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Glowing
red eruption.
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Brimstone
Pit Eruption
This
is the first time that glowing lava has ever been witnessed from
a submarine volcanic eruption! In this case, the lava is rising
in the vent so fast that a small glimpse of red glow can be seen
intermittently before it crusts over or is blown apart. What a sight!
Do you think the scientists were a little excited?
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Shrimp
hitching a crab for a ride.
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Crab
Ride
One of the carnivorous shrimp resident at NW Rota-1 volcano catches
a ride on a crab that is passing by.
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Molten
sulfur lake.
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Sulfur
Lake
Molten sulfur and volcanic gases are bubbling out of a vent along
the far wall of Sulfur Cauldron and keep the partially crusted surface
of the pond undulating. Sometimes the heaving is so great that pieces
of crust near the vent break off, tip on end, and are pulled downward
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Flatfish
at Daikoku.
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Flatfish
A dense group of tonguefish on the sedimented seafloor at Daikoku.
The fish are more active than they appear at first glance.
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Sulfur
pools .
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Sulfur
Pools
When Jason tries to sample a rock, it sinks through the thin crust
on the lake of molten sulfur and a crab barely survives the experience!
At the end of the dive we found that part of the Jason frame had
also broken through this crust and was coated in sulfur.
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Tropical
life at shallow seamount.
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Tropical
Life
A multitude of tropical life exists at the shallow Aquarium site.
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Mussels
and shrimp.
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7.3 MB Windows Media: 6.5
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Mussels
In
addition to the dense colonies of mussels at NW Eifuku, there are
also the same two species of shrimp that we found at NW Rota-1 (the
volcano we found to be actively erupting). However, at NW Eifuku
the two shrimp species live in different habitats separated from
one another, whereas at NW Rota-1 they are found.
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Flying
squat lobsters.
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Flying
Squat Lobsters
Squat lobsters (galatheids) in "flight" at Seamount X.
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Snails,
crabs,and shrimp.
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Snails
and shrimp
Intensely shimmering water vents from the seafloor atop Forecast
seamount. The temperature probe on Jason II measured temperatures
as high as 200 degrees C at nearby vents. Snails and shrimp have
colonized the site and a grazing on chemosynthetic bacteria. Jason's
suction sampler is used to collect some of these animals for analysis
in the lab on board the ship.
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