Keywords: okeanos explorer okeanosexplorer rov ocean exploration noaa credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) The branching arms of a large Basket Star. Soon after this they discovered an entire field of these animals on the sea floor at a depth of about 350 meters, which came as quite a surprise. Dive 12: Zealandia Bank, 02 May 2016 "ROV Deep Discoverer is being deployed for dive 12 on Zealandia Bank. The purpose of today’s dive is to survey and characterize bottomfish fishery habitat and explore for high density communities of deep-sea corals – precious corals in particular. The dive will start at ~650m and transit up a ridge feature." oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/welcome.html credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) The branching arms of a large Basket Star. Soon after this they discovered an entire field of these animals on the sea floor at a depth of about 350 meters, which came as quite a surprise. Dive 12: Zealandia Bank, 02 May 2016 "ROV Deep Discoverer is being deployed for dive 12 on Zealandia Bank. The purpose of today’s dive is to survey and characterize bottomfish fishery habitat and explore for high density communities of deep-sea corals – precious corals in particular. The dive will start at ~650m and transit up a ridge feature." oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/welcome.html |