wow.
Talk about Dr. Seuss knowing things that nobody else could have known:
The PNW's got some crazy little piggies down deep:
Go see the action:
Thanks, NEPTUNE (North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments.)
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Claudette
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This little piggy went to market.....
Talk about Dr. Seuss knowing things that nobody else could have known:
The PNW's got some crazy little piggies down deep:
Go see the action:
Thanks, NEPTUNE (North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments.)
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Claudette
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein
Fastest at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFxjmr5mW8#!
Wow - it's like they have six elephant trunks to feed themselves with!
oh great.
after being immune to iPad lust up 'til now..... thanks, Canada:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/SujdEtCfWI0
The YouTube channel for NEPTUNE Canada is stunning.
I so need to go diving....
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Claudette
P.S. Thanks, Jax. I fixed the link to embed the video.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein
That was cool! Thanks for sharing Claudette! Weird wild world!!!
I was looking at these things... and I'm thinking, "wow... they'd be cool to shoot next time I'm in Seattle...."
Then I saw the opening for the vid.... 7,200+ feet deep?!?!?!?
Lynne may need to sling an 80 to have enough gas to dive that....
:-D
-K
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We used to pull these up from time to time on our bottom trawls when I worked on a research vessel. Awesome to see them in action.
GET OUT!!Originally Posted by deadbilly
How large are they? There's no scale on the video.
What the heck does this thing look like when you haul it up from 7000+ FSW?
So cool you do that.
Tell me more!!!
-K
You've got some new momentum - you better keep on going
Tomorrow soon will be your yesterday
You've got some new momentum - you better keep on going
You've got to move to make it all the way... - NM
Aren't those spidery starfish about 5" in diameter?
From what I recall, they're about the size of a fist (possibly two). If they don't get mangled in the net, they look just about like what you see in the video (maybe a little chubbier), since there's no gaseous space in them to expand or get distorted as they're pulled up. I didn't watch the whole video, so I don't know if it mentions this, but sea pigs are Holothurians (cucumbers). What they're doing with the sediment is the same thing that the orange embedded Cucumaria cucumbers do in California: grab stuff with tentacles and shove it in their mouth. The ones we got were a little more bulbous than in the video. It's worth noting that this was in the Southern Ocean, so almost literally a world away from where these guys were filmed. Interesting to imagine that the abyssal plains may be somewhat homogenous. For reference, I think (not certain) those two green laser dots are 10cm apart in the video.
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