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View of the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy from the ice. |
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US Coast Guard Cutter HEALY operates with a compliment of two Coast Guard HH-65B Dolphin Helicopters in addition to Healy's normal equipment and crew. All personnel and scientific equipment for the 2005 Hidden Ocean cruise are brought aboard exclusively by helicopter. |
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Healy's Bow breaks through Arctic ice! |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Hymenodora glacialis, the only pelagic shrimp known to inhabit the Canada Basin. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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A divers view of the underside of the ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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A divers view of the underside of the ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Ice Divers Katrin Iken and Elisabeth Calvert descend below the ice through a hole in a melt pond while Shawn Harper teds the safety line. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Jeremy Potter tends the safety line for divers beneath the ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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The science team descends onto the ice below in a manlift. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Scientists work on the ice in foggy weather. The "manlift" in the foreground , raised and lowered by one of Healy's cranes, is their transport to and from the Healy. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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One of Healy's cranes lowers a scientist and equipment onto the ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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The comb jelly Mertensia ovum is fishing for food under Arctic ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Mike Nicholson (left) and Joe Caba (right) move the ROV into position for deployment. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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The multinet, a device which captures small creatures in the water at different depths of the water column, is deployed off the back of the Healy. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Nathan Buck works on preparing his Automated Trace Element samplers to collect water at different depths for trace metal testing. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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An undescribed deep-water species of Larvacean. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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A young mother and her cub look curiously towards the Healy. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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The photoplatform is deployed into icy waters. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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View of Arctic ice through one of Healy's portholes. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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The ROV begins its descent into the deep waters of the Canada Basin. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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The ROV is brought back on board after a dive deep into the Canada Basin. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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In many species of copepods, males are rare and short-lived. This male of Scaphocalanus acrocephalus is readily distinguished from the female by his antennae and tail. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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A sea star brought up from a benthic ROV dive. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Ice Diver Shawn Harper shoots video of creatures living underneath the ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Sue Moore uses a hydrophone to listen for whales and other marine mammals. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Rolf Gradinger works on an ice core while Mette Nielson takes measurements on a core already brought to the surface. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Katrin Iken uses a transect to measure the density of amphipods and other creatures living on sea-ice. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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Scientists work on ice over the deep Arctic Ocean. |
Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow, Alaska |
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In order to maximize the amount of information collected during the research cruise, scientists participating in the Life on the Edge 2004 mission used a variety of nets and traps in addition to the JSL submersible. |
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patches of sargassum floating at the surface are often home to a large diversity of marine animals. Andrea Quattrini, a technician with Steve W. Ross at UNC-Wilmington, passes time between submersible dives by collecting sargassum for later analysis. |
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Martha Nizinski, a scientist from the NMFS Systematics Laboratory, closely examines a piece of Lophelia. She hopes to learn more about the types of marine organisms that live in and around the deep-sea corals. |
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Beryx decadactylus (alfonsino) hovering around a large Lophelia coral. Many fishes use the deep coral habitat in a similar way as fishes in shallow coral systems, and this is a major focus of our research. |
North Carolina Continental Slope |
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The 4-person Johnson Sea-Link (JSL) submersible is equipped with a variety of tools that scientists use to collect samples from the ocean depths. |
North Carolina Continental Slope |
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The Johnson Sea-Link (JSL) submersible is typically launched two times per day from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution's R/V Seward Johnson. |
North Carolina Continental Slope |
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Deep-sea corals form important habitats for unique and diverse array of marine life. Live bushes of the deep-sea coral, Lophelia, may act like island oases in the deep sea. |
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This small chunk of Lophelia coral lives in almost utter darkness hundreds of feet below the sea surface. Lophelia has been found to grow in massive "thickets" is some areas off the coast of North Carolina. |
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The Life on the Edge 2004 mission has collected a diverse array of invertebrate life around deep-sea corals. Squat lobsters are just one of the many types of organisms that use deep-sea corals for shelter. |
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Galatheid crab (possibly a Eumunida species), showing the extremely long claws they possess that enable them to cling to the inside of the suction sampler so tenaciously. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 21 |
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Close-up of photoreceptors of crab collected from 1800 feet. The enormous size of these eyes suggests that they are adapted for extremely high sensitivity to light. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 21 |
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Another species of galatheid (squat lobster) showing distinct eyeglow, which results when light hits the reflecting tapetum behind the retina. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 21 |
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Unidentified sargassum shrimp bearing two colors of fluorescent patches. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 22 |
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Fluorescent chain cat shark at about 1820' feet deep. This shark was no more than a meter long and "posed" for a couple of minutes lying still on the bottom near the submersible. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 22 |
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The exuberant science crew watching video footage of the chain cat shark. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 22 |
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Zooanthid polyps under fluorescent light setting (this is the blue image) and under white light. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 22 |
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Zooanthid polyps under fluorescent light setting under blue light. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 22 |
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Dr. Mikhail Matz checking his yellow submersible light filters prior to launch. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 22 |
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Dr. Justin Marshall with slime extruded from the pores of the hagfish. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 23 |
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The six-gill shark, approximately 8 feet long. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 23 |
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Shark attracted by the fish pieces attached to the tip of the EITS frame and in its bait cage. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 23 |
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Six-gill shark swimming in for an inspection of the Eye-in-the-Sea. |
Gulf of Mexico 2005 August 23 |