:28:56] Scott, I have never seen that type of sponge being carried by anything before. [22:28:59] I'll correct my SeaScribe notation on species [22:29:34] @Chris: understood. Always something new to see in the sea. [22:30:14] Plus now I'm here... ;-) [22:30:35] That whip took quite a jog some years ago... [22:30:59] Note the swelling in the axis we just passed... [22:31:10] Scott, with your help, we will make the deep sea great again. [22:31:14] I think that may be a sign of regrowth... [22:31:31] ...deposition of ... [22:31:33] oh wow! [22:31:40] I need to watch, not type [22:31:46] sclrerites bizarre in there. [22:31:56] There is something majorly freaky going on there [22:32:16] scott: majorly freaky, for sure :) [22:32:21] I wonder how much of this is connected to that growth jog... [22:32:38] Plenty of eggs in polyps [22:33:08] seen that growth job several times during this dive [22:33:46] LAT :0.14867, LON : -176.45863, DEPTH : 1701.3256m, TEMP : 2.49071C, SAL : 34.63279 PSU, DO : 3.16557 mg/L [22:33:52] Sop earlier - before getting overly verklempt - I was going to say ity appears regrowth in this colony (or colonies, if one settled on another) had caused the part near the jog to have carnate depsited on top of older carboate. [22:34:10] *carbonate [22:34:26] Need to learn to type without the hunt-and-peck [22:34:45] Wow, @Scott. I'm trying to decipher that... [22:35:00] Anyhow, that was a fascinating observation that I look forward to following up on. [22:35:11] @Deb: ha! Thanks. Stick it to me. [22:35:35] christopherkelley leaves the room [22:35:47]